The Ghana Police Service has arrested 50 suspects in an intelligence-led anti-narcotics operation carried out at the Madina Market enclave in the Greater Accra Region.
The operation, conducted on Thursday, May 7, by the Inspector-General of Police Special Operations Team, targeted the supply and distribution of narcotic substances in the area.
Addressing a press briefing on Friday, Director-General of Police Operations, COP Emmanuel Teye Cudjoe, disclosed that the suspects include 46 males and four females.
According to him, preliminary screening showed that 25 of the suspects are Ghanaians, while the others comprise 13 Nigerians, nine Nigeriens, one Malian, one Togolese and one Burkinabe national.
Police investigations also identified 26-year-old Abigail Oku and Nigerian national Mohammed Zaya as alleged kingpins within the criminal network operating in the enclave.
COP Cudjoe further named Yousef Abubakar, 25, and Ahmadu Alfani, 43, both Nigerians, as shop owners allegedly involved in the sale and distribution of narcotic substances.
Items retrieved during the operation include 230 boxes of tramadol valued at 130 thousand cedis, 49 boxes of wrappers worth 26 thousand cedis, 10 parcels of Indian hemp valued at 15 thousand cedis, 13 boxes of crashes, mobile phones, scissors, knives and other suspected narcotics-related materials.
Police say the estimated street value of the recovered exhibits is about 200 thousand cedis.
All 50 suspects, together with the retrieved items, have been transferred to the National Operations Directorate Headquarters to assist with ongoing investigations and further action.
