Following the Attorney General's involvement, the Upper West Regional Command of the Narcotics Control Commission (NACOC) reports that the local police have assisted with their inquiries.
NACOC claimed that the police had withheld information about the amount of some compressed substances believed to be marijuana.
A combined police and immigration unit discovered the drugs at Leiro in the Upper West Region.
Ishaq Bakuri, the regional director of NACOC, stated that they now have access to the aforementioned chemicals and are anticipating a police report on the operation.
"Since we filed a letter and are now awaiting an official answer, we are currently awaiting a report. The situation is that we went to the immigration and were given access, so we looked them over, tallied the chemicals they had, and can attest to that. Since we had early difficulties getting to the drugs with the police, we had to ask the State Attorney for help because we had been collaborating with them and they were the ones who handled the prosecution when it was required, according to the Upper West Regional Director of NACOC.
NACOC had earlier charged that the police had understated the amount of compressed substances believed to be marijuana that had been seized on December 1, 2022, in Liero, a village in the Sissala West area, by a joint police-immigration tax squad.
A swoop by the patrol team, which consisted of police and immigration officers acting on information, discovered that most of the rooms in the home of a guy (name withheld) in Liero were filled with sacks containing what was thought to be marijuana.
In a statement, NACOC stated that while 981 packets of the suspected chemical were held in immigration's control, numerous additional parcels were given to the police.
The materials in the possession of the Immigration Services have now been verified by the Commission, according to a statement from NACOC. Despite repeated requests, the Police refused to provide the Commission with information about the amount and location of custody of the narcotics mentioned here.