By: Murtala Issah
The Ghana Police Service has interdicted Corporal Shani Abdullai, for possessing restricted pharmaceutical substances at Kpalsi, a suburb of Tamale in the Northern Region.
A statement from the Police Service explained that, Cpl Shani’s interdiction is to pave the way for thorough investigation into his conduct in line with Police Service regulations.
Corporal Shani was arrested by a citizen-led taskforce fighting the sale of illegal and highly addictive opioids in Tamale.
In a video that has gone viral on social media, in the Northern Region, the police officer confessed to the taskforce that he was involved in the sale of the substance.
He blamed economic hardship for his involvement in the sale of drugs.
Over the last two months, the police service in the Northern region have cracked the whip on the sale of restricted drugs. At least 7 persons have so far been convicted and sentenced to the payment of fines and serving of prison sentences.
Last month, more than five hundred thousand Ghana cedis worth of restricted drugs, including marijuana, popularly called weed, tramadol, “red” , “wee chocolate,” “wee toffee” and some aphrodisiacs were seized and destroyed by the Narcotics Control Commission at the Tamale Landfill site at Gbalahi.
The arrest of a police officer introduces a new dimension to ongoing efforts to clear the city of these drugs and curtail growing menace of drug abuse in the Northern Regional capital.
