Four members of a drug trafficking ring operating between East and West Africa have been arrested at the Kotoka International Airport (KIA) in Accra.
The suspects were arrested in two separate operations, leading to the seizure of 13 kilogrammes of heroin with a street value of over $1 million.
Ten parcels of the drug were discovered in an enamel bowl, while seven were found under the cushion of a baby pram.
The suspects are Friday Ogbonna Icheogu, 43; his brother, Christian Chukwudi Icheogu, 36, both Nigerians; Mabada Zanaka Zamzam, alias Zam Nabadda, 36, and Charles Ejiku Gasper, 41, both Ugandans.
In an interview with the Daily Graphic in Accra, the Deputy Executive Secretary of the Narcotics Control Board (NACOB), Nii Lantey Blankson, said on March 8, 2015 officials from NACOB, acting on intelligence, arrested the Ugandan woman, Mabada Zanaka Zamzam, at the KIA.
He indicated that Zamzam arrived at the KIA around 11 a.m. on that day onboard an Ethiopian Airlines flight from Uganda.
He said unknown to Zamzam, the officials had mounted surveillance on her. After she had picked her two luggages and headed outside, she was met by the two Nigerians at the entrance of the Arrival Hall.
Nii Blankson said the three persons exchanged pleasantries and thereafter Ogbonna introduced himself as the contact person she was supposed to meet.
Thereafter, one of the Nigerians stopped a taxi and put the luggage in it, but before they could enter the taxi, NACOB officials arrested them and took them to the head office of the board.
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