Missing Cocaine Has Street Value Of US$3,000

The 100.10 grammes of suspected cocaine which went missing at the Aflao border post on June 7, has an estimated street value of US$3,000.

A security source told the Graphic Online today that the value could go up considering other factors.

There has been controversy surrounding the missing of the suspected narcortic drugs with the customs Division of the GRA and the Nacortics Control Board (NACOB) engaged in a blame game.

The effort to find the whereabouts of the missing 100.10 grammes of a whitish substance suspected to be cocaine which was part of the illegal drug seized at the Kpoglu Border in the Ketu South Municipality in the Volta Region on June 5, this year is turning into a blame game.

The two institutions at the centre of the saga — the Narcotics Control Board (NACOB) and the Customs Division of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) are at each others throat as to which of them should be held liable.

In the latest twist, the GRA said it had no hand in the missing parcel and that NACOB was on a deliberate mission to blame the division, when the reality pointed to the contrary.

Reacting to assertions made by the acting Director-General of NACOB, Mr Francis Kofi Torkornoo, in an interview he granted the Daily Graphic, during which he brought out news about the missing parcel, the GRA said: “If anything, it is NACOB that has questions to answer over the missing drug because of the attitude of its officers in the events.”