Tema, Nov. 26, GNA – A forty-five year old unemployed man who has turned the premises of the Twedaase Junior High School in Tema into an Indian hemp smoking place has been remanded into prison custody by the Tema Circuit court ‘A’. Afodey Botchwey pleaded guilty with explanation to the charge of unlawfully possessing narcotic, but the court presided over by Mrs Lauren Owusu entered the plea of not guilty for him. Botchwey would re-appear in court on December 04.
Chief Inspector Mary Assunta, prosecuting said at about 1000 hours on November 15 this year, a teacher and some students of the school accompanied the suspect to the police and lodged a complaint that he was disrupting their classes.
The prosecutor said the complainants told the police that Botchwey was smoking a substance suspected to be Indian hemp behind the window of one of the classrooms leading to the pollution of the classroom that disrupted the classes. Chief Inspector Assunta added that, the complainants apprehended and handed him together with the substance to the police.
Source: GhanaWeb
