SECURITY agencies in Takoradi are looking for substances suspected to be cocaine which were believed to have been concealed in two bags of sugar smuggled out of the Takoradi harbour last Saturday.
According to a a joint team of security personnel comprising BNI and CID personnel, the consignment was suspected to be part of the hundreds of bags of sugar which were offloaded into a warehouse (Shed B) at the Takoradi Port.
They are also said to be part of the consignment of sugar which was discovered at the Tema Harbour, among which were found a quantity of cocaine.
Port sources told the Daily Graphic that the two bags were smuggled out in the vehicle of a clearing agent, who told the police that he took them as protocol for a senior officer of the Takoradi branch of the Customs, Excise and Preventive Service (CEPS).
When the said CEPS officer’s residence was searched by a team from National Security the two bags were retrieved and the content was found to be sugar.
However, the said clearing agent, whose name was only given as Richmond, is currently been held by National Security together with the two bags of sugar as exhibit.
Truckloads of sugar waiting to be transported out of the twin-city of Sekondi/Takoradi are currently being detained at the Takoradi Port.
According to a police source, the two bags were among hundreds of bags of sugar in the warehouse at the port but their whereabouts could not be ascertained.
The police source said they could not tell when the consignment arrived in the country, since the content of the vessel that brought it was quickly offloaded into the warehouse.
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