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British cocaine girls' verdict, too lenient– Obiri Boahene
Accra, Jan 30, GNA– Nana Obiri Boahene,
Minister of State at the Ministry of Interior, on Wednesday
said the one year sentence each on the two British teen
girls caught with six kilograms of cocaine at the Kotoka
International Airport was too lenient even though the court
acted within the confines of the law.
He observed that the one month to three years sentence
proposed by the law for such juvenile drug offenders needed
to be looked at again to ensure that stiffer and more
deterring sentences were slapped on such offenders.
Nana Boahene who said these in an interview with the Ghana
News Agency (GNA) in Accra on Wednesday, indicated that
whereas he was not questioning the verdict of the judiciary
on the case, it would have been more deterring if they had
been given the girls the maximum three year sentence.
Commenting on rumours that Assistant Commissioner of Police
(ACP) Kofi Boakye, former Director General of Operations of
the Ghana Police Service (GPS), was still on the payroll of
the GPS and was being sponsored to study law at the Law
School by the GPS, Nana Boahene said he would check on the
speculation and take the necessary action.
The Minister of State, however, confirmed that ASP Boakye
was still in the Law School but he could not confirm whether
his fees were being paid by the GPS.
Nana Boahene said he was aware that the Police Council held
an emergency meeting recently but he was yet to receive a
report on whether the issue about ACP Boakye was on the
agenda.
He also expressed regret over the recent development in the
GPS about the missing parcels of illegal drugs in the
custody of the Police Criminal Investigation Department.
Nana Boahen said a committee had been set up to investigate
the matter and his office would take the appropriate action
if the report comes out.
He urged the public to consider the matter as the arrest of
a bad nut in the GPS, just as there were bad nuts in every
other profession, adding however that the matter was
worrying.
GNA
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