Five cultivators of 80 hectares cannabis farm remanded
The five were arrested last Saturday by officials of the Forestry Commission for cultivating cannabis in the Obuo Akroma Forest Reserve.
The Donkorkrom Magistrate Court in the Eastern Region has remanded into police custody, five persons, including an agricultural science teacher, arrested for cultivating an 80 hectares cannabis farm.
The five, science teacher Michael Anakpo, alleged to be the leader in charge of the farm, Normenyo Blewu, Korsi Mawuena, Charles Kale, and Emmanuel Kojo were arrested last Saturday by officials of the Forestry Commission for cultivating cannabis in the Obuo Akroma Forest Reserve.
Authorities said they retrieved both big and mini sacks of the harvested cannabis, plastic water containers filled with harvested cannabis, cutlasses, and many others.
Their pleas were however not taken by the court presided over by Augustine Akusa-am. They are to make their next court appearance on August 17, 2022.
Meanwhile, the Supreme Court on July 27, 2022, declared section 43 (1) of the Narcotics Control Commission Act 2020, Act 1019 unconstitutional, null and void.
The section allowed the “Minister, on the recommendation of the Commission, to grant a license for the cultivation of cannabis which is not more than 0.3 per cent content on a dry weight basis for industrial purposes for obtaining fiber or seed for medicinal purposes.”
