Officials of the Narcotic Control Board (NABCOB) and head heads of the other security asgencies yesterday held a marathon meeting to deliberate on the 164 killogrammes cocaine seized at the Tema Port the previous day.
The decision was prompted by reports that after the first operation, which led to the seizure of the drugs, a sack containing a substance suspected to be cocaine was thrown into the sea.
Initially, a quantity of the substance was found on the vessel concealed in five sacks, weighing 32kg, 34kg, 32kg, 33kg and 33kg respectively, and containing sugar in Hatch One (1).
But fresh information available to the paper indicates that after the arrest of the vessel last Tuesday, another sack was found at about 8:30 p.m floating on the sea around where the vessel was being held.
The Chronicle learnt that when the security chiefs had left the scene, and were holding a meeting on what to do, leaving behind a skeleton staff around the area, some of the crew on the vessel threw a sack into the sea on the blind side of the security men.
As a result of the discovery, the security chiefs have cause to believe that there could be more of the substance on the vessel, hence the meeting.
The meeting is therefore to establish the next line of action, as far as the investigation of the case was concerned.
St. Efrem, this reporter gathered, left the shores of Brazil enroute to Ghana on August 13 and arrived on August 21, but because there were many vessels berthed in the breakwaters waiting to enter the port, it had to wait until last Tuesday.
But, before it could even enter the port of Tema, officials from the Narcotic Control Board, Ghana Navy, National Security, and the port security got wind and lay in ambush waiting for it.
Further investigations show that the deceased Pilipino on board the vessel, who was born in 1960, was allegedly murdered for disclosing to the Ghanaian officials the presence of the substance on the vessel.
Investigations revealed that the man was not happy about the deal, and might have hinted the Ghanaian security.
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