An Aflao Circuit Court presided over by Mr. Ali Baba Abature has sentenced a 31-year old man to 12 years in hard labour for allegedly poses as a security person and possessed “wee” and an alcoholic beverage also laced with the substance.

The accused, Edem Agutsi pleaded guilty to the charges.

Prosecuting, Police Detective Mr. Michael Akemo told the court that at 1300 hours on July 12, this year, the police followed a tip-off that some fake security men were searching and robbing travelers of monies at Beat 11 entry point and Agutsi was arrested.

He said the suspect denied any wrong doing, resisted arrest and threatened he would only die with the policemen.

Mr Akemo said during interrogation, Agutsi took to his heels towards the border, in an attempt to escape to the Togolese side, but he was re-arrested.

He said the police found substances believed to be “wee” seeds and an alcoholic beverage laced with “wee” in a bag belonging to him with an amount of CFA80,000.

He said Agutsi denied that he was extorting money from travelers, but claimed the “wee” was given to him by a friend, called Emmanuel, and that he was always agitated to “work hard” on the frontier helping travelers to cross the border when he took the “wee”-laced beverage.