There was drama at Ghana's main gateway, the Kotoka International Airport last Tuesday night when a detachment of Customs officials gave a fleeing drug-trafficker a hot chase. The suspect, Akwasi Peprah, 39, was eventually over-powered by the Customs officers who were faster.

Akwasi Peprah, who claimed he is domiciled in Italy, was returning to his base after a two-month holiday in Ghana, but whilst in a queue waiting to go through departure formalities, he sensed that the officials had mounted surveillance on him and therefore took to his heels. People who had gathered at the Airport to meet their relatives joined in the chase.

After he was arrested, Akwasi was sent to the 37 Military Hospital where X-ray on him revealed that he had swallowed 24 pellets of oval-shaped narcotic drugs. Peprah later confessed to swallowing 32 pellets and not 24. He is reported to have expelled 11 of the pellets after taking a purgative and is expected to bring out the rest later.