Kumasi, Feb. 6, GNA - The police in Kumasi on Friday arrested Amadu Boku, 38, from Bawku in the Upper East Region, for attempting to smuggle a quantity of dried leaves suspected to be Indian hemp into the Kumasi Central Prisons.

He supposedly concealed the leaves in holes he drilled in two tubers of yams and attempted to give them to Mohammed Rufai, a suspect remanded for armed robbery.

Deputy Director of Prisons, Mr Oppong Kofi Tweneboah-Kodua, the Regional Commander, briefing newsmen on the case, said Boku was at the Central Prisons during the visiting hours and requested to see Rufai and to give him some items including two yams and charcoal. Mr Tweneboah-Koduah said the officer on duty, Phaneel Chachavuvu, became suspicious of Boku and broke the yams and found the dried leaves in them.

Mr Tweneboah-Koduah said, Boku, during interrogation told the officer that a woman whose name he did not mention, but said, stayed at Sepe-Buokrom gave the items to him (Boku) to be delivered to Rufai. The Regional Prisons Commander said the suspect would be handed over to the police for investigation and prosecution.