The Particular Operations Group of the Inspector Common of Police has arrested 50 suspects following an intelligence agency-led anti-drug operation carried out within the Madina Market enclave within the Accra metropolitan space on Might 7, 2026.
Forty-six males and 4 ladies had been arrested. Preliminary examination of the suspects revealed a transnational legal community together with 25 Ghanaians, 13 Nigerians, 9 Nigerians, one Malian, one Togolese and one Burkinabe.
Two of the suspects, 26-year-old Abigail Oko and Nigerian nationwide Mohammed Zaya, have been recognized as key figures within the legal community.
Moreover, Yusif Abubakar, 25, and Ahmadu Alfani, 43, each Nigerian nationals, had been recognized as shopkeepers engaged within the sale and distribution of narcotic substances inside the busy market.
The operation yielded a big amount of unlawful medication and associated supplies. Gadgets recovered embrace 230 containers of Tramadol value GH¢130,000. 49 containers of wrapping paper value GH¢26,000. 10 plots of Indian hemp value GH¢15,000. 13 containers of crusher. cell phone. scissors. knife. and different suspected drug-related substances.
The estimated road worth of the recovered reveals reaches 200,000 Gigawon.
All 50 suspects, together with the recovered reveals, had been transferred to the Nationwide Operations Directorate headquarters for additional investigation and essential measures.
The operation was one of many largest single anti-drug operations within the Madinah area this 12 months and highlighted the IGP’s particular operations group’s concentrate on market facilities and public areas the place drug trafficking is changing into more and more brazen.
The Ghana Police Service has suggested that it’ll proceed focused operations towards the availability, distribution and peddling of narcotic substances in markets, communities and public areas throughout the nation.
The Inspector Common of Police recommended all officers concerned in these operations and mentioned their dedication and professionalism remained central to the success of this drive’s crime-fighting efforts. Police additionally expressed their gratitude to the general public who proceed to assist operations with dependable and well timed data.
Authorities have indicated that the suspects will face courtroom proceedings as soon as the investigation is full, and efforts proceed to hint the in depth provide community that feeds into the Madinah market drug commerce.
