October 8, 2009 (Page 3)
THE trial of the Chief Executive Officer of Exopa Modelling Agency, Sima Ibrahim, for allegedly attempting to export substances believed to be narcotic was yesterday adjourned to October 12, 2009.
The adjournment resulted from the fact that the court hearing the case did not sit.
A crowd, many of whom included models of his agency, thronged the court premises to show solidarity.
Court clerks gave the new date to prosecutors and counsel for the accused person.
On September 23, 2009, the prosecution had sought an adjournment to await the final report on the suspected substances which were found on Ibrahim from the Ghana Standards Board (GSB) but counsel for the accused person, Mr Kwame Boafo Akuffo, did not take kindly to the adjournment, saying that at the previous sitting the court had been made aware that investigations had been completed to pave way for the case to proceed.
Ibrahim is in prison custody on two counts of attempted exportation of narcotic drugs and possession of narcotic drugs without licence.
He has pleaded not guilty to the charges at the Accra Fast Track High Court.
The court, presided over by Mr Justice Charles Quist, ordered the police to continue to hold a Range Rover vehicle, which they impounded from the residence of the model, until otherwise directed.
Ibrahim, 39, was arrested at the Kotoka International Airport about 11 p.m. on September 7, 2009 while he was going through departure formalities to travel to Germany.
The prosecution told the court that the accused person is also a model and that he had arrived at the Kotoka International Airport (KIA) on September 7, 2009 to board a flight to Germany.
According to the prosecution, while the accused person was going through departure formalities, officials of the Narcotic Control Board (NACOB) suspected him of carrying narcotic drugs and subsequently invited him for interrogation.
It said the NACOB officials called for the accused person’s bag and when it was searched, four tubers of yam were found in it and that aroused their suspicion.
The prosecution told the court that when the tubers of yam were examined, it was detected that they had been cut open and five kilogrammes of a whitish substance suspected to be narcotic drugs concealed in them.
It stated that the accused person admitted ownership of the yams and said they had been given to him by someone he named as Salifu for delivery to another person in Germany for a fee of 3,000 Euros.
It said when the accused person’s residence was searched, items including a bread knife and glue suspected to have been used by him were retrieved.
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