Goodies trial ajdourned to October 30

Monday, October 27, 2008 (Page 55)

THE narcotic trial involving the Managing Director of Goodies Music Productions, Isaac Abeidu Aidoo, aka Goodies, has been adjourned to October 30, 2008.
Goodies allegedly swallowed 80 pellets of cocaine and attempted to smuggle them to the United Kingdom on April 23, 2008 but he was arrested at the Kotoka International Airport (KIA).
The circuit court hearing the case adjourned it to enable the new prosecutor assigned to it to study the record of proceedings before continuing with the prosecution.
At the court’s sitting in Accra yesterday, the new prosecutor, Mr Paul Asibi Abariga, an Assistant State Attorney, informed the court that he had been assigned to the case because his senior colleague, Mrs Valerie Amartey, a Chief State Attorney, was currently on vacation.
He, therefore, prayed the court to give him a short period to study the record of proceedings.
The court, presided over by Mr Mahamadu Iddrisu, granted his request and accordingly adjourned the case to October 30, 2008.
A third prosecution witness is expected to testify at the next adjourned date.
Goodies, on July 8, 2008, pleaded not guilty to the possession of narcotics and the court has since remanded him in prison custody.
According to the prosecution, about 10.45 p.m. on April 23, this year, when Goodies arrived at the KIA to board a Ghana International Airlines flight to London, operatives of the Narcotics Control Board (NACOB) suspected him of carrying drugs in his stomach.
Goodies was, therefore, escorted to the 37 Military Hospital for an X-ray, which revealed that he had some foreign materials in his stomach.
He was subsequently arrested and put under surveillance and, in the process, he expelled 80 pellets of a whitish substance suspected to be cocaine.
Goodies informed the police during interrogation that one Abdul Haid, a musician residing at East Legon, Accra, had given him the drugs to be delivered to one Willie for a fee of $3,000.