The Narcotics Control Board (NACOB) has begun the process to confiscate the properties of Nayele Ametefe, who has been sentenced to eight years, eight months for trafficking 12.5 kilogramme of cocaine to London.
Officials of NACOB last Monday posted notices of confiscation on Nayele’s residence at East Legon in Accra as required by PNDC Law 263. The law empowers NACOB officials who reasonably suspect that a property was acquired with drug money to confiscate it.
However, the family of Nayele resisted the action of the NACOB officials, leading to a scuffle between them.
A family member of Nayele, believed to be her mother is reported to have told the NACOB officials that they did not have any basis to confiscate the property because at the time they posted the notice the case was still being heard by a court in London.
- Daily Graphic