A worker of the Ghana Post Company Limited, Stalin Tekutey Nartey, has been arrested for allegedly using his position at the General Post Office to import narcotic drugs from Pakistan into the country. Also arrested was his accomplice, Joseph Nortey, a clearing agent, who is alleged to be in charge of the distribution of the suspected drugs. Nartey is said to have told the police that last year he imported seven consignments of the drugs using the same method of importing them, which were parcelled as Arabic books from Pakistan. The two were on Monday remanded by the Accra Circuit Court, presided over by Mr Eric Kyei Baffour, when they were arraigned on one count of importation of drugs without licence from the Minister of Health. The suspects pleaded not guilty and they will reappear on September 16, 2011. Prosecuting, Deputy Superintendent of Police Mr Kofi Blagodzi said Nartey worked with the Mail Section of Ghana Post, while the clearing agent worked at the Tema Harbour. He said on September 8, 2011, the Narcotics Control Board (NACOB) received an intelligence report that Nartey used his office to import narcotic drugs from Pakistan into the country. Nartey, he said, was subsequently arrested and, during interrogation, he stated that he had imported seven consignments of Arabic books into the country on behalf of one Ahmed, a friend of his in Tema, for a cash reward ranging between GH¢150 and GH¢300. Mr Blagodzi said Nartey said the consignment he had received on September 2, 2011 was the same books which he had handed over to a brother of Ahmed’s known to him only as Alhaji. The suspect, however, failed to lead investigators to the said Ahmed or Alhaji’s house and preliminary investigations indicated that all the seven consignments he had received last year were all narcotic drugs and that Nortey had been used in distributing them. DSP Blagodzi said investigations were still ongoing.