The strong bonds of love between husband and wife could not soften the heart of a woman from giving up her husband for allegedly engaging in narcotic trade. For fear of being hauled alongside her husband into police cells, Mrs Emmanuella Benyinie Soromah admitted to a police patrol team from the Ho Regional Headquarters that parcels of a substance suspected to be Indian Hemp belonged to her husband. Mr Soromah and other passengers had earlier denied ownership of the luggage when the patrol team intercepted the Handy mini bus with registration number GT 3949 N on which they were traveling between Sokode-Etoe and Bame. But his wife betrayed him when she identified a towel used to wrap the consignment of Indian Hemp as belonging to Soromah, her husband. With his cover blown, Mr Soromah was compelled to admit the ownership of the parcel and claimed he had bought them from one Richard at Have, who had also brought them from Dzemeni, all in the Volta Region. The suspect has been remanded in prison custody pending the test of the dried leaves at the laboratory. The incident was among a number of drug peddling cases, the Volta Regional Police Commander, ACP Alex Bedie, made known to the media at a press conference. He observed that the spate of drug peddling was getting to an alarming stage in the region because almost every other day, the police intercepted large quantities of substances suspected to be Indian hemp. He said eight arrests had been made in separate operations on June 9, June 15, June 16, June 21, June 27, June 28, July 1 and July 4; 2011. In a related development, an 18- year-old Godwin Adinkra was arrested in a family house at Ho-Kpodzi with a substance suspected to be Indian hemp. However, in a move to give legitimacy to his contraband, Adinkra told the police that he obtained a certain license “D” from the Ho Municipal Assembly to practice as an herbalist by combining “wee” and another herb known in the Ewe language as “Tatakplala” to produce a concoction for stroke patients. According to him, he was an herbalist and spiritualist who received messages from the spirits of a “god” that revealed curative herbs to him in a dream to cure patients. Source: Daily Graphic/Ghana