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Cocaine sniffing patient on remand

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The female ulcer patient, who was caught sniffing a substance suspected to be cocaine in one of the toilets of Kwadaso SDA hospitals, in Kumasi, Aisha Fuseini and her accomplice, Maxwell Dzikunu, have again been remanded into prison custody to reappear on October 28, by which the laboratory test on the exhibit would be in. In the first appearance on September 23, before the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA) Circuit Court, the judge remanded them into prison custody on October 7 by which time police would have a confirmation on the substance from a forensic laboratory. However, when the case came up for hearing on October 7, the prosecution pleaded for more time as it was yet to receive the result of the laboratory analysis to confirm whether the whitish substance was really cocaine or not. Inspector Martin Asenso, prosecuting, asked that the court gave the prosecution more time for it to obtain the test result from Accra for it to proceed with the case. The court therefore adjourned the case to October 28, 2010 and remanded the suspects into prison custody. It will be recalled that The Spectator carried on its front page a story about a female ulcer patient who decided to indulge in narcotic drug under the nose of hospital staff of Seventh Day Adventist (SDA) Hospital at Kwadaso, Kumasi, was in police grips. In the said article, Aisha Fuseini, 26, resident of Tafo-Pankrono within the Kumasi metropolis, who was undergoing treatment at the hospital for severe stomach ulcer, was caught in one of the hospital's toilets sniffing whitish substance suspected to be cocaine. Her supplier, a 36-yaer old hunchback Maxwell Dzikunu, has also been picked up by the police and was standing trial at the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA) Circuit Court presided over his Worship Adjei Frimpong. While Fuseini was charged on one count for attempting to use narcotic drug without authority, her accomplice, Dzikunu, was charged on two counts of supplying narcotic drug without lawful authority and attempting to use narcotic drug contrary to section five (5) of PNDC law 236/90. Police prosecutor, Inspector Asenso, told the court on September 20 this year, while on admission at the hospital, Aisha was visited by Maxwell Dzikunu. He said soon after Dzikunu left, the patient also left her bed and was later found in one of the toilets attempting to sniff the whitish substance. The prosecutor said that when she was questioned about what the substance was, she could not give any explanation and mentioned Dzikunu as the one who gave it to her. The hospital staff quickly alerted the security personnel at the entrance of the hospital who arrested the suspect and when he was searched, a wrapper of dried leaves suspected to be Indian hemp was found on him. Source: The Spectator/Ghana

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