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The Managing Director of Goodies Music Productions, Isaac Abeidu Aidoo, aka Goodies, has pleaded not guilty to narcotic offences.Consequently, the circuit court trying him following his arrest at the Kotoka International Airport has remanded him in prison custody and adjourned the case to August 11, 2008.Aidoo was initially being tried at the Regional Tribunal on charges of possessing and attempted exportation of narcotic drugs.The prosecutor, ASP Kofi Blagodzi, told the court that Aidoo allegedly swallowed 80 pellets of cocaine and attempted to smuggle them to the United Kingdom.He said at about 10.45p.m. on April 23, this year, Aidoo arrived at the Kotoka International Airport to board a Ghana International Airlines flight to London.While going through departure formalities, operatives of the Narcotics Control Board (NACOB) suspected Aidoo of carrying drugs in his stomach.Aidoo 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.Aidoo 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.According to the prosecutor, Aidoo failed to lead the police to arrest the said Abdul.Source: Daily Graphic
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