A combined team of military and police personnel on Wednesday morning April 20, locked down parts of the Tudu market in Accra as part of a move to round up alleged drug peddlers and addicts in and around the Central Business District.
When Citi News arrived at the scene, close to fifty suspects had been packed in police and military vans and taken away.
According to security officials, the area has become a hub for dealers in hard drugs hence the operation to arrest them at random and prosecute those found culpable.
Citi FM’s Richard Sky, who was at the scene said residents and customers who had visited the Tudu Market were terrified as both men and women were subjected to thorough search.
According to him, the entrance and exit points of the market and some access roads were blocked in the course of the search.
Some persons who were searched accused the soldiers of manhandling them.
A young woman who had gone to buy clothes at the Tudu Market told Citi News because she was a woman only her bag was thoroughly searched while her male colleagues were ordered to empty their pockets and were also patted down before being allowed to go. She told Citi News she was returning home because she was too terrified.
Security agencies in the Greater Accra Region have identified the Tudu area in Accra as a notorious hide out and market place for drug users and peddlers.
Police and military chiefs in the city have thus begun a serious crackdown on drug peddlers and users operating within and outside the Tudu area.
Source: Citifmonline.com/Ghana
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