Patrick Osei Agyemang aka Countryman Songo
A leading sports presenter from a giant media company in Accra is due to appear before court today after he was arrested for possessing and using narcotic drugs during a police operation in Accra yesterday.
Patrick Osei Agyemang aka Countryman Songo, the suspect, according to Bobie Ansah of Asempa FM, who rescued the suspect on air, claimed that he had only gone for a haircut at a time when the police swooped on the location at North Ridge, near the Alisa hotel.
An assortment of narcotic drugs such as marijuana, a whitish substance suspected to be cocaine and firearms were seized during the operation.
By A.R. GomdaAt the time that he was being held at the Nima Police Station after his arrest, a string of journalists, numbering about 30, made its way to the security joint.
Some of the journalists were told to tarry for an hour so details of the arrest could be put out at a press conference but the string pulling which followed gagged the Nima Police from making good their promise of releasing the details, citing “order from above” to support their reneged position.
Happy FM, an Accra-based radio station, broke the story first, according to Ghana Soccernet, an online sports media, stating that the man, very popular with taxi drivers for his 1pm daily sports programme, had been arrested.
The story enjoyed an orchestrated blackout from prominent media channels in an apparent attempt to keep the suspect’s details away from prying pressmen but Bobie-Ansah’s treatment of the story gave an inkling of who was at the centre of the suspected crime.
The police, DAILY GUIDE has learnt, were on routine patrol duties when they spotted suspected hardened criminals and swooped upon them and in the event, rounded up the radio presenter in the company of five others.
The operation was not a walkover for the police as they had to call in reinforcement to support them.
By A.R. Gomda