Three policemen of the Ghana Police Service who connived and abetted with Asem Dakeh, a drug baron on the run, were yesterday sentenced to 25 years each with hard labour for their role in the missing 76 parcels of cocaine offloaded at the Kpone beach near Tema.

The three, Sergeant David Nyarko, Lance Corporals Dwamena Yabson and Peter Bundorin were also sentenced to two years imprisonment each for corruption by a public official. The sentences run concurrently.

They were charged in connection with the missing cocaine brought into the country on April 25, last year, by the vessel M.V. Benjamin.

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