Popular Ghanaian Reggae musician, poet and radio host at Accra-based 3FM, Blakk Rasta has questioned the decision of the police to burn seized narcotics at the Black Star Square Beach in Osu.
He finds it unsettling that instead of using an incinerator, the police and drug control personnel burnt all three medium-sized buckets full of heroin, 248 fertiliser sacks, 315 wraps, 24 sachets, and 68 compressed slabs of different drugs at the beach.
Blakk Rasta said burning the narcotics in the open will harm the ecosystem and could even kill some fish in the ocean or birds that soar over the smoke.
The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service following orders by the Accra Circuit Court from 2020 to 2024 to destroy the narcotic drugs, burnt large quantities of narcotics worth millions of cedis at the Black Star Square in Accra.
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This, Blakk Rasta, said he was disappointed with the choice of the beach as the place for the destruction of the drugs.
He also questioned Ghana’s decision to burn the seized illegal goods rather than sell them to nations where the drugs are permitted.
Blakk Rasta declared that he would have filed a lawsuit against the police and the other security services involved in the public burning of narcotics on the Osu beach if he had been the Overlord of Accra.
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He made these comments yesterday during the Black Pot segment of his radio show, Taxi Driver/Urban Blend on Accra-based 3FM 92.7.
