Londoners Sentenced For Smuggling Cannabis From Ghana In Sacks Of Gari Powder

A group of Londoners who smuggled 1,500 kilos of cannabis into the UK from Ghana in sacks of cassava flour have been sentenced.Daniel Yeboah, 54, Kristoffen Baidoo, 48, Kwaku Bonsu, 52, all from London, and Edward Adjei, 48, from Grays, were found guilty after investigators discovered the drugs inside a shipping container at Tilbury Docks, Essex.While Yeboah was jailed for five years and Adjei for four years at Southwark Crown Court on Friday, both Baidoo and Bonsu are on the run, having failed to appear in court for trial. They were sentenced to ten years and seven years respectively in their absence.The court heard how the container holding the drugs arrived at Tilbury Docks on December 19 2019 and was searched by Border Force officials for drugs after a tip off from the Ghanaian authorities.They found 2,335 packages of herbal cannabis inside hessian sacks of Gari powder, with a street value of around £4.3m.Detectives with the National Crime Agency replaced the cannabis with dummy packages and tracked them.