{"id":233635,"date":"2026-05-18T16:44:53","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T14:44:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-nacoc-raids-major-drug-hotspots-in-greater-accra-and-oti-regions\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T16:44:53","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T14:44:53","slug":"ghana-nacoc-raids-major-drug-hotspots-in-greater-accra-and-oti-regions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-nacoc-raids-major-drug-hotspots-in-greater-accra-and-oti-regions\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: Nacoc Raids Major Drug Hotspots in Greater Accra and Oti Regions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">The Narcotics Control Commission (NACOC) has carried out a sweeping anti-drug operation across parts of Greater Accra and the Oti Region mainly to winout unscrupulous elements perpetuating their illicit drug trafficking activities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">The successful exercise led to several arrest and seizure of several suspected narcotic substances over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">The coordinated raids targeted at known drug dens in the Greater Accra areas include Kissieman, Dome and Kwabenya.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nKeep up with the latest&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202605180559.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Narcotics Control Commission (NACOC) has carried out a sweeping anti-drug operation across parts of Greater Accra and the Oti Region mainly to winout unscrupulous elements perpetuating their illicit drug trafficking activities. The successful exercise led to several arrest and seizure of several suspected narcotic substances over the weekend. The coordinated raids targeted at known [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":233636,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[4512,258,256,6949,4508,4509,9486,12513,7373,51705,257,26719,7886,6897,254],"class_list":["post-233635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-accra","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-drug","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-greater","tag-hotspots","tag-major","tag-nacoc","tag-news","tag-oti","tag-raids","tag-regions","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}