2006年VOA标准英语-Major Cocaine Drug Scandal Shakes Ghana
时间：2018-12-07 作者：英语课 分类：2006年VOA标准英语（九月）
By Efam Dovi
Accra
30 September 2006
In Ghana, a senior police officer and 17 others are being prosecuted 1 for their involvement in a major cocaine 2 drug scandal that has engulfed 3 the West African nation.
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Ghana
Ghana's government last July set up a fact finding committee to investigate the disappearance 4 of a shipment of cocaine that was seized from a vessel 5 within the country's territorial 6 waters.
The committee was also asked to look into allegations of bribery 7 and corruption 8 by senior police officers.
The investigations 9 failed to locate the whereabouts of the 76 parcels of cocaine, each weighing 30 kilograms, but found that the drugs were offloaded in Ghana.
The committee also raised questions about the integrity of the country's police chief, PK Acheampong, but did not indict 10 him.
Outlining the governments position on the report submitted to it last week, Interior Minister Albert Kan-Dapaah, called the conduct of the police chief unacceptable.
According to the committee, at a meeting with four suspected drug barons 11, secretly recorded, the former director general of operations, Kofi Boakye, a senior police official confessed to gross abuse of office.
Kan-Dapaah says the government agrees with the committees recommendations that Boakye should be prosecuted.
"The committee found substantial evidence showing that instead of protecting the national interest and fighting crime, ACP Kofi Boakye and four others sought to promote their own agenda, for financial reward," he said.
The government also said it is considering action against two former officials of the country's narcotics 12 control board.
The committee also recommended that a high powered national task force be set up to look into ways to combat the illegal the drug trade.
- The editors are being prosecuted for obscenity. 编辑因刊载污秽文字而被起诉。
- The company was prosecuted for breaching the Health and Safety Act. 这家公司被控违反《卫生安全条例》。
- That young man is a cocaine addict.那个年轻人吸食可卡因成瘾。
- Don't have cocaine abusively.不可滥服古柯碱。
- He was engulfed by a crowd of reporters. 他被一群记者团团围住。
- The little boat was engulfed by the waves. 小船被波浪吞没了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- He was hard put to it to explain her disappearance.他难以说明她为什么不见了。
- Her disappearance gave rise to the wildest rumours.她失踪一事引起了各种流言蜚语。
- The vessel is fully loaded with cargo for Shanghai.这艘船满载货物驶往上海。
- You should put the water into a vessel.你应该把水装入容器中。
- The country is fighting to preserve its territorial integrity.该国在为保持领土的完整而进行斗争。
- They were not allowed to fish in our territorial waters.不允许他们在我国领海捕鱼。
- FBI found out that the senator committed bribery.美国联邦调查局查明这个参议员有受贿行为。
- He was charged with bribery.他被指控受贿。
- The people asked the government to hit out against corruption and theft.人民要求政府严惩贪污盗窃。
- The old man reviled against corruption.那老人痛斥了贪污舞弊。
- His investigations were intensive and thorough but revealed nothing. 他进行了深入彻底的调查，但没有发现什么。
- He often sent them out to make investigations. 他常常派他们出去作调查。
- You can't indict whole people for the crudeness of a few.您不能因少数人的粗暴行为就控诉整个民族。
- I can indict you for abducting high school student.我可以告你诱拐中学生。