THE CHRONICLE'S intelligence information has gathered that, Alex Kufour Frimpong, popularly called Lexis, who has been declared wanted by the Police following the discovery of his five-acre Indian hemp farm, had in his original plan, to travel to Jamaica, where it is believed and alleged, his financiers are based.

The information also indicates that a group, believed to his Jamaican partners, were seriously making moves to smuggle the 'wee' baron out of the country and it is not clear whether the group could succeed in that direction. Credible sources however, suggest that the wee farmer is still hiding in the country with his agents trying to facilitate his plans to travel to Jamaica.

The Police, who had already alerted International Police (INTERPOL) for assistance to arrest the culprit, perhaps may have to intensify their efforts to be able to outwit the Jamaican group that is bent of rescuing Lexis from the law.

The Chronicle source also revealed that all the dollars Alex spent on his farm and the entire activities on the Indian hemp venture was being sponsored by his Jamaican partners and some friends from Canada.

Lexis is a native of Dormaa, a product of the Wenchi Secondary School and the University of Ghana, Legon, where he studied biochemistry.

Apart from the wee farm, he was also engaged in teak and oil palm cultivation in the Brong Ahafo Region. On Monday May 14, a Circuit Court in Sunyani presided over by his Lordship, Justice G.H.K Debrah began trying the case of Alex, whose name appeared on the 1st docket, as the first accused with five other accomplices.

In all, 13 persons appeared before the court on two separate dockets. The 2nd docket contained seven other accused persons. The 1st docket that has the name of Alex and five others has other names like Andrews Amponsah, 25, Iddirisu Umar, 29, Emmanuel Asamoah, 29, Thomas Owusu Andansi 43 and Isaac Owusu, 25, whilst the 2nd docket contained Kwame Asomah, 20; Atta Kwabena, 28; Tongo Tamgu Sumda, 55; Kwaku Frank, 19; Kwabena Boateng, 28 and Baba Salia, 23.

The court advised the prosecution to specifically prepare the offences of each of the accused persons to enable the court know the direction of the case. The prosecution told the court that they needed enough time to complete investigations into matter.

Agreeing with the prosecution over ample time for investigation, the lead Counsel for the accused persons, Mr. Willie-Wise Kyeremeh, prayed the court that by the time the suspects would be brought to court again, the prosecution should be in the position to provide enough evidence on the matter.

According to Willie-Wise, the accused persons knew nothing about the India hemp, because they were not physically caught with the drugs and that the Police conducted a swoop to arrest them and this he said could lead to the arrest of innocent persons.

He added that while the accused persons were in Police custody, the Police went to Nsawkaw to retrieve more of the drugs and therefore his clients could not be linked to the matter.

Mr. Kyeremeh implored the court that since they are officers of the court, it would be advisable to help the Police to do the right thing, adding that it was better not to do something to impede the work of the police and for that matter it was necessary to give the police enough time to investigate the case.

Their plea was not taking and the case was adjourned to Monday, May 21.