The Minority in Parliament has charged government to set up an independent body to investigate the disappearance of 100.10 grams of cocaine seized at Kpoglu Boarder in the Ketu South Municipality.
The Minority at the news conference addressed by the ranking member on the Defence and Interior Committee in Parliament said, “the lack of synergy amongst the country’s security agencies at our borders mirrors the failure of the leadership of President Akufo Addo as Chairman of the National Security Council.”
According to James Agalga, such failure brings grave danger to the national security as a whole.
In response to the concerns of the Director-General of Narcotics Control Commission (NACOC) in relation to the missing cocaine, James Agalga called for “the immediate setting up of an independent committee of inquiry to establish amongst others, the circumstances under which the cocaine impounded by NACOC and entrusted in the custody of the Customs Division of GRA disappeared”.
He reminded the public about the fact that in 2006, President Kufuor set up the Georgina Wood Committee of inquiry to investigate the disappearance of 77 parcels of cocaine from the MV Benjamin which entered the territorial waters at the time.
“Similarly in January, 2008, Kwamena Bartels, the Minister of the interior at the time, set-up Kojo Armah Committee of inquiry to investigate the circumstances that led to the substitution of cocaine with flour at the police exhibits room at the CD headquarters in Accra.”
“The NDC urges the current government to follow precedent by allowing an independent body to thoroughly investigate the Aflao cocaine saga.”
On June 5, 2020, 100.10 grams of whitish substances suspected to be cocaine together with USD200,00 were seized at the Kpoglu Boarder in the Volta Region and kept under custody of the Customs Division of the Ghana Revenue Authority but the cocaine is reported missing as reported by the Narcotics Control Commission.
Story filed by Edzorna Francis Mensah.
