A private legal practitioner and member of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Abraham Amaliba has said the state security agencies are doing well to arrest the drug barons in Ghana.
He wondered what the security agencies were doing in the past 8 years when there was no news of the arrest of the drug dealers.
Speaking on the Key Points on TV3 Saturday, April 26, the Director of the Road Safety Authority said, “Ghana has long been recognised as a transit point when it comes to drugs, then we became a user. In recent times, you have realised that the security agencies are doing so much work to arrest these drug barons.
“If in 3 months they can make this number of arrests, more than the past 8 years in the previous administration, is it that in the past 8 years the state agencies were not up to the task. What were they doing in the past 8 years? They were not making these arrests, and now, in just three months, they are making arrests.”
He further called on authorities to let the public know how these intercepted drugs are disposed of.
“I think that they need to tell us how these drugs are disposed of,” he said.
On Wednesday April 23, four individuals have been arrested following the interception of a cargo shipment containing suspected cocaine by the Narcotics Control Commission (NACOC).
The operation took place at the Swiss Port, where NACOC officials uncovered a total of seventy-three (73) slabs of a concealed substance believed to be cocaine.
The suspected narcotics, weighing approximately 89.74 kilograms, were reportedly being packaged for export to the Netherlands.
Authorities say the interception was a result of intelligence-led operations aimed at curbing international drug trafficking through Ghana’s ports.
The four suspects, whose identities have not yet been disclosed, are currently in NACOC custody as investigations continue.
