[ 2014-11-24 ]

Fight against drugs: Soldiers must run NACOB – Security Analyst
A Security Analyst has suggested that the entire
staff of the Narcotics Control Board (NACOB) be
replaced with Soldiers as part of his recommended
“restructuring and reengineering” of the
anti-drug agency to help it better fight narcotics
trafficking.

Executive Director for Ghana Institute of
Governance and Security, David Agbee told MORNING
STARR host Kafui Dey on STARR 103.5FM Monday that
Soldiers have more integrity than civilians, and
are, therefore, less prone to corruption.

Agbee’s proposal comes on the heels of the
arrest of three people at the Kotoka International
Airport in connection with a 12.5-kg cocaine bust
of a Ghanaian Lady with Austrian citizenship at
Heathrow Airport on November 9/10 by UK
authorities.

Among those arrested is an Assistant Director of
the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional
Integration, Abiel Ashitey Armah, who is in charge
of the VVIP lounge at the Kotoka International
Airport (KIA). The other two are Theophilus Kissi
of the Research Department attached to the VVIP
lounge and Abubakar Ahmed, whose office is yet to
be known, according to the state-owned Daily
Graphic newspaper.

Armah is reported to have given strict
instructions to the two others to allow the
arrested suspect, Nayele Ametefeh and two other
ladies – yet to be identified – access to the
VVIP lounge. He also instructed Kissi and Ahmed to
accompany the three to the lounge.

Ametefeh, who is known by several aliases, has
been on NACOB’s wanted list since 2009.

Ghanaian Authorities say she travelled on her
Austrian passport. There had been earlier reports
that she had a diplomatic passport on her. The
Government of Ghana has, however, insisted she had
just an ordinary Ghanaian passport on her.

President John Mahama dissolved the entire Board
of NACOB over the weekend following claims by the
UK High Commission that British authorities did
not coorporate with NACOB, contrary to earlier
claims to that effect by the Ghanaian anti-drug
body.

Agbee, who has, in earlier interview, called for
the resignation of NACOB’s Executive Secretary
Akrasi Sarpong, now believes the entire office
must be overhauled. He argued that Military
Officers, who are less prone to corruption, must
be made to take over NACOB as part of measures
towards reducing complicity from officialdom in
the trafficking of drugs through the Kotoka
International Airport.

Source - Starrfmonline

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