[ 2014-11-25 ]

Parliament suspended over cocaine row
Speaker of Parliament, Edward Doe Adjaho was
forced to suspend sitting today after Minority and
Majority engaged in a rowdy and heated exchange of
words over whose government is or was
dyed-in-the-wool with drug barons.

The Members of Parliament, who want to be
acknowledged as honourables, threw caution to the
wind when they were supposed to debate the 2015
budget, and blatantly subjected themselves into
cacophonous cocaine allegations.

It all started, Joy FM’s parliamentary
correspondent Elton Brobbey reports, when Deputy
Minority Leader, Dominic Nitiwul was called to
contribute to an ongoing debate on the 2015
financial statement.

He brought out two bags of rice he said weighed
12.5 kilograms, the same size as the amount of
cocaine smuggled out of Ghana by a woman who was
busted in Heathrow, London recently.

Mr. Nitiwul had questioned how the woman, Nayele
Ametefeh, aka Ruby Adu Gamfi, was able to outwit
security at the Kotoka International Airport with
such a large quantity of the contraband goods.

According to the MP for Bimbilla, the lady could
not have gone through the boarding gates without
being aided by security personnel there.

He went further to accuse the government of being
in bed with cocaine barons. The Majority did not
take kindly to his comments and decided to reply
in the same measure.

The MPs therefore disregarded the business of the
day to paint themselves black with cocaine
accusations and creating a chaotic scene with the
ensuing counteraccusations.

The disorderliness went beyond control, compelling
the Speaker to suspend sitting abruptly, Elton
reported.

He reported the Speaker accusing Domini Nitiwul of
showing “clear disrespect to his office” by
needlessly raising the issue of cocaine in an
inopportune moment.

According to the Speaker, he had a meeting with
Mr. Nitiwul on a statement the latter had wanted
to read in the House, but was asked to clear from
the former first. That did not happen only for him
to go ahead to demonstrate the bags of rice and
disrupt the business of the day.

The Speaker subsequently summoned the leadership
of both sides to his office to talk over the
issue, after he suspended sitting.

So far, an Assistant Director of the Ministry of
Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, Abiel
Ashitey Armah and two others, Theophilus Kissi of
the Research Department attached to the VVIP
Lounge at the Kotoka International Airport and one
Abubakar Ahmed, have been arrested by the Bureau
of National Investigations for allegedly aiding
Nayele Ametefeh

Source - Joy News

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