[ 2014-11-26 ]

Nayele Ametefeh, aka Ruby Adu-Gyamfi, aka Angel

Nayeele girls fled with cocaine
Information reaching Daily Guide indicates that
the Ghanaian woman, Nayele Ametefeh, aka Ruby
Adu-Gyamfi, aka Angel, who was arrested with 12.5
kilos of cocaine at the Heathrow Airport in London
on November 10, 2014 did not travel alone, but
with two other ladies whose whereabouts are
unknown.

Sources say she left Accra in the company of the
two other ladies who are believed to be part of
the cocaine ring that was smashed by the British
law enforcement agents.

However, the two ladies allegedly fled after
seeing their ‘baroness’ grabbed by the British
security system.

Daily Guide learnt that the replay of the Close
Circuit Television (CCTV) recordings indicated
that Ruby Adu-Gyamfi used the VVIP wing together
with her colleagues for the trip, and this was
facilitated by some top state officials.

Communications Minister, Dr Edward Omane-Boamah,
had said on Radio Gold’s news analysis
programme, Alhaji & Alhaji, at the weekend that
three people who allegedly aided Nayele Ametefeh
had been arrested to help unravel the mystery of
how the drug baroness used the VVIP for drug trade
leading to her arrest in London.

Fresh Arrests

It later turned out that a senior official with
the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Nii Ashietey
Armah, who is in charge of the VVIP section, and
two other officers, Ahmed Abubakar and Theophilus
Kissi, were the people picked up for questioning
in connection with Nayele Ametefeh’s arrest.

According to the source, a careful review of the
CCTV images showed that two other ladies who also
allegedly had 5kgs each of the cocaine passed
through the VVIP section in the company of Nayele
Ametefeh to board the BA078 flight to Heathrow.

Alhaji Influence

Furthermore, the Alhaji whose name came up
strongly during the initial interrogation of the
three arrested people has been identified as one
Alhaji Dauda who is currently at large.

He was said to have placed a telephone call to the
arrested VVIP officials and told them his
‘people’ were to travel and needed their
assistance in boarding formalities.

Ruby Girls

Reports in the United Kingdom indicate that upon
realising they were being monitored at Heathrow,
the two colleagues of Nayele Ametefeh allegedly
left their stuff behind and bolted, but the
‘ring leader’ mustered courage and surged
forward, brandishing her diplomatic passport which
the NDC government is vehemently denying it had
issued her.

Kennedy Ohene Agyapong, MP for Assin Central,
appears to have lent credence to these facts when
he told Citi FM over the weekend that the two
ladies in question reportedly returned to Accra
the same day and subsequently absconded to
neighbouring Togo.

The Mr Agyapong’s version of events and other
mind-blowing allegations he made have gone
unchallenged by the NDC government and its
communication team.

Double Identity

Emerging reports indicate that Nayele Ametefeh
also uses many names on different travelling
documents. Apart from Nayele Ametefeh, she is
reported to be using Angel, Ruby Adu-Gyamfi and
now Irene Tawiah among others.

On that fateful day at the Heathrow Airport, she
was said to be carrying passports issued by the
governments of both Austria and Ghana with the
name Nayele Ametefeh in them.

The government, however, continues to dispute the
diplomatic passport bit even though an Austrian
newspaper, Kronen Zeitung, published that Ruby
brandished a diplomatic passport when security
details at the Heathrow Airport, who were
suspicious, stopped her.

She was said to be carrying three passports at the
time of her arrest but it is still unclear what
name she had on the third passport.

NACOB Cover Up

The arrest of the drug dealer appears to have
embarrassed the government, leading to the
dissolution of the Governing Board of the
Narcotics Control Board (NACOB).

In an obvious attempt at a cover up, NACOB had
claimed that it collaborated with its British
counterparts in arresting the drug baroness.

It took a terse statement from the British High
Commission in Accra to dismiss the collaboration
assertion.

According to the statement by the High Commission,
even though the UK authorities have been working
closely with NACOB since 2006, they “had no
prior knowledge of the intentions of Ms Nayele
Ametefeh before flying from Accra to London on
9/10 November.

“UK authorities work closely with NACOB to
ensure that, wherever possible, any potential drug
trafficker to the UK from Ghana is arrested here
in Ghana and not permitted to board a flight in
order to traffic drugs,” the statement
emphasised.

NACOB had said in a press release last week Monday
that the suspect “was arrested on the 10th of
November, 2014 through the collaborative effort of
the Narcotics Control Board (NACOB) and its
British partners.”

The statement signed by NACOB’s Deputy Executive
Secretary (E&C) Richard Nii Lante Blankson said
that Ms Ametefeh travelled on an Austrian
passport.

“It is worthy to note that Ms Nayele Ametefe
travelled on Austrian passport number P4187659 and
not on Ghanaian Diplomatic passport as being
speculated. She also had in her possession an
ordinary Ghanaian passport number G0364497 issued
on 3rd August, 2012.”

Alarm Blow

Ruby is said to have had her luggage brought
safely into the first class section of the
particular British Airways flight using her
connections in the Ghanaian establishment.

Sources close to the operation that nailed her say
that Ruby was spotted by other first class
passengers trying to fit 2kg of her consignment
into her hand bag after it became difficult for
the 12.5kg drug to enter the luggage compartment
of the plane.

These passengers alerted the crew members who in
turn informed ground staff at Heathrow who
informed the Border Security, leading to her
arrest.

On arrival at Heathrow, Border Security officials,
who had ordered only the first class passengers to
disembark, quickly asked her to step aside to be
searched.

This request is said to have infuriated Ruby, who
questioned the security officials, brandishing her
Ghanaian diplomatic passport in the process.

Sources say upon her arrest, three top officials
of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) of
the United States quickly jetted off to London,
within four hours of her arrest, to interrogate
her on various matters of concern to American
officials in their unending war on narcotics.

Source - Daily Guide

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