Ghana’s High Commission to UK to interview cocaine suspect
The Ghana High Commison in the United Kingdom (UK) says it will visit Nayele Ametefeh, the Ghanaian woman arrested at Heathrow Airport for allegedly attempting to smuggle 12 kilogrammes of cocaine into the UK.
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High Commissioner, Ambassador Victor Smith, told Accra-based Adom FM that the embassy would want to find out if she is in good condition at the prison where she is being held.
Ambassador Smith said: “I am sending two of my officers to go to the prison. I have secured that arrangement. When they bring the report, then I will act on the report. I want them to go there, and have an interview with the girl and then come back with the report so I can send it to Accra.”
“Whatever the case may be, she is still a Ghanaian… I need to know how they are handling her,” he added.
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According to a statement issued by NACOB, the suspect, Nayele Ametefeh, was arrested on Monday, November 10, 2014, while going through arrival formalities at the Heathrow Airport following a tip-off.
She had in her possession two suitcases but only one was checked in and bore a luggage tag number BA 059801, and when it was searched nothing of interest was found.
Ms Ametefe left the KIA on November 9, 2014 on board a British Airways flight number BA 078 from Accra to London.
According to the statement, signed by the Deputy Executive Secretary of NACOB, Mr Richard Niki-Lante Blankson, the suspect had also flown on a first-class ticket which had been purchased on October 8, 2014.
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He said investigations so far conducted by the security agencies indicated that the ticket had been altered three times before she finally settled on a date in November to travel.
Mr Blankson said the suspect travelled on an Austrian passport and not a Ghanaian diplomatic passport, as was being speculated on social media.
She had in her possession two suitcases, one of which contained 12kilogrammes of cocaine among her clothing, together with an ordinary Ghanaian passport which was issued on August 3, 2012.
Investigations are still going on to establish if she has been engaged in similar endeavours in other locations.