NPP is a cocaine shipping party – Kofi Adams
The National Organiser of the National Democratic Congress, Kofi Adams, has described the New Patriotic Party (NPP) as a cocaine shipping party.
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He was speaking on Accra-based Joy FM Wednesday in response to a statement by the NPP to the effect that the government was complicit in the Nayele Ametefeh cocaine scandal which has rocked the country since November 2014.
Nayele, who pleaded guilty to importing 12 kilogrammes of cocaine into the UK, was sentenced to eight years and eight months imprisonment by a UK court Tuesday.
In reaction to the sentencing, the NPP issued a press statement, accusing the government of not doing enough to prevent Nayele from transporting the cocaine from Ghana.
Alleging that Nayele smuggled the drug through the VVIP section of the Kotoko International Airport (KIA), the party questioned how she managed to pull it off without support from elements in government.
“Why was she arrested by the British Border Agency on the aircraft and not allowed to disembark? Did the British Border control suspect that she was not going to pass through the airport? Is it mere coincidence that there was a Ghana High Commission diplomatic car on the tarmac to pick someone?” the NPP remarked in the press statement.
The remarks did not go down well with Kofi Adams, who denied that government was complicit in the crime.
Pointing to the arrests of 12 people who are alleged to have aided and abetted Nayele to transport the cocaine, Adams said the government was clamping down hard on drug traffickers.
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He described the NPP’s statement as a distraction, which was calculated to disrupt the government’s fight against drugs.
The NDC National Organiser also denied that Nayele transported the drugs through the VVIP section of KIA.
According to him, the fact that Nayele successfully smuggled the drugs past security checks at KIA did not mean government was complicit.
Adams questioned whether the NPP was complicit when former Member of Parliament, Eric Amoateng, shipped 135 pounds of heroin to the US in 2005.
He said unlike the NDC which arrested Nayele’s collaborators, the NPP failed to arrest those who helped Amoateng ship the heroin through the port.
Adams went on to warn the NPP not compare itself to the NDC when it came to fighting drugs, alleging that the NPP was known to be shipping drugs.
He vowed that the government would not relent in the fight against drugs.