The Ranking Member on Parliament’s Defence and Interior Committee, Rev. John Ntim Fordjour, has urged the Minister for the Interior to publicly identify and prosecute government officials allegedly implicated in the trafficking of 320 kilograms of methamphetamine worth over $300 million, which was intercepted in Australia.
Speaking in an interview with The Chronicle, the Assin South MP said any public official found to have facilitated the drug trafficking operation must face the full force of the law, stressing that public office must never be used to aid criminal activities.
His comments come less than 24 hours after the Minister for the Interior, Muntaka Mohammed-Mubarak, told Parliament’s Committee on Government Assurances that preliminary investigations had implicated some government and public officials in the narcotics shipment after allegedly manipulating the country’s security system to enable the consignment to pass through Ghana, before it was intercepted in Australia.
The Minister’s disclosure followed the reported seizure of methamphetamine valued at about $300 million in Australia.
“Those government officials must be named and prosecuted. We will resist every attempt to shield drug trafficking government officials,” Rev. Ntim Fordjour told The Chronicle.
He further cautioned that elected and appointed officials have a responsibility to serve the public and should not exploit their positions for criminal enterprises.
“You’ve been elected and appointed not to use power to operate multimillion dollar drug trafficking cartel,” he added.
