Habib Iddrisu, nine NPP MPs seek parliamentary inquiry into Ghana-linked drug seizures

First Deputy Minority Whip and Member of Parliament for Tolon, Habib Iddrisu, has filed a private members’ motion seeking a parliamentary inquiry into recent major narcotics seizures linked to Ghana.

Other sponsors of the motion, filed on Monday, September 28, are Rev John Ntim Fordjour, Alexander Afenyo-Markin, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, Dominic Nitiwul, Abena Osei-Asare, Patrick Boamah, Alhassan Tampuli, Mahama Abdul Kabiru, and Samuel Awuku.

The MPs are seeking the establishment of an Ad Hoc Committee to conduct a full-scale bipartisan inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the seizures and other narcotics-related incidents linked to Ghana since the beginning of the Ninth Parliament.

The motion, submitted under Standing Order 102, calls for an investigation into the reported seizure of 3.9 metric tonnes of cocaine by French Customs at Dunkirk on September 10, which the sponsors value at US$261 million.

It also cites the seizure of 320kg of methamphetamine by Australian Border Force on June 18, reportedly linked to Ghana and valued by the sponsors at US$208 million.

Other incidents listed in the motion include a US$150 million cocaine interception in Takoradi in March 2025 and a US$350 million cocaine interception at Pedu in Cape Coast in the same month.

The MPs are also asking the proposed committee to investigate any other narcotics-related seizures linked to Ghana since the inception of the Ninth Parliament.

“The Committee should be mandated to probe and report on the circumstances under which the narcotics consignments reportedly intercepted were processed, inspected, cleared and exported from Ghana,” the motion states in part.

The proposed inquiry would examine the port of departure and security procedures, including intelligence profiling, scanning, inspection and customs clearance processes applied to the consignments.

It would also investigate the identities and roles of companies, agencies and other entities involved in processing and clearing the consignments, subject to legitimate restrictions arising from ongoing criminal investigations.

The motion comes after the Minority previously petitioned Speaker Alban Bagbin to recall Parliament from recess over what it described as urgent national security concerns arising from major narcotics seizures linked to Ghana.

The Speaker subsequently summoned Parliament to sit on Tuesday, September 29, at noon under Article 112(3) of the 1992 Constitution and Order 53 of the Standing Orders.