The Cocaine Saga- The Politicians Swift Dribbles And The Their Effect On The Non-Political Class

The FINDER newspaper's story suggesting that 10 bags of cocaine hidden in a consignment of rice with an estimated street value of about $30 million has vanished from the Tema Port,continue to dominate social media discussions.Politicians have started pushing the usual partisan twist killing the dispassionate zeal and passion needed in handling this national canker.The sector commander of the Customs Excise and Preventive Service of the Ghana Revenue Authority at the Tema Port,Mr Nyadzi has dismissed the story but his statement is not emphatic enough to clear the doubt lingering in the mind of many.

I don't think the issue must end with the statement because of the precedents we all know when it comes to drugs seizure, arrest of traffickers, and attitude of some security operatives.Initial statements issued by suspects and the security operatives at times end up being lies and orchestrated plans to deceive the public hence the need to thread carefully at this point.When Mr Amoateng a sitting MP was arrested in the United States, the legislator confused the general public with convincing statements and even mentioned the name of God to establish his innocence👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻

“I affirm before my nation that the allegations against me is false. I have not done anything wrong. I emphatically and categorically deny the charges leveled against me. I pray to God that in due time and soon all the facts will come out and I would be totally exonerated”.

This was the statement Mr Amoateng issued when the matter was reported by section of the media. He was able to convince his party executives and leadership in Parliament culminating into the strong support the government and the npp party offered him till the full facts corroborated by himself, was made bare by the authorities in the United States.During the MV Benjamin trial, we heard narratives by Chief Inspector Charles Adaba and others,we heard what Darkey and others said in their initial submissions and what happened finally,the 25 slabs of cocaine against the 30 slabs as reported and many other scary revelations we heard.

I am not going to bore readers with stories about drug cases in Ghana but rather, reminding readers of how the system reacted to same cases whenever they broke up.The involvement of some unscrupulous politicians and few bad nuts in our security institutions. Just rubbishing these cases because of our political persuasions is dangerous.The politician will always advance nice arguments to support his interest and will travel every length to ensure that his interest supersedes all other interests if that would help him accomplish his dream.

Those who support the various political parties and leaders but are not close to the establishment must always have this in mind.Drug trafficking from South America en route Europe through West Africa isn't anything new,the level of traffic has increased in recent times so much so that most western intelligence networks are collaborating effectively with other west African security networks and private organisations to curb its escalation.Declassified information suggests that the warlords in the Sierra Leone war were sponsored by some of these drug barons in West Africa and bones of victims of the war were sold to these drug dealers.What we must know is that if we create space for the drug trade through our partisan supports the next stage would be excessive corruption, predatory behaviour of political elites,political instability, weakening of our state institutions especially the police, Nacob etc which will automatically lead to weakening of law enforcement.

Guinea Bissau is still going through political and social crisis because of organised crime and drug trade. The place has become one of the routes of the drug traders.Ghana at a point became to most reliable route for the barons culminating into contract killings,shootings at (in) night clubs,open gun fights etc we witnessed in the country.Some Ghanaians were arrested in Brazil and other main drug points with huge parcels of drugs.

Some of these drug barons unable to carry on their illicit business, started sponsoring our political parties and potential leaders to kick out regimes they see as unfriendly to their business.We know these drugs barons, we deal with some of them,some contract us to help them in many ways but because of our partisan interest and hate for some particular political organisations, we comment and act as if people condemning and exposing this emerging danger are red herring and we outrageously justify these evil deals with past cases just to equalize what we must courageously condemn.The main joint where these dangerous drugs are sold to our youth in the capital, is just about 50 to 70metres from the central police station yet,the sellers do their business freely and the users condemn themselves at ease daily, we see these junkies move about around the police station terrorizing traders and pickpocketing innocent people yet we see and hear no arrest.

Police officers holding AK 47 are seen always using the base where the drug peddlers operate as route to other parts in the capital yet,pretend they do not see this dangerous activity in the area.Politicians pay these drug peddlers who at times pose as mad men, to join their demonstration just to make mischievous political statements etc etc.

We are monitoring the situation, we shall do the little we could to help unravel some of these criminal deals however dangerous it would be.Politicians must always know that power is transient,operatives in our security services must know that drug cases do not die so easily,past experiences and happenings should guide them whenever they are coerced by the political actors to play chess game.When drug barons are operating successfully they are very secretive but turn parrots when they are caught and rendered helpless.

And to those in the media equalising reemergence of these dangerous acts with precedents,I say,just go on your knees and pray for God's mercies, visit Tudu and others drug joints in Accra to see for yourself how cocaine and heroine is destroying our youth. Soon, the very beautiful political environment we enjoying would be taken over by these tough drug barons because of our insincerity and wicked defenses.....

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