Deputy Director General of the Narcotics Control Commission (NACOC), Twum Barima has said that the new leadership at NACOC is working hard to arrest drug barons in Ghana.
He says investigations into the recent interception of the drugs are ongoing to uncover all persons behind it.
“The barons apply chemicals on the slabs to disguise them,” he said on the Key Points on TV3 Saturday, April 26.
He added, “The current leadership at NACOC are seriously working to arrest…Thorough investigations are being done and are ongoing.”
On Wednesday, April 23, four individuals were arrested following the interception of a cargo shipment containing suspected cocaine by the Narcotics Control Commission (NACOC).
The operation took place at the Swiss Port, where NACOC officials uncovered a total of seventy-three (73) slabs of a concealed substance believed to be cocaine.
The suspected narcotics, weighing approximately 89.74 kilograms, were reportedly being packaged for export to the Netherlands.
Authorities say the interception was a result of intelligence-led operations aimed at curbing international drug trafficking through Ghana’s ports.
The four suspects, whose identities have not yet been disclosed, are currently in NACOC custody as investigations continue.
A private legal practitioner and member of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Abraham Amaliba, has wondered what authorities were doing under the previous administration, for which there was no news of the interception of cocaine and arrest of the barons.
To him, the authorities are currently doing a good job, hence the constant arrest of the drug dealers.
The Director of the Road Safety Authority said, “Ghana has long been recognised as a transit point when it comes to drugs, then we became a user.
“In recent times, you have realised that the security agencies are doing so much work to arrest these drug barons.
“If in 3 months they can make this number of arrests, more than the past 8 years in the previous administration, is it that in the past 8 years the state agencies were not up to the task. What were they doing in the past 8 years? They were not making these arrests, and now, in just three months, they are making arrests.”
