The Minority in Parliament is demanding a full-scale parliamentary inquiry into what it describes as Ghana’s descent into a narcotics transit hub under the Mahama-led NDC administration.
In a press statement signed by the Ranking Member on the Defence and Interior Committee, John Ntim Fordjour, on Sunday, September 13, 2026, the Minority said Ghana has featured in major narcotics trafficking cases both at home and abroad in the last eighteen months, with seizures linked to the country now exceeding US$1 billion.
The Minority catalogued a series of local seizures to back its claim. According to the statement, on March 4, 2025, the National Intelligence Bureau intercepted a tipper truck at Pedu Junction in Cape Coast carrying over 3.3 tonnes of cocaine concealed beneath sand.
The consignment, which was en route from Takoradi to Accra, had an estimated street value of over US$350 million. Within the same period, a second consignment of about 120 slabs of cocaine, valued at approximately US$150 million, was also intercepted along the Takoradi–Cape Coast highway.
It added that on August 5, 2026, the Tema Regional Police Command seized 866 parcels of suspected cocaine concealed in sacks of gari at a warehouse within the Tema Harbour enclave, valued at US$6.9 million.
The Minority also cited two unresolved incidents. One involves the landing at the Kotoka International Airport on or around March 20, 2025, of aircraft alleged to be carrying narcotics and undeclared US currency from Gran Canaria.
The other is the MV Sankofa affair of July 2025, in which a vessel found sailing under a forged flag and liable to a fine of almost GH¢12 million was released by the Ghana Maritime Authority after payment of only a fraction of the amount, without full inspection of its cargo, only to be arrested days later in Senegal carrying narcotics.
On foreign seizures linked to Ghana, the Minority pointed to two cases. It said on June 18, 2026, Australian customs authorities seized 320kg of methamphetamine, valued at US$261 million, concealed in a charcoal consignment traced to Ghana.
And on September 10, 2026, French customs officers at the port of Dunkirk seized nearly 3.9 metric tonnes of cocaine, valued at over US$260 million, concealed in a container of plastic waste that had departed Ghana.
“Taken together, high-profile seizures linked to Ghana under this NDC administration now stand at well over US$1 billion in under two years,” the statement said.
The Minority argued that international drug enforcement agencies have long estimated that only about one in ten consignments of trafficked narcotics is ever intercepted, and said Ghanaians should be allowed to draw their own conclusions about the volume of narcotics that may be moving through Ghana’s ports, airports and waters undetected.
It also raised concerns about prosecutions following local seizures. In the Pedu Junction case, the Minority said more than a year after the seizure, only the driver, a housemaid and a handful of peripheral suspects have been arraigned and remain on bail, while the financiers and high-profile dealers behind the shipment remain unidentified.
“This pattern – in which couriers, drivers, mates, and freight-forwarding agents are paraded before the courts while the true owners of these consignments walk free – raises serious questions about the seriousness, independence, and reach of investigations under this Government,” the Minority said.
The Caucus further accused key state agencies of silence, saying Ghana’s port authorities have offered no public account of the Dunkirk seizure, NACOC has been “conspicuously quiet,” and the Ghana Maritime Authority has never explained the irregular discount and release granted to the MV Sankofa.
It said the frequency and scale of narcotics-related incidents and the silence of mandated agencies “should be of grave concern to all well-meaning Ghanaians.”
Accordingly, the Minority is demanding an independent parliamentary inquiry into possible complicity, negligence or failure of oversight on the part of the Ministry of the Interior, Ministry of Transport, NACOC leadership, Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority, Ghana Immigration Service and the Bureau of National Investigations.
It wants sector ministers and heads of the agencies to be summoned before Parliament to account for the status and outcome of investigations into every seizure listed.
It also wants reasons why prosecutions have targeted only low-level couriers, the circumstances surrounding the release of MV Sankofa including who authorised the reduced fine, and concrete measures being taken to secure Ghana’s ports, airports and territorial waters.
“Ghana’s international reputation, and the safety of our young people from the scourge of narcotics, cannot be held hostage to official silence or political convenience. The Minority will not relent until the truth is known and those found responsible are held accountable,” the statement added.
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