Minority Leader and Member of Parliament for Effutu in the Central Region, Alexander Kwamena Afenyo-Markin, has defended his description of Ghana as a cocaine hub, saying it was a metaphor.
He says the comment should not be interpreted as a factual allegation requiring him to provide evidence.
According to him, the remark was intended to provide context to concerns about cocaine allegedly passing through Ghana’s borders and comments about possible official involvement.
Speaking on Adom TV on Tuesday, September 29, 2026, Afenyo-Markin noted that repeated incidents involving cocaine allegedly passing through Ghana’s borders, coupled with arrests, raise questions about border controls and claims of official complicity.
“If you are allowing your corridors to be flooded with cocaine and every now and then there are arrests, cocaine passes through your borders without any proper checks, when your own Cabinet Minister comes to say that, one, there are government officials involved, and two, the foreign partners don’t trust Ghana because they feel that our system is compromised,” he said.
He added that “what you are telling us is that you have created a lab for a cocaine business to thrive. It is not a matter of evidence. The statement was what I will call metaphorical; it was a metaphor.”
He explained that by hub, he meant Ghana could become a transshipment point if cocaine is brought in and moved onward.
“So the language used was a metaphor and basically situating what we find out ourselves in a certain context. If you allow your corridors to be used and it gets out of control, obviously you are creating a hub for that business to be processed,” he said.
Afenyo-Markin maintained that the Minority was only reechoing what the Interior Minister had already said.
“So what the Minority said, they were only reechoing what the Minister of Interior has said,” he added.
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