12 Months Of Cocaine Deals : Minority Demands Probe

The Minority in Parliament is demanding a full parliamentary inquiry into Ghana’s emergence as a major narcotics transit hub, following the seizure of nearly 3.9 metric tonnes of cocaine worth over $260 million at the French port of Dunkirk on September 10.

The cocaine was concealed in a container of plastic waste that had departed from Ghana.

In a press statement issued Sunday on behalf of the Minority Caucus, Rev. John Ntim Fordjour, the Assin South Member of Parliament, said the seizure was part of a “disturbing twelve-month pattern” that includes the June 2026 seizure of 320kg of methamphetamine worth $261 million in Australia, hidden in a charcoal consignment also traced to Ghana.

The statement said “The frequency, scale, and brazenness with which narcotic drugs are being transited through Ghana under the watch of the Mahama-led NDC Government, and the silence of the very agencies mandated to stop it should be of grave concern to any well-meaning Ghanaian.”

“These are not isolated incidents,” Fordjour said. “Ghana is fast becoming a cocaine coast.”

The Minority also cited the unresolved MV Sankofa affair of July 2025, in which a vessel sailing under a forged flag was released by the Ghana Maritime Authority after paying a fraction of a GH¢12 million fine, only to be arrested days later in Senegal carrying narcotics.

“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.

Applying international drug enforcement estimates that nine out of every ten consignments pass undetected, the Minority warned the true volume of narcotics trafficked through Ghana could be around $9 billion.

The Minority demanded:

An independent parliamentary inquiry into possible complicity or negligence by the Ministry of Interior, Ministry of Transport, NACOC, Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority, Ghana Immigration Service and BNI.

A full public account of the MV Sankofa’s release, including who authorised the reduced fine.

Publication of any security risk assessment behind the Ghana–Colombia port agreement announced in March 2026.

A statement to Parliament by responsible Ministers on measures to secure Ghana’s borders.

“The silence of the very agencies mandated to stop it should be of grave concern to any well-meaning Ghanaian,” Fordjour said.