Ranking Member of Parliament’s Defence and Interior Committee, John Ntim Fordjour, has accused the government of failing to act on an earlier warning he raised over suspected cocaine trafficking activities linked to Ghana.
Speaking on Newsfile on Saturday, September 26, 2026, he said he provided security agencies with what he described as credible intelligence but was instead subjected to an attempt to arrest him.
Ntim Fordjour said he raised the alarm on April 1, 2025, after receiving information about flights operated by Carboc Air and AirMed, which he alleged were linked to cocaine and currency trafficking.
He said he provided details of the flights, including their numbers, arrival and departure dates and times, as well as how long the aircraft stayed in Ghana, and called on the relevant security agencies to investigate.
“I raised an alarm when I intercepted a credible intelligence somewhere, 1st April 2025, in the midst of all these two busts, $500 million worth of cocaine,” he said.
According to the MP, authorities instead demanded physical evidence that cocaine was being transported on the aircraft before taking his claims seriously.
He also alleged that more than 50 heavily armed officers later stormed his residence following his public comments, an incident he said terrified his children and traumatised his family.
Ntim Fordjour warned that such incidents could discourage people from sharing information with security agencies, despite repeated appeals for the public to report suspicious activities.
He cited cocaine and methamphetamine seizures in the Netherlands, Belgium, Australia and France as examples of cases he said had links to Ghana.
Among them was the seizure of about 3.9 tonnes of cocaine in Dunkirk, France, on September 10, 2026, which he described as the biggest recent cocaine seizure linked to Ghana.
The MP said the repeated seizures should prompt authorities to investigate how narcotics are entering or moving through Ghana, rather than focusing only on interceptions made after the drugs have left the country.
He also called for high-profile drug cases to result in prosecutions, arguing that the fight against narcotics should be treated as a national security issue rather than a partisan political matter.
