Taking center stage at the New Patriotic Party’s highly anticipated press conference on Tuesday afternoon, National Organiser Henry Nana Boakye delivered a blistering critique of the government’s handling of national security and border control.
Addressing the media in Accra, Nana Boakye—popularly known as Nana B—accused the Mahama administration of overseeing a catastrophic failure of intelligence that has rapidly turned Ghana into a global transit hub for illicit narcotics.
”Under this government's watch, we are witnessing the tragic rebranding of our proud nation from the historic Gold Coast to the Cocaine Coast,” Nana Boakye declared, setting a fiery tone for the opposition’s address. He expressed utter outrage that state institutions, despite being equipped with modern scanning technology and vast intelligence resources, could allow hundreds of millions of dollars worth of narcotics to pass freely through the country’s main export channels.
Nana Boakye painstakingly detailed the timeline of recent international drug busts, heavily emphasizing the interception of 3.9 tonnes of cocaine in Dunkirk, France, which had been concealed inside a container of plastic waste shipped from Ghana. He argued that the sheer volume and logistics required to move such cargo prove that these trafficking networks are operating with high-level institutional complicity, rather than relying on isolated, low-level smugglers.
The NPP National Organiser pulled no punches in his criticism of the state’s security apparatus. He challenged the government to explain how the Narcotics Control Commission (NACOC), the Bureau of National Investigations (BNI), and the Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority (GPHA) have consistently failed to detect these massive shipments domestically before foreign intelligence intercepts them abroad.
Closing his address, Nana Boakye reiterated the party’s uncompromising call for an urgent, bipartisan parliamentary probe. He warned that if the executive branch continues its silence and fails to name, shame, and prosecute the high-ranking officials facilitating this trade, Ghana risks facing severe international trade sanctions and a devastating loss of global diplomatic credibility.
