The growing movement of illicit drugs through our borders and exit points. The scale of recent seizures and reported consignments raises serious questions about whether our country is merely being used as a transit route or is gradually becoming an established hub for the international drug trade.
How can consignments of cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine and other prohibited substances of significant size pass through our ports and airports without detection?
At our airports, passengers can have ordinary liquids and perfumes exceeding 100ml removed from their hand luggage because of strict security protocols. Yet we continue to hear of much larger consignments of dangerous narcotics making their way out of the country.
So, who screened these consignments? Who inspected them? What did the scanners show? Were they detected? If they were detected, what action was taken? And if they were not detected, why did our systems fail?
These are not unreasonable questions. They are questions of national security, institutional accountability and public trust, and the Ghanaian people deserve clear and credible answers.
We must not allow gaps in our security systems, corruption or institutional negligence, wherever they may exist to turn Ghana into a safe haven or dependable transit hub for international drug traffickers.
Our country deserves stronger safeguards, greater accountability and a determined effort to ensure that Ghana never becomes synonymous with Pablo Escobar-style drug operations.
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