@_GhChronicles Senior lawyer kindly walk us through why think Ibrahim Mahama will be also e in jail if Chairman Wontumi goes to jail. Please educate me on that. Thank you.
@CitizenTechiman Dr. Amin Adam urges BoG and Finance Ministry to explain the impact of restoring GN Savings and Loans’ licence before any decision is made.
Did NPP ask the then president and his f m this question and got it answered before they went ahead to collapse the affected banks.
By now, many of us must have watched the BBC Africa Eye documentary about the crazy opioid crisis starting to overwhelm West Africa.
1. Recap: a chap by name Vinod Sharma runs a pharma company in India called Aveo that has "invented" a poison by mixing two powerful drugs - tapentadol & carisoprodol. The formulation has not been approved anywhere in the world and is thus GLOBALLY ILLEGAL.
2. Aveo and some other Indian companies are flooding countries like Ghana & Nigeria with this concoction under brands such as Timaking, Tafrodol, & Super Royal-225. They are also shipping in ILLEGAL, high-dosage, forms of tapendatol & carisoprodol as standalone drugs.
3. Vinod acknowledges candidly to the undercover journalists that tafrodol, for instance, is poisonous. However, in his words, "it is has become a business."
4. He further reveals that Nigeria has tightened its borders and Ghana is now the easiest channel to get his cute poisons into West Africa (food for thought for all you Ghanaians who think Ghana has the most superior systems in West Africa.)
5. I think I also heard him say that he can churn out 5 million pills at a go. Dude is a machine!
6. All the craziness above, something else , that was not discussed further in the documentary, is what truly blew my mind. Even before the documentary aired. It is Samospharma's role as Ghana's biggest opioid importer.
7. Customs data and intelligence shows that a large chunk of the tafrodol, tapendatol & carisoprodol batches imported into Ghana is financed by Sahelian merchants, mostly based in Niamey. However, one Ghanaian company stands head to toe with them: Samospharma.
8. By November 2024, Samospharma had imported more than $6 million of opioids and other drugs from PRG Pharma of India, for instance. It also imported perfectly legal "eye drops" from the likes of Zuche and Indiana Pharma.
9. As was shown in the documentary, Samospharma and its three founsers are the main business partners of Vinod and Aveo in Ghana, as well as of Aveo's sister company, Westfin. Of the $20 million worth of opioids that Aveo has shipped to the region in recent times, Samospharma was responsible for about 12%.
10. Why was I completely bewildered by this? Three reasons. First, the founders of Samospharma are behind acclaimed platforms like DrugNet, and have been industry advisors to Ghana's national e-pharmacy portal. They are respected in the pharmacy profession for their youthful acumen and public engagements.
11. Second, their core work at DrugNet and through various industry initiatives has focused on tightening supply chain and quality assurance, subjects that I know a bit about. Their involvement in this whole saga simply doesn't add up.
12. Most bewildering of all, they have NOT been smuggling in these opioids. They have been OPENLY importing them into Ghana. Attached, see a list of bills of lading covering some recent shipments. The Ghanaian authorities have been authorising clearance even though Samospharma hasn't registered any of these products with the FDA.
13. I was thus shocked when the authorities attempted to throw the importers under the bus in their interviews with the BBC. It is very clear that Ghana is happily letting these opioid through. Even now. Despite the loud protests about the addiction epidemic opioids are causing. Despite the occasional seizures and bonfires. Ghana's ports remain open.
14. What exactly is the national policy here? 🤷🏾♂️🤷🏾♂️🤷🏾♂️
@SammyGyamfi_ This makes sense. I hope you have shared this with all media house and same has been with the office of the former president. A good example for all political parties to emulate when such things occur.
Southern Ghana will be cloudy this morning with pockets of slight rain. Brighter conditions will follow as the day unfolds.
Sun and cloud will alternate over northern Ghana from morning to afternoon. Cloudy weather with thunderstorms is expected later in the day.
An auditorium full of high school students, pulling off a giant silent ovation to support a classmate with severe autism, makes me think of what might happen if the American people could summon this level of compassion and cooperation.
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