THE COCAINE QUESTIONS NDC ASKED IN THE PAST HAVE COME BACK TO HAUNT THEM
Some decades ago, the NDC knew exactly what questions to ask about cocaine.
On 26 July 2006, Dr. Benjamin Kunbuor, then NDC MP, Ranking Member for Defence and Interior and Minority Spokesperson on Security Matters, issued a statement raising alarm about drug menace. He demanded transparency, a briefing of Parliament, accountability within the security services and a bipartisan parliamentary investigation.
Then on 10 August 2006, NDC General Secretary Asiedu Nketiah returned to the drug issue. His statement questioned whether powerful people were involved, whether investigations could uncover the whole truth and again demanded a bipartisan parliamentary investigation.
Fast forward, the NDC is now in government and the questions it asked have followed it into office.
From the major cocaine seizure at Pedu in 2025, through Ghana linked consignments intercepted abroad, to the Australian meth case, the Tema Harbour case, the nearly 3.9-tonne France case, and now today's reports about cocaine in Wa, the story keeps growing.
So we will use the NDC's own 2006 test
Who owns the drugs? Who finances them? Who facilitates their movement? Who are the people at the top of these networks? How many have been prosecuted? How much drug money has been traced and seized? And what exactly is government doing to make sure Ghana does not become a convenient route for international narcotics?
Arrests and interceptions are important. But catching the person beside the container is not necessarily the same as dismantling the network behind the container.
26 July 2006, Benjamin Kunbuor asked the questions.10 August 2006, Asiedu Nketiah asked them again and 19 September 2026, Ghana deserves answers to those same questions.
Just wrapped up an insightful session with the former Minister for Lands and Natural Resources, former Deputy Chief of Staff, and Member of Parliament for Damongo, Hon. Samuel Abu Jinapor.
This is the TikTok page of the nurse who is being persecuted to appease John Mahama and his wife.
It's obvious she is an innocent woman living a simple life and not much into social media to even talk of politics.
She has just 4 videos on her page and 8 reposts from other accounts mostly animations.
I remember when the SDA Church took a decision that they were not going to vote because the 2024 election was happening on a Saturday. Fast forward, their members are being targeted for political persecution by John Mahama. Let’s pray with them 🙏💔
President Mahama’s greatest agenda is searching for a certain Ghana Jollof not to stop Galamsey, not to deliver Ghana from becoming a Cocaine Hub in recent times, not his flagship 24-hour economy, not the Women's Development Bank, not quality education, not a good health system but just to find Ghana Jollof. Wow😂😂😂😂😂😂
A woman is arrested and her whereabout is unknown to her family. Her family hears about it and calls a lawyer. The lawyer accepts the brief, walks into court and says I represent her. Then we have an MP asking such a bogus question. How does he Bediako represent his clients?
So asking, “When did Baffour Awuah become her lawyer?” is like asking when the doctor became your doctor after you fell sick. Smh.
When the Montie 3 threatened to r@pe the Chief Justice and kill judges of the Supreme Court, and were convicted and jailed, Jane Naana Opoku advocated for their release.
Today, she is Vice President of Ghana and Chairperson of the Ghana Police Council.
Yet an innocent woman was abducted in Techiman, driven to Accra to be interrogated for 5 fricking days, and has now been remanded for 2 weeks, and she’s mum like an Egyptian mummy!
Vice President.
Chairperson of the Ghana Police Council.
You advocated for men who threatened serious crimes against the judiciary, but you are now overseeing the devious abuse of the rights of an innocent mother?!!!
Where are you, Madam Vice President???
✍️Nana Yaw Kesse via Facebook
On 10th June 2025, I remember seeing the newly constituted Police Council and feeling a genuine sense of curiosity.
For the first time, Ghana’s first female Vice President, Professor Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang, was Chairperson of the Police Council. Alongside her sat Lydia Yaako Donkor and Rose Bio Atinga. Three accomplished women at one of the most important tables in our national security architecture.
More than a year later, I find myself asking: what has that representation meant for women when it mattered most?
Occupying powerful positions as women must mean more than representation. It must count when another woman is vulnerable. It must count when state power is being questioned. It must count when a mother is taken from her home at midnight and her family struggles to even establish where she is being held.
Professor Jane Naana, what do you want your legacy as Ghana’s first female Vice President to be?
From the deeply contested removal of former Chief Justice Gertrude Torkornoo, to the arrests and detention of citizens over social-media activity, and now the case of Salomey Awity Baffoe, there have been moments when many women expected to hear your voice. Yet that voice has been painfully absent.
Salomey is a mother of three. She has now been remanded for two weeks over allegations linking her to “Ghana Jollof.” Her lawyers are publicly questioning the basis for her continued detention. Why should it even be an issue to begin with?
Your Excellency, this is one of those moments when power must count.
I respectfully appeal to you: intervene within the lawful powers available to your office and government.
It is a long weekend. Monday is a holiday. Somewhere, a four-year-old child is waiting for his mother.
Use your influence for good. Speak up. Ask the difficult questions. Let Salomey go home to her children.
History will not remember how many powerful tables women sat at. It will remember what they did when they got there.