Private legal practitioner and member of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Abraham Amaliba, has raised serious concerns over how seized narcotics are handled in Ghana, calling for greater transparency from the authorities.
Speaking on TV3’s Keypoints program, Amaliba questioned the current processes surrounding the disposal of confiscated drugs.
“I think that they need to tell us how these drugs are disposed of. I want to know what happened to the earlier consignment, have they been destroyed?” he asked.
Amaliba’s comments come in the wake of heightened activities by security agencies, who have made numerous arrests connected to drug trafficking in the last three months.
He pointed out that the recent surge in arrests surpasses the performance over the past eight years.
“Ghana has long been recognised as a transit point when it comes to drugs, then we became a user. In recent times, you have realised that the security agencies are doing so much work to arrest these drug barons,” he noted.
“If in 3 months they can make this number of arrests, more than the past 8 years in the previous administration, is it that in the past 8 years the state agencies were not up to the task?
“What were they doing in the past 8 years? They were not making these arrests, and now, in just three months, they are making arrests.”
