Less than three days after the discovery of a US$260 million cocaine shipment linked to Ghana, President John Dramani Mahama and his government have come under increasing public pressure to set up a full-scale independent investigative panel and release the names of all drug suspects and persons of interests including government officials who allegedly facilitated drug trafficking.
In a 3-page letter dated September 13, 2026 and signed by a ranking opposition member of parliament John Ntim Fordjour, the minority lawmakers said the latest seizure is alarmingly unacceptable.
According to the Minority or opposition lawmakers, the seizures of narcotics linked to Ghana under President Mahama have a combined value of well over $1 billion in less than two years.
The opposition accused state agencies, including the Narcotics Control Commission (NACOC), of what it termed as “conspicuously quiet” and “Silent” about ongoing investigations.
The government has also come under fire from civil society activists and journalists who continue to demand answers and ask the hard questions. They claim that Ghanaians deserve to know which government officials are being investigated for allegedly facilitating drug trafficking.
A renowned Lawyer and activist, Kwesi Botchway, is demanding the government to immediately disclose the names of Government officials implicated in the cocaine bust. Botchway held an official press conference in Accra.
“Why has the government not named them. Disclose the names of Government officials who are implicated. The government categorically mentioned that government officials are undergoing investigation for facilitating the shipment of narcotics. So, why have these persons not been named. We demand answers. We demand the immediate release of the names of these persons. It is unacceptable for the government to tell the parliament that some people in the system were involved with narcotics shipment of this magnitude and then gives us the excuse that investigations are ongoing. Ongoing investigations cannot be a permanent hiding place for politically inconvenient information. We find the government’s posture on this matter seriously troubling…” Atty. Lawrence Kwesi Botchway, Jr., Ghanaian Lawyer and Activist.
