The New Patriotic Party has called for the immediate removal of heads of key state institutions following a series of major narcotics seizures involving consignments linked to Ghana.
The party’s National Organiser, Henry Nana Boakye, popularly known as Nana B, said the scale and frequency of the reported seizures required the government to take decisive action against officials responsible for Ghana’s ports, airports, maritime security, intelligence and narcotics control.
Addressing a press conference in Accra on Tuesday, September 22, Nana B said the NPP believed the government had failed to respond adequately to a growing drug trafficking problem.
He demanded the removal of the heads of the Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority, Ghana Maritime Authority, Ghana Shippers Authority, Narcotics Control Commission (NACOC), National Intelligence Bureau, Ghana Airport Company Limited, Customs Division and the Criminal Investigations Department (CID).
“The Director General, Ghana Ports and Harbors Authority, he must be sacked. The Director General, Ghana Maritime Authority, this person must be fired. The Chief Executive Officer, Ghana Shippers Authority, this person must go,” he said.
“The Director General, Narcotics Control Commission and the deputies, they must all go. National Security Coordinator, Director General, National Intelligence Bureau, the Managing Director, Ghana Airport Company Limited, the Commissioner General, Customs Division, and the CID boss. She has really displayed one competence. All of them must be sacked.”
Nana B argued that the reported seizures demonstrated weaknesses in Ghana’s border and cargo-control systems, particularly at the country’s ports.
He questioned why major consignments linked to Ghana were being intercepted outside the country, citing seizures reported in France, Australia, the Netherlands, Belgium and South Africa.
According to him, the NPP had identified 12 major narcotics-related incidents between 2025 and September 2026 involving Ghana, with an estimated combined street value exceeding US$1 billion.
He said the incidents involved various concealment methods, including sand-filled tipper trucks, food products, charcoal, plastic waste, cargo boxes and passenger luggage.
“The pattern is unmistakable. Ghana is being used as a transit hub for illicit drugs. The method is becoming increasingly sophisticated,” Nana B said.
He also questioned the continued tenure of an official at the Tema port, alleging that the officer’s contract had been extended despite the reported drug trafficking concerns.
“You cannot stand before the cameras in the morning declaring war on drugs and in the evening reward inefficiency with an extension,” he said.
The NPP National Organiser further called for a public account of the financiers and organisers behind the reported trafficking operations, rather than focusing only on suspects arrested in individual cases.
