The Member of Parliament for Yendi, Abdul-Fatawu Alhassan, has accused the National Organiser of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Henry Nana Boakye, popularly known as Nana B, of using recent drug-trafficking concerns as a political campaign tool ahead of the party’s National Delegates Conference.
According to him, Nana Boakye’s allegations that drug traffickers have established clandestine laboratories in Ghana appear calculated to generate public attention as he campaigns for the position of First Vice Chairman of the NPP.
Speaking on Breakfast Daily on Channel One TV on Wednesday, September 23, Abdul-Fatawu Alhassan urged Nana Boakye to concentrate on his campaign rather than use the drug-trafficking controversy to advance his political ambitions.
“I see Nana B trying to use this issue as a springboard. In fact, my candid advice is that he should go and do his campaign and not try to use this cheap means,” he said.
He argued that if the NPP National Organiser had credible information about such facilities, he should make the information available to the appropriate security and investigative agencies.
“We will not arrest him tomorrow and then they will say, ‘Oh, Nana B has been arrested on this cocaine,’ and then his popularity soars, and then he goes to win. He should go and campaign. In fact, if anything at all, if they will even invite him, they should invite him after the elections when obviously he would have lost his position,” he said.
His comments followed allegations made by Nana Boakye at an NPP press conference on Tuesday, September 22, that drug traffickers had established laboratories in Ghana to process narcotics for export.
Nana Boakye claimed that the alleged facilities were operating under the watch of the government and linked them to recent drug seizures involving consignments traced to Ghana in countries including France, Australia and South Africa.
He also alleged that some government officials were facilitating the movement of narcotics out of the country, describing the recent cases as part of a broader pattern requiring accountability.
