The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has told its members to guard their luggage at Ghana’s airports and seaports, claiming without evidence that people tied to the ruling National Democratic Congress might slip cocaine or other drugs into their bags.
The advisory, which Henry Nana Boakye, one of the party’s national vice chairmen, posted on X on Saturday, November 14, offers no proof that party members have been targeted, or that a plan of that kind exists.
His statement says President John Mahama’s government has become “very desperate” as its handling of drug cases faces scrutiny.
It claims “elements affiliated to the NDC may go any length to rope in innocent members and sympathizers of the NPP just to equalize for their horrible record“.
Lawyer Kofi Bentil said on TV3’s Key Points on Saturday that people were colluding to traffic drugs and Ghana was “beginning to look like a failed state”.
The advisory urges NPP travellers to remain alert to “unlawful interference with their luggage” by “unscrupulous individuals”.
The NDC, the government and NACOC had not responded publicly to the advisory by Saturday evening. On November 4, an NDC official told government to ignore the NPP’s calls for sackings.
