Cocaine Disappearance: Tagor wanted audience with Asantehene

Accra, Aug. 1, GNA - Alhaji Moro Mohammed, a car dealer based in Kumasi, on Monday told the Georgina Woode Committee Investigating the disappearance of parcels of cocaine from a ship that docked at Tema that one Kwabena Amaning alias Tagor in May 2006 asked him to assist him to seek audience with the Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II over an alleged cocaine issue.

Moro, who was giving his evidence in chief before the Committee at a public hearing in Accra, said Tagor came to Kumasi to seek his assistance to have an audience with the Asantehene at the Manhyia Palace over an issue, which Tagor was reluctant initially to disclose to him (Moro).

Moro said he refused to lead Tagor to have audience with the King because he was reluctant to give him a hint about the issue he wanted to discuss with the Ashantehene.

"I told him that if he (Tagor) would not let me know why he wanted to see the Asantehene, then I would not allow him in and I instructed the security not to allow him in and then drove away," he said.
According to Moro, Tagor followed him to his workplace around the City Hotel, where he eventually told him that Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP), Mr Kofi Boakye had sent some Police Officers to his house to arrest him, because it was being alleged that he was dealing in cocaine business.
"I told him that he was lucky that I did not allow him to seek audience with the Ashantehene, because if I had attempted, the Ashantehene would have caused our (Tagor and Myself) arrest," Moro said. Moro said he, therefore, urged him to go home and sleep while he pondered over the issue.
He said the next day he told Tagor that the issue was not his kind of issues, but because of the way he approached him, crying even at a point in time, he would try and seek audience with ACP Boakye on his behalf. Moro said he called ACP Boakye on phone about the issue, but the ACP said it was not an issue to be discussed on phone so he should proceed to the Police Headquarters for a proper discussion.
He said he travelled down to Accra the next day and met ACP Boakye at his office as scheduled, but ACP Boakye said he had to inform his superior officers about the issue, which he did.
Moro said ACP Boakye later mentioned Alhaji Abass's name in connection with the issue and he Moro said if all these people were involved then it was better they went home to discuss the issue since they all knew each other.
Moro said it was at this juncture that ACP Boakye organized a meeting in his house with him Moro, Tagor and Alhaji Abass.
He said immediately Alhaji Abass got to the scene and saw Tagor, he became infuriated and they all had to intervene to calm tempers. Moro said it was at that meeting he asked all the people around to speak the truth so that the issue at stake could be resolved once and for all.
Moro said it was then that Tagor told the meeting that a Mafia group based in Colombia was trailing him.
"I said if that was the case, then I would have nothing to do with the issue, since it was higher than I thought.=94 He said he then left the meeting and drove off to Kumasi.