"Coke Report" Classified?

MP questions basis for non-disclosure of Woode Committee’s report

The MP for Tamale Central has described as indefensible the non disclosure of the content of the Justice Georgina Woode Committee’s report on investigations into the cocaine scandals.

Inusah Fuseini says judging from the huge public interest in the cocaine affair and the integrity of the Committee’s work, it would have been most appropriate for the Committee to have made, at the very least, snippets of its report public at the handing over ceremony.

The Justice Georgina Woode Committee presented its report to the Interior Minister, Albert Kan-Dapaah last Friday after two months of investigations into the loss of parcels of cocaine on the MV Benjamin vessel in Tema.

The Committee also investigated allegations that some top Police officers including the Deputy Director of the Criminal Investigations Department, Patrick Ampewuah, took bribes to foil the prosecution of two Venezuelans arrested for dealing in narcotics.

The Interior Minister said the findings would be made public after the Attorney-General’s office had studied the report. But Mr. Fuseini told JOY NEWS that the non-disclosure of the findings at the handing over ceremony is unacceptable and likely to dent public confidence when it is finally made public.