Kofi Boakye Breaks Silence on Cocaine Scandal

.Insists Tagor & Issa Abass Are Drug Barons

.As He Takes Swipe At NPP Regime

Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) Kofi Boakye has finally broken his silence on the mysterious disappearance of the 76 sacks of cocaine from the shipping vessel MV Benjamin and referred to Issa Abbas and Kwabena Amaning alias Tagor as “known drug barons”.

Narrating his side of the cocaine scandal to his friends in far away Europe, ACP Boakye alleged the Kufuor-led government’s complicity in the scandal with a revelation that even though ex-cocaine-convicts Issa Abass and Tagor are known drug barons, they were good pals of the previous regime.

Mr. Boakye, who now heads the Police Training School at Tesano here in Accra, says Isa Abass in particular supplied police vehicles to the NPP-led government whilst Tagor was a very good friend to the administration.

In what appears to be his first-ever public comment on the scandal which threw him out of job for a long time, ACP Boakye told his friends that the brouhaha about his meeting with Isa Abass, Tagor, Kwabena Acheampong, Alhaji Moro and the rest was uncalled for because as then head of police operations, he met regularly with such miscreants with the view of getting information to nail them.

“...I want to assure you people that I meet armed robbers, and they know I meet armed robbers. They give me money and I put armed robbers in hotels so that we can use them to arrest armed robbers”.

“Atta Ayi was arrested because armed robbers gave me information. I go to prisons, take remand prisoners and work with them so what was different from meeting the cocaine dealers who are known to the system”.

Kofi Boakye said, “Issa was a supplier of police vehicles for government, Tagor was a good friend of the establishment. So even if I want to do cocaine, I won’t be doing it with these people. He alleged there are other nationals in the country who are also involved in the drug trade who could have been better partners than Tagor and Issa Abbas.

“The only thing is that cocaine came; information was given to the government that this is cocaine but they didn’t do anything about it, and when I decided to enquire, they sent people to tape me. Please go back and everybody listen to the tape; where did I go wrong”?, he asked his audience rhetorically.

Deep throat sources close to Mr. Boakye say he has since the cocaine scandal, which almost ended his enviable police career, been looking for an opportunity to vent his spleen and expose some bigwigs he claim are involved in the drug trade but has constantly been prevailed upon to hold his horses.

ACP Kofi Boakye’s acclaimed interdiction was revoked by ex-President Kufuor on the eve of his exit from office but it took lots of back and forth to get him back to wear the police uniform. (More to come).

By Larry-Alans Dogbey