Amoateng’s family angry with security agencies

The children and family of a former Ghanaian Legislator, who was recently freed from a US jail after serving a 10-year prison term for drug trafficking, are angry with the West African country’s Security Agencies for detaining their father just moments after touching down in the national capital, Accra, on Thursday.

No sooner had Eric Amoateng touched down at the Kotoka International Airport than he was whisked away by officials of Ghana’s Narcotics Control Board for a “routine” interrogation and later handed over to the country’s Bureau of National Investigations, Criminal Investigations Department and the Immigration Service, for investigations relating to passport fraud allegations leveled against him.

The philanthropist, allegedly, obtained his passport with which he returned to Ghana fraudulently while he was serving time in the US jail.

Documents for the passport in question, apparently, belonged to a young lady, according to security checks.

Amoateng therefore spent the night in the custody of Ghanaian security agencies pending further investigations into the allegation.

His fresh troubles thwarted what his family, constituency members and well-wishers had anticipated would have been a happy reunion after a long time apart.

The former Nkoranza North Legislator was arrested in the United States on December 11, 2005 for illegal possession of 136 pounds of heroin with a street value of about six million dollars. He later resigned from Parliament, and was tried in the US and later imprisoned.