Minority to file motion on cocaine saga

The Minority in Parliament has disclosed that it will present a motion to the House for a bi-partisan committee to be set up to investigate the trafficking of cocaine from the Kotoka International Airport to London’s Heathrow International Airport by one Nayele Ametefe and two others.

The Minority was directed by the Speaker on Tuesday, November 25 to make a statement on the matter instead of, according to Speaker Doe Adjaho, the brandishing of a bag of rice on the floor as done by the Deputy Minority Leader, Dominic Nitiwul.

Addressing journalists on Wednesday, Mr Nitiwul said the Minority has decided to rather lay before the House a motion instead of a statement.

“If it is just a statement, it does not carry that weight,” the Bimbilla Constituency Member of Parliament said.

He said the motion will enjoin “every Ghanaian [or] anybody who has information concerning this matter to contribute.”

Ms Ametefe, 32, was arrested on Monday, November 10 and is scheduled to be arraigned in a British court on Thursday, November 27.

Minority Leader Osei-Kyei Mensah-Bonsu described the turn-out of events as “national embarrassment”.

“There are indeed more questions than answers in this national embarrassment,” he said, adding that the “philippic responses” government functionaries give on the matter “is not comical to a nation in deep financial and economic distress”.

He accused the Foreign Minister of being disingenuous with the truth especially regarding the two other ladies on board the flight with Ms Ametefeh.