In 2009, a drug courier, William Amo-Darko, was arrested by Dennis Adutwum Gyima a NACOB official. On Darko’s arrest, he told Dennis that he was being assisted by a National Security Officer at the airport to pass through the departure formalities.

He said the assisting officer by name Nii at the airport had been paid by the baron to help him out. Nii was arrested and sent to NACOB office that night. The next morning, Mr. Gbevlo Lartey called Mr. Yaw Akrasi Sarpong that Nii was his boy so he should be released with immediate effect. Nii is now walking as a freeman whilst Darko is languishing in jail.

Also in 2010, a NACOB junior staff by name Samuel Anomboadi was on duty at the Aviance Cargo Village, when about hundred (100) boxes of food stuffed with cannabis sealed in the boxes was checked by the said Sammy and was impounded at the scanner room. The agent was arrested, the owner also was later on arrested and about two of his cars were seized by NACOB. He is Alfred Duah Mensah. He, as well as the agent told the arresting officer, Sammy, that the NACOB investigation officer had taken USD 10000.00 to aid the drugs pass without any trouble.

When a committee was set up, Sammy was suspended for 2 months without pay. Later he was asked to go home for a month without salary. Around the same time, NDC was having their congress in Sunyani, that is in July, 2011. The Executive Secretary of NACOB, Yaw Akrasi Sarpong and the Board Chairman, Asase Gyimah, Recruited Sammy and paid him huge sums of money to run errands for the party.

A month later he was recalled and redeployed back to the KIA/Aviance at the same position. Sammy is a close associate of the Ahwois. Was this not enough evidence [for him] to have been tried with together with the agent and Duah? A remand prisoner by name Catherine Oduro was arrested in May 2011. Upon her arrest, Yaw Akrasi Sarpong told her to keep quiet and plead guilty in court. He further told her that she would be sentenced to a maximum of 10 years. He will make sure she spends 3 months and would send her back to France where she is a citizen. She was arrested with 18kgs of cocaine in a bag.

The circuit court requested from the prosecution to produce the evidence the NACOB staff impounded for the trial to commence, but nothing has been produced. This is about the 8th adjournment with no evidence produced.

Interestingly the board chairman Asase Gyimah and the Deputy Executive Secretary, Enforcement/Control who was behind the arrest and doubled as investigation officer have had to comb the prison to bring convicts and remand prisoners like Ernest Jantuah and Robert Fynn to court.

Catherine Oduro promised them huge sums of money if they agreed to cook stories against the 10 arrested NACOB officials who are thought to be NPP sympathizers, but all have agreed not to do it.

Again, the Deputy Executive Secretary took $1500 from Jacqueline Jordan’s relation to assist in granting her bail. How come the case has been transferred from a high court in Accra to a magistrate’s court in Osu? Who is behind this? Jacqueline’s CID also took $2000.00 from her cousins before bailing her.

Dickson Akatsa, head of enforcement has also taken huge sums of money from Elizabeth Owusu’s mother under the pretext of helping her out.

The same Dickson Akatsa took an amount of $5000.00 for the release of her Brother, Gideon Owusu’s passport. The money was contributed by the family and Naana handed over to Akatsa.

The same Akatsa is behind the escape of Felicia Stewart Smith who was arrested at the KIA in 2010 from Accra psychiatric hospital.

When she was arrested, she mentioned the name of her accomplice as Nana Kwadwo Nsiah, a prominent businessman in Kumasi. Nsiah was arrested and four of his cars seized. About a week later, he was discharged by Akatsa and his cars handed over to after he took large sums of money.

In 2009, there were to be an operation in Kumasi with some Kumasi based Policemen. On the day of the operation, Akatsa did not show up, so NACOB Operatives called him and he told them the operation is cancelled with no reason. It was found out that he went to a Kumasi based baron and collected $36000.

Akrasi Sarpong confidently advised the western regional NACOB Command to allow some drug barons to do their own thing and whilst doing this they should arrest anybody that doesn’t compromise.

Asase Gyimah has a link with Kumasi based Drug Barons. The last of the NACOB officers arrested was picked because; he had gone to report to the Board Chairman Deputy Executive Secretary about the nefarious activities of the investigation team in the office. They usually swap the tested drugs with other local substances at the point of burning and the officer who issues the certificate of destruction is not called to witness the said destructions.

Under the watchful eyes of Akrasi Sarpong and Asase Gyimah, the drug education unit (precursor unit) team have recently enriched themselves. They do this by underestimating the drugs imported into the country and take huge sums from importers. This unit was initially under one lady, but she was removed and replaced by a new person because he is a close associate of Akrasi.