Ghana is becoming a Cocaine Coast. That is no longer an insult from the opposition. That is what the facts on the ground are saying.

In the last 18 months, our country has been linked to one major cocaine seizure after another. In Ghana, in Europe, and in the Middle East.

Let us look at the record:

*March 2025:* 3,319kg of cocaine buried under sand in a tipper truck at Pedu Junction, Cape Coast. Value: over $350 million.

*June 2025:* Nearly 4,500kg hidden in wood, seized in Amsterdam. The largest seizure ever recorded at that port.

*November 2025:* 2,829kg hidden in cassava flour from Tema, seized in Antwerp.

*December 2025:* Another 1,158kg seized in Antwerp.

*August 2026:* 866 parcels hidden in sacks of gari at Tema Harbour. Value: $6.9 million.

*September 2026:* Nearly 4 tonnes hidden in a container declared as plastic waste from Ghana, seized in Dunkirk, France. Value: €225 million.

*October 2026:* 46.7kg seized from a man who flew from Accra to Beirut. The largest cocaine seizure in the history of Beirut airport.

*November 2026:* 2.6 tonnes hidden in coconuts loaded at Tema Port, seized in Spain.

In total, about 3.6 tonnes seized in Ghana, and over 12 tonnes traced to Ghana seized abroad. Value between $1.3 billion and $1.7 billion.

Mr. President, this is worrying. Very worrying.

*We Are No Longer Just A Transit Point*

NACOC itself has admitted it. Ghana is no longer merely a transit corridor for South American cocaine going to Europe. We now have rising local consumption.

Drug-related arrests surged by 197% in 2025. Cocaine is now found in our bus stations, in Wa, in Kumasi, in Accra. Our youth are becoming consumers, not just bystanders.

When drugs enter a country at this scale, they do not leave the country alone. They bring addiction, crime, money laundering, corruption, and violence.

*Seizures Without Convictions Mean Nothing*

This is the most painful part. Despite all these billions of cedis worth of cocaine seized, no one has yet been convicted in connection with any major cocaine seizure.

How can we seize 3.3 tonnes in Cape Coast and nobody is in jail? How can we seize tonnes in Tema and Antwerp and Dunkirk, and the masterminds are still walking free in Ghana?

Seizures without convictions do not scare traffickers. They only teach them to change their hiding method - from wood, to cassava flour, to gari, to coconuts, to plastic waste.

*Where Is The Roadmap?*

After the Dunkirk seizure in September, President John Mahama set up an inter-agency task force and asked it to produce a roadmap to fix this problem.

Mr. President, Ghanaians are asking: Where is that roadmap?

That roadmap was supposed to be delivered weeks ago. It has missed its deadline. Meanwhile, another 2.6 tonnes from Tema has been seized in Spain.

We cannot fight drug cartels with press statements and task forces that do not report.

*What Ghanaians Want To Know:*

1. When will the task force roadmap be made public?
2. Who are the big men behind these shipments? When will they be prosecuted?
3. Why is screening at Tema Port and Kotoka International Airport failing repeatedly?
4. What is the government doing about foreign partners who say they cannot share intelligence with Ghana because of leaks?
5. What is the plan to stop local consumption among our youth?

Ghana wants to be a trade and logistics hub. Ghana wants to attract investors. Ghana wants its farmers to export coconuts, cassava, and gari without their containers being treated as suspected drug shipments in Europe.

But if Tema Port gains a reputation as a Cocaine Port, every legitimate Ghanaian exporter will suffer. They will face more delays, more inspections, more costs, and more suspicion.

Mr. President, this is not an NPP issue. This is not an NDC issue. This is a Ghana issue.

The women selling in Makola, the farmers in the Volta Region, the students in our schools, the youth looking for jobs - they all deserve a country that is not known as a Cocaine Coast.

We commend NACOC, the Police, and the NIB for the seizures. But seizures alone are not victory.

We need convictions. We need a public roadmap. We need accountability from the heads of NACOC, Ghana Airports Company, Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority, and National Security.

Ghana is at a crossroads. We must act now, before the name "Cocaine Coast" sticks to us permanently.