Ghana At Risk Of Being Used As Major Drug Transit Point - Minority Warns

The Minority in Parliament has warned that Ghana risks being seen and used as a major transit point for illicit drugs if decisive action is not taken.

Addressing the press, the Ranking Member on Parliament’s Defence and Interior Committee, Hon. John Ntim Fordjour, said traffickers choose the path of least resistance and every consignment that goes through undetected sends a signal to cartels that Ghana’s harbours and ports are porous.

"Every prosecution that stops at the couriers tells them that the risk is low," he stated.

According to him, a country that acquires such a reputation does not merely embarrass itself, but attracts greater danger at home.

"Transit routes do not stay clean. Wherever drugs move, some remain behind. They spill into local markets, into our communities, our campuses and our streets," he said.

He warned that young people will ultimately pay the price for what is left behind, with a generation that should be building the country being damaged by addiction, drawn into crime and lost to opportunity.

"Ghana has too much to lose to treat this as a distant problem for someone else's coastline," Hon. Fordjour added.