{"id":67415,"date":"2014-11-22T07:23:20","date_gmt":"2014-11-22T07:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=67415"},"modified":"2014-11-22T07:41:50","modified_gmt":"2014-11-22T07:41:50","slug":"nacob-board-dissolved-cocaine-saga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=67415","title":{"rendered":"NACOB board dissolved over cocaine saga"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President John Mahama has dissolved the governing board of the Narcotics Control Board (NACOB).<\/p>\n<p>This comes a day after the Communications Minister Dr. Omane Boamah said on <strong>Citi FM<\/strong> that <a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2014\/11\/21\/nacob-is-lying-omane-boamah\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong>NACOB did not play any role<\/strong><\/span><\/a> in the arrest of a cocaine courier, Nayele Ametefe, even though NACOB had claimed it was involved.<\/p>\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;V6Bpa0RpsLmSrPqfccyapQoJK2lzIJcm&#8221;]A press statement signed by the Deputy Executive Secretary of NACOB said\u00a0Nayele \u201cwas arrested on the November 10, 2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2014\/11\/17\/cocaine-woman-traveled-with-austrian-passport-nacob\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong>through the collaborative effort of the Narcotics Control Board (NACOB) and its British partners<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But UK authorities on Friday also said they <a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2014\/11\/21\/we-didnt-collaborate-with-nacob-uk-authorities\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong>did not work with NACOB to arrest the woman<\/strong><\/span><\/a> and that they did not have any idea Ms Ametefe was travelling to the UK with about 12kg of cocaine in her hand luggage.<\/p>\n<p>According to a release issued by the Chief of Staff Prosper Bani, further actions &#8220;will follow in due course.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Nayele Ametefe was arrested on 10th November, 2014 at the Heathrow Airport with the cocaine with street value estimated to be several hundred thousands of Pounds.<\/p>\n<p>She is currently in the custody of the UK security agencies and expected to appear in court again on November 27.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By: Nana Boakye-Yiadom\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President John Mahama has dissolved the governing board of the Narcotics Control Board (NACOB). This comes a day after the Communications Minister Dr. Omane Boamah said on Citi FM that NACOB did not play any role in the arrest of a cocaine courier, Nayele Ametefe, even though NACOB had claimed it was involved. [contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;V6Bpa0RpsLmSrPqfccyapQoJK2lzIJcm&#8221;]A [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":3989,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[43,38],"class_list":["post-67415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-foresight-medical-center","tag-palaver-newspaper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67415\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}