President John Mahama has hinted of plans to review the caliber of people who use the VIP lounge at the Kotoka International Airport, after it was revealed that Nayele Ametefe who was arrested in the UK for carrying cocaine, used that lounge.<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”b2UvgcOeXNAd3mfyXRcTccm8QerbWWop”]The development has cast a slur on the security\u00a0 situation at the airport and Ghana\u2019s efforts to fight the illicit drug trade.<\/p>\n
But speaking on the Good Evening Ghana programme on Metro TV, President John Mahama said: \u201cWe continue to be committed against the fight against drugs. We cannot do it alone, the whole world, there is a collaboration amongst governments to ensure we stop this criminal trade and so we have been collaborating with our international partners in respect of drug arrest.\u201d<\/p>\n
The dismissed Board Chair of the Narcotics Control Board (NACOB) Baffour Assasie-Gyimah in an earlier interview with Citi News<\/strong> said his outfit had raised red flags over the security situation<\/strong><\/span><\/a> at the VIP lounge.<\/p>\n He revealed that the identity of the owner of the scanner at that lounge is still unknown, a situation he said compromises the security situation at the airport.<\/p>\n The President acknowledged the security lapses and said: \u201cWe have to continue to appraise the weaknesses in our system and ensure that we tighten them so that these things don\u2019t happen again.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThe investigative agencies are looking at the circumstances under which the lady was able to do what she did, and we will learn lessons from that and tighten things even further,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n He said one of the major things government would review is how the VIP lounge at the airport is used and who has access to it.<\/p>\n \u201cWe need to really strengthen and tighten that,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Dissolving NACOB Governing Board<\/strong><\/p>\n Mr. Assasie-Gyimah had said in a statement that he feels the dissolution of the board was to sacrifice them for “an angry god.”<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n Government had seriously dented<\/strong><\/span><\/a> the image of NACOB by debunking their claims that they collaborated with British authorities<\/strong><\/span><\/a> to arrest Nayele Ametefe.<\/p>\n