{"id":70048,"date":"2014-12-01T08:49:09","date_gmt":"2014-12-01T08:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=70048"},"modified":"2014-12-01T08:49:09","modified_gmt":"2014-12-01T08:49:09","slug":"stop-politicizing-cocaine-saga-anglican-primate-ghanaians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=70048","title":{"rendered":"Stop politicizing cocaine saga \u2013 Anglican Primate to Ghanaians\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Anglican Primate of West Africa, Most Reverend Professor Yinkah Sarfo has appealed to Ghanaians to stop\u00a0 politicising \u00a0the Nayale Ametefeh cocaine saga.<\/p>\n<p>Most Reverend Professor Yinkah Sarfo said politicizing the arrest of Nayale Ametefeh makes the fight against drugs complex.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at a special thanksgiving service organized by the opposition NPP to thank God for a successful congress on October 18<sup>th<\/sup>, Most Reverend Professor Yinkah Sarfo said making the recent saga a political issue is an indictment on the fight against the menace.<\/p>\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;YCZGdMmm9jawLqaChHtbm9laIQrKg4S5&#8243;]\u201cFellow Ghanaians let us all come together and fight the drug menace and stop doing politics with it because Ghana\u2019s name is at stake. Ghanaians cannot be taken for granted all the time by politicians. I always say that Ghana is not for politicians alone.It belongs to all of us. Traditional leaders, workers, farmers, women and children and so on are all stakeholders of anything that concerns this our nation,\u201d the Anglican primate said.<\/p>\n<p>Ruby Appiah, alias Nayele Ametefeh was arrested at the Heathrow Airport in the United Kingdom after about 12 kg of cocaine was found in her luggage.<\/p>\n<p>She has pleaded guilty to charges leveled against her.<\/p>\n<p>A former Minister of Interior, Nana Obiri Boahen recently said\u00a0<span style=\"color: #666699;\"><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2014\/11\/25\/cocaine-saga-govt-has-disgraced-itself-obiri-boahen\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>government has tarnished its image<\/strong> <\/a><\/span>by failing to put in place tight security measures to ensure the arrest of Nayele Amtefeh at the Kotoka International Airport.<\/p>\n<p>But the General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Asiedu Nketsiah in a<strong><span style=\"color: #666699;\"><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2014\/11\/27\/mahama-acted-with-supersonic-speed-on-cocaine-saga-asiedu-nketia\/\" target=\"_blank\"> rebuttal urged critics of the government <\/a><\/span><\/strong>to rather turn their fire on public servants working at the Kotoka International Airport.<\/p>\n<p>According to \u00a0him, there is no evidence linking Nayele Ametefe to the NDC or government.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>By: Marian Efe Ansah\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Anglican Primate of West Africa, Most Reverend Professor Yinkah Sarfo has appealed to Ghanaians to stop\u00a0 politicising \u00a0the Nayale Ametefeh cocaine saga. Most Reverend Professor Yinkah Sarfo said politicizing the arrest of Nayale Ametefeh makes the fight against drugs complex. Speaking at a special thanksgiving service organized by the opposition NPP to thank God [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":70078,"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":[38,17],"class_list":["post-70048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-palaver-newspaper","tag-wassa-akropong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70048","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/70078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}