The Minister of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration has advised Ghanaians to disregard allegations being circulated on social media by some \u2018faceless persons\u2019 purporting to be army officials regarding the Nayele cocaine saga.<\/p>\n
In a post on her Facebook page on Sunday, Ms\u00a0Tetteh said some \u201cnameless and faceless persons within the military\u2026 writing under pseudonyms on social media platforms\u201d are claiming they have evidence to prove some government officials indeed assisted Nayele Ametefe to transport 12.5 kilograms of cocaine to the United Kingdom (UK).<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”3ONH4ScXNOOMCeNLx9IO9Lk49Z1uvwo1″]The evidence, according to these \u2018faceless persons\u2019 were gleaned from “checks having been made with the Military.”<\/p>\n
According to the Minister however, such posts are \u201cunverifiable allegations\u201d only aimed at tarnishing the image of the Ghana Armed Forces (GAF) and the government.<\/p>\n
She said the baseless claims are being circulated on social media to \u201ccast doubt on the information I made available to the public when being interviewed by Suhuyini on Radio Gold.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Minister stressed that the information she provided to the general public was based on the report she received from Ghana\u2019s High Commissioner in London.<\/p>\n
Hannah Tetteh said contrary to the rumours that some government officials from the Ghana Embassy were at the airport to receive Ms Ametefe, \u00a0\u201cI [Hannah Tetteh] was informed that staff of the Embassy working with the office of the Defence attach\u00e9 in our Embassy had been at the airport to receive a delegation from the Ministry of Defence.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI have no reason to doubt the veracity of the report I received from the High Commissioner,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n
She served notice to the general public that the Ghana Armed Forces is a very professional organization \u201cwhich is also very professional in the way it conducts its public affairs and therefore any vague, unsubstantiated allegations purporting to come from them should be disregarded.\u201d<\/p>\n
She continued saying, \u201cI am glad that at the IMANI anniversary lectures and also on his Twitter feed, the British High Commissioner to Ghana confirmed the Lady was not in possession of a Diplomatic passport on arrival in the UK, and I can confirm that she does not possess any Diplomatic passport under any of the pseudonyms that have been associated with her in various media reports.\u201d<\/p>\n
Nayele Ametefe alias Ruby Appiah was arrested last year<\/strong><\/span><\/a> at the Heathrow Airport in the UK for trafficking 12.5 kilograms of cocaine.<\/p>\n Subsequently, it was revealed that she used the VVIP section at the Kotoka International Airport to travel; a revelation which led to the arrest of about 12 persons.<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n There were also media reports that some government officials were assisting Ms Ametefe but the Minister in a radio interview discounted those reports.<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n Ms Ametefe has pleaded guilty in a UK court<\/strong> <\/span><\/a>and \u00a0is expected to be sentenced on Monday, January 5, 2015.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n By: Efua Idan Osam\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana
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