1 week Ago By Ghana News
Executive Director of ASEPA, Mensah Thompson Executive Director of the Alliance for Social Equity and Public Accountability (ASEPA), Mensah Thompson, has castigated Assin South lawmaker and Minority’s Ranking Member on the Defence and Interior Committee in Parliament, John Ntim Fordjour, over his alleged exposé involving two flights that arrived in Ghana under suspicious circumstances. Rev. Ntim Fordjour alleged that the aircraft, AirMed flight N823AM and Cavok Air’s Antonov An-12B, a cargo plane, which arrived at Kotoka International Airport in March this year, may have been used to smuggle cocaine.
In response to these allegations, some armed personnel clad in NIB uniforms and wearing masks besieged Ntim Fordjour’s residence in an attempt to arrest him. However, they failed to arrest the Member of Parliament as his party, the New Patriotic Party’s leadership and Minority Caucus, led by Alexander Afenyo-Markin, swarmed into the residence to show solidarity with their leading member. Reacting to the incident, Mensah Thompson found Ntim Fordjour’s attitude and the posture of the Minority very unacceptable.
He questioned the logic behind Ntim Fordjour making his allegations in public, while he is a Ranking Member of Parliament’s Defence and Interior Committee who, according to Mensah Thompson, could have summoned the relevant security stakeholders before Parliament to explain the mission of the aircraft in Ghana. “If truly it is not unnecessary allegations and cover-up and trying to change public discourse in this matter or public narrative, and truly, truly, they are interested in getting closure on this matter..
.Ntim Fordjour could have, through the committee,..
.summoned the National Security Minister, could have summoned the Minister for Defence, could have summoned the MD of Ghana Airport Company to come and tell them (Parliament) what those flights came to do in Ghana,” he said. He blasted the lawmaker and the opposition New Patriotic Party, stressing that what has become widely known as the AirMed cocaine scandal is merely a “deliberate ploy” by the Minority “to take the nation’s attention from their crimes while in government that are now coming up.
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