The Saga of Cocaine Trade At Kotoka Airport
FBI Bust Airport Security Capo
… Handcuffed and airlifted from Accra to Washington Over drugs
Story By Dominic Jale
America’s veritable Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI), chest-deep with fighting the global war against illicit drugs only three months ago, flew the miles to Ghana to track down and eventually nab one Edmond Darkwah, a shift commander of AVSEC SECURITY who is also employed by the Ghana Airport Company. Veritable sources within the corridors of the Airport Company say on this occasion the world-acclaimed FBI agents flew down with hardcore evidence that could convince even the devil, leaving the powers-that-be in the country no option than to help arrest the lad in handcuffs and chains.
THE GHANAIAN SUN’s pieces of information pieced together indicates that, having had Darkwa in chains and handcuffs the Americans rushed him through BOARDING PASS GATE 4 of the Kotoka International Airport with the three FBI AGENTS around 10 pm of that fatal night, and was straightaway bundled into a Delta Airline flight, from where he was flown to Washington DC for further investigations. A top National Security operative who dodged every conceivable question thrown at him wondered just how THE GHANAIAN SUN got wind of the story and instead insisted repeatedly that, at the appropriate time Ghanaians would be informed of the keener details of the matter.
However a management member of GAC confirmed the arrest of shift commander Darkwah, but refused to speak to the details of the issue. According to our sources at GCA, before the FBI agents flew down to pick Darkwa, a middle-aged woman who posed as a cripple had earlier been busted at JFK Airport with drugs. THE GHANAIAN SUN learnt that after the arrest of the woman (whose name is not readily available to the paper), Shift Commander Darkwah’s name popped up as the syndicate behind her nefarious activities.
The story so hot on the coal pot has it that, the middle-aged woman who was busted at the JFK Airport before she boarded the Delta Airline in Accra for the US had earlier been sighted in the wheel chair with Darkwah, allegedly supporting her as a physically challenged person.
In that space of time, Darkwah is said to have pushed the wheel chair together with its occupant into the plane after going through travel formalities. As the two embarked on the trick, all who saw the woman in question thought she was a cripple until the flight landed at the JFK Airport. Over there, informed sources on the flight who were privy to the earlier trick found out to their chagrin that, she abandoned the wheel chair the moment the flight touched the tarmac at JFK.
Instead according to THE GHANAIAN SUN’s security sources the woman suddenly became amused as soon as the Delta Airline touched base, giggling like a girl in her sweet teens and in the process snubbing her wheel chair perhaps in cognizance of the fact that, she had played a fast one on everyone else in reaching a very lucrative goal.
This attitude naturally raised lots of questions for it alerted the air crew of the airline to report her to the security agents around, who wasted no time in picking Darkwah’s guest. Lo and behold when she was searched, a quantity of drugs was found in her traveling bags.
THE GHANAIAN SUN has gathered that while she was being held, Darkwah’s name popped up like a cock that could not be submerged even by the heaviest of lead. Around that same time, intelligent reports put together confirmed that Darkwah was on phone calling on a number of occasions to find out if all was through. In the process the USA security agents managed to track him down through the magic of intelligence work, following which they alerted their Ghanaian counterparts about the happening and the need to arrest Darkwa and fly him over to the USA for investigations. This and other developments preceding it seem to have informed the USA Ambassador to Ghana who has on occasions raised deep concerns about Ghana losing the fight against illicit drugs.
Only last week, a quantity of cannabis said to be the highest ever to have been arrested in the United Kingdom was traced until its roots were discovered to be from Ghana. Even though Darkwah was picked, other members of the syndicate operating within the security set-up at the Kotoka International Airport seem to have intensified their operations, leading to arrest of the huge cannabis hurl in London last week, a source which further confirmed the event leading to the arrest of Darkwah said while pleading anonymity.
An elderly man who witnessed the dramatic event and how Darkwah was airlifted with chained legs and handcuffed hands, recalled the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade of yester-year and how blacks were shipped to Europe and America, except that this time around “ the circumstances for the chaining, handcuffing and airlifting is different”, he told THE GHANAIAN SUN.-
