Mosquito dares NPP to prove NDC is a 'coke' party

General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Johnson Asiedu Nketia has dared the main opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) to produce any evidence to prove that the governing party or any of its members deals in drugs.

Asiedu Nketia’s challenge to the NPP comes on the heels of the recent arrest of a Ghanaian lady at London’s Heathrow Airport for trafficking 12.5 kilos of cocaine from Accra to the UK.

The two main parties have politicised the issue and are trading accusations against each other, of either dealing in narcotics or condoning drug trafficking.

Ghana’s Parliament, for instance, was thrown into a state of uproar on Tuesday when Bimbilla MP and Deputy Minority Leader Dominic Nitiwul carried 12.5 kilos of rice to the Chamber to taunt the Majority with the cocaine saga.

MPs on each side of the house threw tantrums and called themselves disparaging names.

Also former Campaign Coordinator of the NPP, Boakye Agyarko said on Accra-based Oman FM Tuesday that: “I have listened to people who once used to be very vociferous in accusing the NPP of drugs now arguing that we should see the issue as a national problem and not a political one…but I can assure them that we [NPP] will certainly politicise it and no one should see it as a political equalisation…”

He was speaking in reference to the arrest of NPP MP, Eric Amoateng, 10 years ago, for trafficking drugs to the US – an event which Asiedu Nketia told ASEMPA FM on Wednesday was clear evidence that the NPP deals in drugs.

General Mosquito, as Asiedu Nketia is popularly known, said there is no evidence linking any NDC member to the recent cocaine bust involving Nayele Ametefeh, and therefore wonders why the NPP was trying to hang the issue on the Government’s head.