The issue of the disappearance of some 27 pallets of a substance suspected to be cocaine and weighing 19.5 kilograms that was uncovered in a refrigerated container at the port of Tema on the 13th of November continues to get murky by the day.
Investigations conducted by Maritime and Transport Digest indicate that Colonel Agudogo, the head of National Security at the port of Tema who earlier told this paper that he had no knowledge of the said incident in which the suspected drug was discovered during the scanning of the said container which contained chicken-upper-back from Chile, was indeed present from the stage when the drug was intercepted through to when the consignment was taken and delivered to the importer.
Contrary to earlier reports that the consignment was offloaded at NAYAK warehouse near the fishing harbour in Tema, this paper can state without fear of equivocation that the managers of the warehouse upon realizing that drugs were found in the consignment immediately terminated their contract with the importer and disallowed the consignment to be offloaded into the cold room that had been rented to them.
Even though the counting and weighing of the pallets of the suspected drug was done in the NAYAK warehouse which rather belongs to one madam Nana Yaa Konadu and not the importer as reported earlier, the consignment was later taken to a different cold store which name will be provided later.
Our investigations showed that when the consignment arrived at NAYAK warehouse, it was accompanied by the importer, a certain lawyer, a man who claimed to be a Member of Parliament and the head of National Security at the Tema Port, Colonel Agudogo.
After counting and weighing the drugs according to our investigations, Colonel Agudogo warned all the people present at the time not to disclose what had happened to anyone and went further to threaten managers of the cold store that they will be in big trouble if they ever opened up on the matter to the public.
Colonel Agudogo also persuaded the warehouse management to tell their staff who were curious and anxious to know what had happened that it was arms that was rather discovered in the container and not cocaine.
The key question that remains unanswered is the whereabouts of the suspected drug as it remains unclear what the national security and the Narcotics Control Board together with the importer have done with it.
Why the consignment was not seized when the drug was found in it and why the importer has not been arrested, coupled with the fact that no investigation of any sort has been launched into the matter remains a mystery.
The mere fact that the head of the national security at the port lied to this paper that he did not know anything about the matter makes him a culpable party as we have rock solid evidence that he was the one calling the shots on the day the consignment moved from the scan to the warehouse. We promise our cherished readers to release the name of the importer and the new cold store in which the consignment was offloaded in our subsequent issues.
