The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Executive Director of the Crime Check Foundation, Ibrahim Oppong Kwarteng, has provided further details about Musah Attah, alias “Kromo”, one of the suspects arrested in connection with the €225 million cocaine bust in France.
According to him, it has been established that Musah worked with the security detail at Jubilee House, where he provided security for both the President and the Vice President.
Speaking on his Crime Check programme, Ibrahim Oppong Kwarteng alleged that Musah resigned from his position at Jubilee House barely three months before his arrest.
He said Musah had repeatedly complained about his GH¢6,000 monthly salary, describing it as inadequate, and had called for an increase. According to him, Musah was assured that his salary would be reviewed when the economy improved, but he eventually resigned from his position.
“It has been established that Musah Attah worked at the Presidency, and there have been several instances where the President and the Vice President were travelling and he was part of the security detail,” he said.
“Information gathered has it that, at the time he was working at the Presidency, his salary was GH¢6,000, and he protested several times that the money was woefully inadequate. He was assured that when the economy gets better, he would get an increase.
“But the bottom line is: How did some of these people get to such places to work? … So, he left his job at the Jubilee House because of the money,” he added.
Mussah’s controversy arose after the New Tafo Member of Parliament, Vincent Ekow Assafuah, alleged that he was part of the security team of President John Dramani Mahama and the Vice President.
However, the Narcotics Control Commission (NACOC) has dismissed claims that any of the suspects arrested in connection with the €225 million cocaine bust in France was a member of the presidential security detail.
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Responding to the claim, Deputy Director-General of NACOC, Alexander Twum-Barimah, said background checks conducted on all the suspects in custody had not identified any of them as a presidential escort.
Speaking on TV3’s Hot Issues on Sunday, September 20, he said: “From the background that we have done, I don’t have any presidential bodyguard. President John Dramani Mahama’s bodyguard? Then he has to come clear and explain to us his job description and everything.”
“And like I said to you earlier, we have checked all the people that we have in custody, their backgrounds are known to us, and we don’t have any of them who is a presidential escort,” he stressed.
About the initial four suspects arrested
Four Ghanaians linked to the alleged exportation of nearly four tonnes of cocaine from Ghana to France have been formally charged, with details emerging about their arrests and statements to investigators.
The accused are Desmond Koranteng Curiel, also known as Paul Kweku Yeboah or “Biggs”; Musah Attah, alias “Kromo”; Kweku Otchere; and Jessica Hartog.
They were arraigned before the High Court in Accra on Wednesday, September 16, 2026, and remanded to reappear on October 13, 2026.
They are facing charges of conspiracy to export narcotic drugs without a licence and the exportation of narcotic drugs.
According to details of the case reported by GHOne TV journalist Awisi Dede, the Narcotics Control Commission (NACOC) arrested Curiel and Hartog at Ashaley Botwe on Saturday, September 12, 2026.
Curiel is described in court reports as a businessman or business broker, while Hartog, his fiancée, works as a beautician.
Kweku Otchere, the third accused, was also arrested at his residence in East Legon on the same day.
Awisi Dede reported that a subsequent search allegedly led investigators to three firearms, ammunition, four luxury vehicles, passports, and various sums of money.
Musah Attah was arrested two days later, on Monday, September 14, 2026, at the NACOC headquarters.
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