The Herald,True Statesman And The Republic Newspapers Funded By Drug Barons?

The New Free Press, after three months of painstaking investigations has relevealed that three newspapers in Ghana are funded from the proceeds of drugs and in particular, one editor, Larry Dogbey the editor of the Herald in particular has his fingerprints all over the £750,000 cocaine found in the plantain recently found in the UK.

As a matter of fact Mr Larry Dogbey is the first cousin of Charles Abodakpi ,the security supervisor of aviance limited who in turn is the nephew of Mr Dan Abodakpi, Ghana’s Ambassador to Malaysia and an ex convict who was rewarded after being jailed by the previous Kufuor government for embezzling 200,000 dollars from the Ministry of Trade and Industry.

It is also interesting that Larry Dogbey is a close friend of Frank Kofi Amoah chief executive of Monai Cargo Limited . Frank Amoah is a former Nacob informant and also worked for the BNI from 1993 to 2003 until he was made redundant .Who is helping him resurrect after all these years? Who took him to National Security Advisor Brigadier Nunnoo Mensah and who supported him with the state infrastructure to set up his freight business and move this huge amount of cocaine to the UK through his freight company and who has allowed him to escape to Togo? Mr Frank Amoah was also seen at the National Democratic Congress presidential primaries in Sunyani and records we have sighted showed that he also donated 10,000 Ghana cedis to support the Late President Mills through Larry Dogbey which was received by Mr Alex Segbefia, Deputy Chief of Staff.

We would also like to know why the True Statesman which is edited by Mr Dela Cofie and the Republic newspaper in particular are funded by one Victor Segbawu, a known drug baron and NACOB informant enjoying immunity and protection from some elements in National Security and who currently lives in a plush 6 bedroom house in West Legon. This man was arrested in South Africa in October 1995 and served a 12 year sentence for smuggling drugs in wax prints. We also challenge these editors to come out and tell Ghanaians about three bedroom houses bought for them by Victor Segbawu’s company Precision Limited at the new Regimanuel Estates in Kwabenya.

The New Free Press calls and the police and the National Media commission as well as the National Security Apparatus to arrest the owners of these newspapers and investigate their source of funding. We cannot allow proceeds from drug barons to be laundered through the setting up of dubious newspaper businesses.

We will be back with more!

Roland Amankwanor

Senior Investigations Editor

The New Free Press

Kotobabi Abavana Down

Accra