The National Security Council Secretariat (NSCS), has denied the arrests of four British men, one German and two Ghanaians in a United Kingdom (UK) international law operation resulting in the seizure of a ton of narcotic drugs valued at £80 million in an Accra villa.
According to a statement copied Peacefmonline.com, a publication dated June 3, 2016, and posted on Ghanaweb, as well as other media platforms about the arrests, were false.
The statement signed by Col E.W.K Nibo, said that the secretariat, had established that the same story was published by peacefmonline.com on December 17, 2011.
He revealed that, “investigations have uncovered no new arrests as reported by Ghanaweb on June 3, 2016, supporting strongly that Ghanaweb merely recycled an old story.”
Read below the full statement:
The attention of the national Security Council Secretariat (NSCS) has been drawn to a publication on Ghanaweb dated June 3, 2016, with the above headline in which the media platform reported the arrest of four British men, one German and two Ghanaians in “UK international law operation resulting in the seizure of a ton of drug in a raid on a villa in the suburbs of Accra.” The story was sourced from “liberianobserver.com” but Ghanaweb attributed it to a “Ghana Daily Mail” newspaper.
According to the publication, the interception of the cocaine worth Eighty Million Pounds (80 million) that was destined for the” Streets of UK” was imported into Ghana and the suspects were arrested when they attempted to export the drug to the UK.
It has been established that this same story was published by peacefmonline on December 17, 2011.
Investigations have uncovered no new arrests as reported by Ghanaweb on June 3, 2016 supporting strongly that Ghanaweb merely recycled an old story.
It is noteworthy that the June 3, version provides no names of the suspects and date of arrest.
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