POLICE FORCE DEEPLY INVOLVED IN DRUGS

... $6m worth of cocaine missing from police exhibit room. The Government has reacted angrily to an attempt by the police service to cover up its culpability in the case of the missing cocaine from the exhibit room at the police headquarters. The Government had set up a committee headed by the CPP MP ,Hon Kojo Armah to look into the case.The Armah committee submitted a report that described in sordid details ,the incompetence and deep corruption in the police service even at the Headquarters . The Committee had been formed to look into the case of the disappearance of $6m worth of cocaine from the exhibit vault at the Police Headquarters in Accra .The committee's report revealed some very disturbing incompetence and sleaze especially in the war on drugs .There were even allegations of the police complicity and corroboration in the drug plague . In a posture characteristic of this Government ,there has a disturbing lack of decisive action or any strong show of leadership in this matter as it is with other issues.The head of the police service under whose very nose this abberation happened is still at post while none of the officers in charge of the case has had any action taken against them. This indeed is very worrying given the threats to our democracy and security staring us in the face if this country becomes a drug hub in the region.According to the UN agency leading the fight against drug trafficking and its related crimes ,Ghana has become the major transit point for cocaine and heroine smuggling between South America ,South Asia as countries of origin and Europe and America as destinations. The sordid happenings in high places in relation to the drug scandal probably shows that the criminals have succeeded in infiltrating ,co-opting and corrupting our security services and other Government officials. In a weak state like Ghana it will definitely lead to collapse of the state leading lawlessness and conflict .