Parliament must investigate how 3.9 tonnes of cocaine left Ghana undetected – Samuel Jinapor

Former Lands and Natural Resources Minister and Ranking Member of Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee, Samuel Abdulai Jinapor, has called for a comprehensive bipartisan parliamentary inquiry into major narcotics seizures linked to Ghana. Specifically, Jinapor is questioning how nearly 3.9 tonnes of cocaine, recently seized by French authorities, managed to leave the country undetected.

This shipment reportedly arrived in Dunkirk, France, on September 10, 2026, on a container that was shipped from Ghana. During a parliamentary session on September 29, 2026, Jinapor proposed an emergency inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the shipment during a special sitting. However, the Speaker, Alban Bagbin, ruled out the Minority's motion to form an ad hoc committee, citing that the issue overlapped with matters currently under judicial and investigative scrutiny.

Jinapor insists that the proposed inquiry is not about determining guilt or innocence but about examining broader institutional and security questions. He emphasized the need to understand how the containers were processed, scanned, and cleared, and whether Ghana's port surveillance and narcotics-control systems are sufficient to prevent such large-scale narcotics smuggling.

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