The Minority in Parliament is demanding an independent parliamentary inquiry into major narcotics seizures linked to Ghana, warning of growing threats to the country’s security and international reputation.

In a press statement issued September 13, 2026, the Minority Caucus said Ghana has "repeatedly featured" in major trafficking cases at home and abroad since early 2025. Locally, the National Intelligence Bureau intercepted over 3.3 tonnes of cocaine hidden under sand in a tipper truck at Pedu Junction, Cape Coast, on March 4, 2025, an estimated $350 million shipment. A second consignment of roughly 120 cocaine slabs, worth about $150 million, was seized separately along the Takoradi–Cape Coast highway. In August 2026, Tema police recovered 866 parcels of suspected cocaine hidden in sacks of gari at the Tema Harbour enclave, valued at $6.9 million.

The Caucus also flagged two unresolved incidents: an aircraft allegedly carrying narcotics and undeclared US currency that landed at Kotoka International Airport from Gran Canaria in March 2025, and the MV Sankofa, a vessel released by the Ghana Maritime Authority in July 2025 after paying a fraction of a near GH¢12 million fine, without full cargo inspection — only to be arrested days later in Senegal carrying narcotics.

Internationally, Australian customs seized 320kg of methamphetamine worth $261 million concealed in charcoal traced to Ghana on June 18, 2026. On September 10, 2026, French customs at Dunkirk seized nearly 3.9 tonnes of cocaine worth over $260 million in a container of plastic waste that had left Ghanaian shores, Reuters reported.

The statement, signed by Hon. Rev. John Ntim Fordjour, Ranking Member on the Committee on Defence and Interior, argued that prosecutions so far have caught only low-level operators: in the Pedu Junction case, "it is only the driver, a housemaid, and a small handful of peripheral suspects who have been arraigned," while "the actual financiers and high-profile dealers... remain unidentified and unpunished." The Caucus said this pattern "raises serious questions about the seriousness, independence, and reach of investigations under this Government," and warned that "Ghana's international reputation... cannot be held hostage to official silence or political convenience."

The Minority is calling for the Ministries of Interior and Transport, NACOC, the Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority, the Ghana Immigration Service, and the Bureau of National Investigations to be summoned to account for investigation outcomes, the MV Sankofa release, and port security measures. The Caucus noted that international agencies estimate only about one in ten trafficked narcotics shipments is ever intercepted, raising questions about the scale of undetected trafficking through Ghana's ports, airports, and waters. The demand comes amid heightened international scrutiny of West African transit routes for cocaine and methamphetamine bound for Europe, Australia, and beyond.