MP Ernest Norgbey, who sits on Parliament’s Defence and Interior Committee, told Eyewitness News on Tuesday that some security officials are undermining the John Mahama administration by manipulating the system and leaking sensitive information to individuals linked to the former government.
Norgbey said that officers inherited from the previous administration remain in strategic positions and are allegedly using their access to frustrate the government’s efforts to tackle illicit drug trafficking. “There are people who are at the helm of affairs who are making sure that this government does not succeed,” he said.
The MP added that some officials allegedly provide information to political actors outside government, allowing them to anticipate security operations and exploit weaknesses within the system. “They are allowing the system, they are opening up the system, they are corrupting the system, and the same people will come back and come and leak information and tell people, I mean, cronies from the other side that this is what is happening,” he alleged.
Norgbey urged the government to review the deployment of personnel at the country’s entry and exit points, particularly those responsible for detecting and preventing the movement of narcotics. He warned that security infrastructure, including scanning and drug‑detection systems at ports and the airport, could be undermined if personnel operating them compromise the system.
“If you cannot as much as reshuffle people who are watching you or helping your government look bad, that’s incompetence to the highest order,” he said. He called for an internal reshuffle of personnel at strategic entry and exit points to prevent further manipulation of the system. “Those people must be reshuffled. Until then, we’ll continue to see all this,” he added.
His comments come amid heightened scrutiny of Ghana’s narcotics‑control system following major cocaine seizures linked to consignments originating from Ghana. The opposition New Patriotic Party has called for a parliamentary inquiry into the seizures, while government MPs have argued that investigations should be left to institutions mandated to handle criminal and narcotics‑related cases.
