DRUG TRAFFICKING REPEATEDLY BREACHES SECURITY AT GHANA’S INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT
March 1st, 2013
GHANA'S Kotoka International Airport (KIA) has been making the news for all the wrong reasons, from accounts of a brawl breaking out between different security services at the airport; to the interception of a shipment of Ghanaian plantain stuffed with cocaine reported by UK officials.During a radio interview in June 2012, Akrasi Sarpong, executive secretary of Ghana’s Narcotics Control Board (NACOB), posited with unusual candidness that drug dealers could take advantage of several loopholes in security at Kotoka, which serves the capital Accra. “There are ...
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