Dennis Miracles Aboagye, a Senior aide to NPP flagbearer Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, has told Kwakye Ofosu and the John Mahama government to reject Ghana’s cocaine coast label through concrete action and not their words.
In a Facebook post, Miracles Aboagye boldly told Felix Kwakye Ofosu that simply rejecting the description would not address the concerns arising from recent major drug trafficking cases linked to Ghana.
Accordong to Miracles Aboagye, Ghana’s cocaine coast description was not based on cocaine seizures made by Ghanaian authorities but due to the scale and frequency of consignments reportedly passing through Ghana before being intercepted.
Miracles Aboagye in his Facebook post wrote, “You know very well your mouth alone isn’t enough to reject a named earned by action.
And you also know, the name cocaine coast, wasn’t earned based on any busts in Ghana.
Ghana is now being named cocaine coast as a result of unprecedented, historic, large quantities of cocaine that passed through our ports right before the eyes of this government and security operatives and then eventually arrested on foreign lands.
Our government allowed the cocaine to enter the country and leave the country without any arrest. Not once, not twice but about 7 different ones within 20months.
We can reject the name by action and not speaking.
You get??”.
Miracles Aboagye comments followed Kwakye Ofosu’s rejection of the “Cocaine Coast” label.
The Government Spokeperson claimed that drug seizures and arrests by Ghanaian security agencies demonstrate that the country’s anti-narcotics institutions are working.
Felix Kwakye Ofosu, however, acknowledged concerns over consignments that evade Ghanaian authorities and are intercepted abroad.
In related news, Dutch authorities have traced a record 4,500-kilogramme cocaine shipment seized at the Port of Amsterdam to a timber consignment from Ghana.
The drugs were intercepted on June 13, 2025, after Dutch customs officers selected a container for further inspection following a risk assessment.
Using scanning equipment and sniffer dogs, customs officials discovered the cocaine professionally concealed among timber inside the container.
Reports suggest that although the shipment was initially described as having arrived from West Africa, subsequent investigations by the Dutch Public Prosecution Service established that the timber had been shipped from Ghana.
The 4,500-kilogramme haul has been described as the largest cocaine seizure ever recorded at the Port of Amsterdam.
The information gathered suggests Dutch prosecutors valued the seized cocaine at more than €112 million at wholesale prices, while its estimated street value was around €450 million.
The NL Times reported that the cocaine was subsequently destroyed.
Also, investigations into the shipment also revealed that the Ghanaian timber consignment was addressed to a company in Germany, which Dutch authorities suspected was being used as a front for international drug trafficking.
According to prosecutors, the company was registered in the name of a man who carried out no actual business activity and had allegedly been paid to have the company registered in his name.
Investigators examining the man’s phone reportedly uncovered information that helped them identify a 69-year-old resident of Amsterdam who was suspected of involvement in the shipment.
The suspect was arrested in October 2025, while other individuals were also brought under investigation.
The arrest was reported by the NL Times in November 2025 as Dutch authorities continued their investigations into the wider network behind the cocaine shipment.
The Amsterdam case was followed by another major cocaine seizure in November 2025.
Dutch prosecutors said more than 250 kilogrammes of cocaine were discovered in a food container shipped from Ghana and addressed to a company in the United Kingdom.
At the time, investigators said there was no indication that the intended UK recipient was involved in the shipment.
The second seizure was also reported by Dutch broadcaster AT5.
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