The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has demanded the immediate resignation of the Minister for the Interior, Mohammed Mubarak Muntaka, citing a series of international narcotics interceptions involving consignments allegedly connected to Ghana.
The opposition party maintains that the repeated discovery of suspected cocaine shipments at foreign ports and other international destinations raises serious concerns about the effectiveness of Ghana’s anti narcotics enforcement arrangements and the capacity of security agencies to prevent illicit substances from moving through the country’s borders.
Addressing a press conference on Wednesday, November 4, the NPP’s Second Vice Chairman, Henry Nana Boakye, popularly known as Nana B, argued that the Interior Minister’s own public disclosures concerning the reluctance of foreign security agencies to exchange intelligence with their Ghanaian counterparts provided sufficient grounds to question his continued leadership of the ministry.
Mr Boakye referred to earlier comments by Mr Muntaka, in which the Interior Minister reportedly disclosed that some international security partners had become increasingly reluctant to share sensitive intelligence with Ghanaian agencies because of fears that confidential information could be compromised by individuals within the country’s security establishment.
The NPP official argued that such concerns reflected a serious breakdown in international confidence in Ghana’s security institutions and questioned why the minister had not accepted responsibility for the situation.
Commenting specifically on the cocaine interception in France, Mr Boakye expressed astonishment that Mr Muntaka remained in office despite the concerns reportedly raised by French authorities about intelligence sharing and possible insider involvement.
“For the French seizure, I am still amazed why Muntaka is still at post. In fact, the Interior Minister himself, on TV, made it public that the French authorities are saying that they don’t have confidence in their Ghanaian counterparts so they are not going to share any information with them because they are of the belief that government officials are complicit in this matter,” he stated.
He further maintained that the reported concerns expressed by the French authorities amounted to a loss of confidence in the Interior Minister, the leadership of the Narcotics Control Commission (NACOC) and the officials responsible for security at the Kotoka International Airport.
“That alone is a vote of no confidence in Muntaka. That alone is a vote of no confidence in the leadership at NACOC and that alone is a vote of no confidence on the authorities at the Accra International Airport,” he added.
One of the principal incidents underpinning the NPP’s demands is the interception of approximately 3.9 tonnes of suspected cocaine by French customs officials at the Port of Dunkirk in September 2026.
The consignment, reportedly valued at approximately €225 million, equivalent to about US$261 million, was discovered concealed in a container declared as carrying plastic waste originating from Ghana.
French authorities reportedly intercepted the shipment on September 10, with subsequent investigations raising questions about possible connections between the consignment and an international narcotics trafficking network.
The latest demand for the Interior Minister’s resignation forms part of the NPP’s broader criticism of the government’s handling of drug trafficking concerns, with the opposition insisting that the recurring international seizures require greater accountability from officials responsible for Ghana’s internal security and border protection.
However, the allegations of official complicity and compromised intelligence remain matters requiring investigation and independent verification. The reported interceptions, in themselves, do not establish wrongdoing by the Interior Minister or any particular Ghanaian security official.
