Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Free Zones Board, Kwadwo Twum-Boafo has stated insistently that the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) is more committed to fighting the canker of drug trafficking in the country.

His comment follows the arrest of a Ghanaian-Austrian passport holder at the Heathrow International Airport with 12.5 kilogrammes of cocaine.

Ms. Nayele Ametefeh, alias Ruby Adu Gyamfi, who has already pleaded guilty to the crime, was assisted by an official of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to use the VIP lounge of the Kotoka International Airport to smuggle the drugs to London.

The Minority led by Osei Kyei Mensah-Bonsu subsequently organized a press conference where they accused the Mahama-led administration of supervising a booming drug trade.

But in a sharp rebuttal on Radio Gold’s current affairs programme, Alhaji and Alhaji on Saturday, Kwadwo Twum-Boafo said the NPP does not have the moral right to point accusing fingers at the NDC.

According to Mr. Twum-Boafo, unlike the NPP that encourage the drug trade, the NDC has consistently proven that drug peddling will not be countenanced under the Mahama government.

This he said has been proven with regard to the arrest of the perpetrators of the Nayele Ametefeh cocaine saga.

He alleged that under the watch of the NPP, 77 parcels of cocaine was shipped into the country by Christian Sheriff Asem Darkey, alias the Limping Man, adding that the substance vanished into thin air without any trace.

Mr. Twum-Boafo further claimed that the flagbearer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Addo Dankwah Akufo-Addo, at the time he was the Foreign Affairs Minister, had a convicted drug baron as Chief of Staff.

“All of a sudden they have started saying that ‘let’s have a bipartisan debate about this drug issue’. Somehow or the other, they have forgotten that they have a past. They have forgotten that the flagbearer of the NPP at the time he was the Foreign Minister, had a convicted drug baron (Yaw Amfo Kwakye) as his chief of staff; the man who took wee in yams to the United Kingdom– was arrested, spent five years in jail in the UK, came back and Nana Addo made him the first Editor of the Statesman and subsequently his chief of staff at the Foreign Affairs Ministry,” he purported.

He added by saying that “we were in this country when a senior member of the NPP, Appiah Menkah’s son, was arrested with cocaine in tins of palm oil. Somehow or the other, mysteriously the case vanished.”

“We were in this country when a KLM flight took off from Accra and they found out that all the Economy seats had parcels of cocaine under the seats so the aircraft was diverted to Spain,” he alleged.

Twum-Boafo believes that the NDC has destroyed the drug trafficking market and should be commended rather than chastised.