{"id":10487,"date":"2025-04-09T10:33:15","date_gmt":"2025-04-09T10:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=10487"},"modified":"2025-04-09T10:33:15","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T10:33:15","slug":"govt-calls-for-public-interrogation-of-mp-over-drug-trafficking-claims-speaker-yet-to-approve-nib-request","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=10487","title":{"rendered":"Gov\u2019t calls for public interrogation of MP over drug trafficking claims \u2013 Speaker yet to approve NIB request"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This follows explosive claims made by the MP that two aircraft recently landed in Ghana carrying illegal drugs and large sums of cash.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>The NIB wrote to the Speaker to release Ntim Fordjour. The Speaker is yet to respond to the NIB, as far as I am aware. Anytime the Speaker responds to it, he will be available for questions,<\/em>\u201d Kwakye Ofosu stated during an interview on Fish FM\\ TV<\/p>\n<div class=\"inline-single-ad ad_single_index alignfull\">\n<div class=\"ad-wrap ad-script-wrap\">\n<div class=\"ad-script non-adsense edge-padding\">According to the Minister, the MP made the allegations on April 1, and by the next day, the relevant security and aviation agencies had submitted detailed reports on the matter.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201c<em>He (Ntim Fordjour) made this allegation on the 1st of April, I believe. By the 2nd of April, relevant agencies had submitted reports on exactly what happened at the airport between the times that the aircraft arrived and when they left,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0he said.<\/p>\n<p>Kwakye Ofosu stressed that the investigations found no evidence of criminal activity, and the findings were backed by official documentation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>The findings were supported by documentary evidence, which provided conclusive proof that no illegal activity took place on the two flights<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"inline-single-ad ad_single_index alignfull\">\n<div class=\"ad-wrap ad-script-wrap\">\n<div class=\"ad-script non-adsense edge-padding\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1738328175066-0\">He also made a strong case for transparency, suggesting that the MP\u2019s interrogation should be made public for the sake of accountability and public confidence. The\u00a0Speaker of Parliament has not yet issued a formal response to the NIB\u2019s request to release the MP for questioning.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This follows explosive claims made by the MP that two aircraft recently landed in Ghana carrying illegal drugs and large sums of cash. \u201cThe NIB wrote to the Speaker to release Ntim Fordjour. The Speaker is yet to respond to the NIB, as far as I am aware. Anytime the Speaker responds to it, he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10488,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,18],"tags":[3151,3336,3337],"class_list":["post-10487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-news","category-politics","tag-felix-kwakye-ofosu","tag-national-intelligence-bureau-nib","tag-rev-john-ntim-fordjour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10487"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10489,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10487\/revisions\/10489"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}