By Edward Dankwah, GNA
Accra, June 24, GNA – Brigadier General Maxwell Obuba Mantey, Director-General, Narcotics Control Commission, has disclosed that the lead shipper of the Ghana-Australia methamphetamine trafficking has been arrested.
The lead shipper, identified as a Ghanaian woman was arrested through a joint exercise by NACOC in collaboration with the Bureau of National Investigations and other security agencies. 
Brigadier General Mantey, addressing journalists during the exercise, said the officers conducted a three-month operation over several nights to apprehend the suspect.
“My officers slept out of their homes for three months and successfully picked the person who led that enterprise, who is a female Ghanaian,” he revealed.
He warned that more arrests would follow and assured the public that NACOC would pursue all persons connected to illicit drug operations to prevent Ghana from becoming a narco-state.
Brigadier General Mantey said following the World Drug Day celebrations, NACOC would intensify operations against drug peddlers across the country.
“This is just the grace period. If you know you are involved in it, I’m only advising you because we will come after you,” he cautioned.
Meanwhile, the Director-General also disclosed that students recently arrested at Central University in connection with drug-related activities had been arraigned before court and remanded.
He stressed that NACOC would continue to operate nationwide and warned that no location would be shielded from anti-drug operations if intelligence pointed to criminal activities.
“We cannot allow just a few individuals to destroy the future of this country,” he said.
He reiterated that NACOC’s role was to arrest and prosecute offenders, while the courts would determine their fate.
GNA
Edited by Linda Asante Agyei