The Member of Parliament for Assin South, Reverend John Ntim Fordjour is reportedly being arrested
Officers from the National Intelligence Bureau (NIB) are reportedly at the residence of the Ranking Member of Parliament on Defence and Interior Committee and Member of Parliament for Assin South, Reverend John Ntim Fordjour, to effect his arrest.
The General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Justin Frimpong Kodua, announced this in a post shared on social media on Wednesday, April 9, 2025.
“NIB currently at Ntim Fordjour’s house to arrest him,” the NPP chief scribe wrote in his post.
A video of Kodua, supposedly at the home of the Assin South legislator, showed officials of the NIB at the entrance of his (Ntim Fordjour) home.
Other videos sighted by GhanaWeb online also show the officials of the NIB in the compound of Ntim Fordjour.
It is unknown if the NIB arrest of the lawmaker is related to his recent cocaine smuggling and money laundering allegations.
The MP for Assin South and the Minority’s Ranking Member on the Defence and Interior Committee claimed at a press conference on April 1, 2025, that two flights, an air ambulance and a private jet might have been involved in drug trafficking or money laundering.
He alleged that one of the aircrafts, Air MED flight L823 AM, landed in Ghana on March 20 and stayed for five days without any record of transporting a patient.
These allegations led President John Dramani Mahama to order security agencies to “immediately and fully collaborate with the honourable Member of Parliament so he provides all necessary information to investigate the allegations and take all action necessary to expose any drug dealing”.
President Mahama also directed all security agencies to work with Rev Ntim Fordjour to investigate the drug trafficking and money laundering claims involving the two suspicious flights at Kotoka International Airport (KIA).
He emphasised that Ghana has a zero-tolerance policy for drug trafficking and will not allow the country to be used as a transit or final destination for illicit drugs.
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