Veep calls for increased intelligence on drugs

Posted: Published on May 1st, 2013

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General News of Wednesday, 1 May 2013

Source: Daily Graphic

The Vice-President, Mr Kwesi Bekoe Amissah-Arthur, has called for the intensification of intelligence gathering to block the sources of finance that sustain drug trafficking on the African continent.

He said traffickers had become sophisticated and sometimes teamed up with some financial institutions to launder the proceeds from their illegal activities, hence the need for the alertness.

Mr Amissah-Arthur made the call when a delegation of the West Africa Commission on Drugs (WACD), led by Commissioner Justice Bankole Thompson, paid a courtesy call on him at the Flagstaff House in Accra Tuesday.

The WACD aims to mobilise public awareness and political commitment, develop evidence-based policy recommendations on how to address drug trafficking and dependency and promote local and regional capacities to deal with drug trafficking and dependency issues.

The Vice-President expressed grave concerns over the way drug traffickers had infiltrated educational institutions and supported the call for intensive education, particularly among the youth and organised groupings.

There is the need for us to identify and confront this problem, particularly among our schoolchildren in whom the drug barons are investing now, he said.

A former President of Nigeria, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, who is the Chairman of WACD, said the commission had begun an outreach to visit several countries in West Africa and engage with government officials, civil society and actors from the Judiciary, the law enforcement and security agencies, as well as local media.

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