To nab crime, you need patience – Inusah Fuseini on tracing drug networks
by Miss Naa · MyNewsGh.comFormer Tamale Central MP and former Minister for Lands and Natural Resources Inusah Fuseini has defended the possibility of allowing a drug consignment to continue moving under controlled delivery to help investigators identify people connected to the shipment.
Fuseini said stopping a consignment immediately does not necessarily expose everyone involved in the operation.
“It could be that the trans-shipment process was allowed to go through to identify persons who were connected,” he said on TV3’s Keypoints.
He explained that such an approach could form part of a controlled delivery operation, where investigators allow a shipment to proceed under surveillance in order to trace the wider network behind it.
“That point can be true because this is under controlled delivery,” he said.
Fuseini said the objective should be to identify all the actors involved rather than focus only on the people physically moving the drugs.
Speaking on TV3’s The KeyPoints, he cautioned against allowing personal assumptions or political considerations to influence how such an investigation is assessed.
“I’m saying that to be able to nab crime, to deal with all actors in the process, you need patience,” he said.
He added that investigators needed to rely on intelligence and evidence rather than individual impressions about what may have happened.
“And that if you rely on your own personal idiosyncrasies to make valid judgments on what is happening, you may be wrong,” he said.
Fuseini was also asked whether the movement of the consignment could have involved people who willingly allowed it to pass because they had received some form of prior assurance.
He agreed that such a possibility could amount to an escort, even if there was no physical show of force.
“Escorting doesn’t mean using guns and this,” he said.
He explained that couriers could be confident enough to move a shipment because they believed they had assurances that it would be allowed through.
“The supposition that this could not have happened, the couriers could not have been as bold to expect this to go through unless they had prior assurance,” he said.
Fuseini said the involvement of intelligence agencies from other countries could also be important in tracing the people behind the shipment.
He said Ghanaian authorities, as well as French or Belgian intelligence agencies operating in Ghana, would want to establish who was connected to the consignment.
“Because you want to deal with that,” he said.
For Fuseini, the focus should therefore remain on identifying the entire network rather than rushing to conclusions based only on the movement or interception of one consignment.
Source: MyNewsGh.com
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