Inusah Fuseini calls for investigation into officials compromised in drug case
by Miss Naa · MyNewsGh.comFormer Tamale Central MP Inusah Fuseini has said the investigation into Ghana-linked drug shipments must establish the specific individuals who may have allowed the consignments to pass rather than simply punishing the heads of institutions.
Fuseini agreed with the suggestion that some people may have been complicit if a drug consignment was able to move through Ghana after receiving prior assurance.
“Some people were complicit,” he said on TV3’s Keypoints.
But he cautioned against assuming that the head of an institution should automatically be removed simply because something happened within that institution.
“There cannot be vicarious responsibility for the commission of a crime,” Fuseini said.
He argued that investigators needed to establish who actually became compromised and how that person contributed to the movement of the drugs.
“You don’t go and sack the head when the person who committed the crime and, I mean, allowed himself to be compromised, he’s sitting there,” he said.
Fuseini said removing only the head of an institution without identifying the person directly involved would fail to address the actual problem.
“And then that thing will happen again,” he said.
He used the distinction between a symptom and the underlying disease to explain his position.
“Because you have just treated the symptom. There was a symptom, but not a disease,” he said.
Speaking on TV3’s The KeyPoints, Fuseini acknowledged that heads of institutions carry ultimate responsibility for what happens under their watch and said they could choose to resign if they felt embarrassed by the situation.
“They are the heads. They have ultimate responsibility,” he said.
“They could resign. They could resign.”
But he maintained that resignation alone should not replace the investigation needed to identify the individuals who may have facilitated the movement of the drugs.
His comments came amid discussion about what action government should take after major narcotics consignments linked to Ghana were intercepted.
Fuseini said the authorities needed to determine whether people within the system willingly allowed the drugs to pass and, if so, identify those individuals.
He also argued that understanding the operation of the drug networks was necessary before government could effectively dismantle them.
“We need to understand the operation of the drug cartel using Ghana as a transit to be able to deal with it effectively,” he said.
Source: MyNewsGh.com
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