The meeting, scheduled for Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 12:30 p.m. at the Jubilee House, is expected to review Ghana's vulnerabilities at the country's ports, airports and land borders.

The Presidency has convened an emergency high-level meeting on border security and narcotics control, days after the Minority in Parliament accused government of presiding over Ghana's descent into a major transit hub for international drug cartels.

The meeting, scheduled for Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 12:30 p.m. at the Jubilee House, is expected to review Ghana's vulnerabilities at the country's ports, airports and land borders.

A letter signed by the Secretary to the President, Dr. Callistus Mahama, invites heads of key state institutions and private terminal operators to the meeting.

"The meeting will review existing vulnerabilities, intelligence-sharing arrangements, cargo and passenger screening systems, inter-agency coordination, and the deployment of technology to detect and disrupt narcotics trafficking," the invitation letter dated Monday, September 14, 2026 stated.

Each institution is to be represented by its head and not more than one relevant technical officer, with participants directed to come prepared to provide a brief assessment of existing security gaps and propose practical measures to improve intelligence sharing, surveillance, screening and joint enforcement operations.

The invitation notes that "given the urgency and national-security implications, your personal attendance is required."

Among those invited are the Ministers of Finance and Foreign Affairs, the Director-General of the Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority, the Commissioner of the Customs Division of the Ghana Revenue Authority, the Sector Commander of Customs at Tema, the CEOs of Ghana Shippers Authority, Ghana Link Network Services, Meridian Port Services and Ghana Airports Company, the Chief of Naval Staff, the Directors-General of the National Intelligence Bureau and the Narcotics Control Commission, and the Ghana Police Service CID/Interpol, as well as operators of terminal scanners.

The move comes on the back of intense pressure from the Minority caucus, which on Sunday, September 13, 2026, demanded a full-scale parliamentary inquiry into a string of seizures it says are collectively worth over $1 billion.

The caucus, led by Ranking Member on Defence and Interior, John Ntim Fordjour, cited the 3.3 tonnes of cocaine seized at Pedu Junction in March 2025, 866 parcels intercepted at Tema Harbour in August 2026, 320kg of methamphetamine seized in Australia linked to Ghana in June, and the most recently 3.9 tonnes of cocaine seized by French customs at Dunkirk on September 10 in a container that departed Ghana.

The Minority also flagged the unresolved MV Sankofa case and questioned why only couriers and freight agents have been prosecuted while financiers remain at large.

Source: 3news