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New Patriotic Party (NPP), the leading opposition party in Ghana, has accused President John Dramani Mahama of  involvement in a cocaine deal that has embarrassed the country.

On November 9, Nayele Ametefe, a suspected drug trafficker, was arrested at Heathrow international airport, London, after arriving from Kotoka international airport, Accra, Ghana with a sizeable amount of cocaine.

NPP had wondered how a suspected drug trafficker evaded customs and security officials at the country’s international airport.

The party also wondered why Ametefe was allowed access to the presidential wing of the airport.

According to BBC, Dominic Nitiwul, a senior member of the opposition party, appeared in parliament with three bags of rice, weighing around 13kg, demanding that parliament probe the role of the presidency in the deal.

“How did it become possible for the (alleged) cocaine lady to use the VVIP (very very important personality) lounge of Kotoka International Airport?” Nitiwul asked.

“By what arrangement was she able to get the cocaine into the plane without being detected by all the security operatives at the airport?”

Aside Ametete, three of Ghana’s foreign affairs officials have been charged and remanded in custody for aiding and abetting the deal by allegedly allowing her to use the airport’s VVIP lounge, considered to be the presidential lounge.

As the ruling party and the opposition trade accusations on the drug deal, the president has come to strongly deny any link between himself, his family and the arrested drug dealer.