Parliament returns from recess today, Tuesday, September 29, for an extraordinary sitting following mounting concerns over a series of major narcotics seizures linked to consignments from Ghana.
The House is scheduled to sit at noon at Parliament House in Accra after Speaker Alban Bagbin recalled MPs under Article 112(3) of the 1992 Constitution and Order 53 of the Standing Orders.
Although the Speaker’s original notice did not spell out the specific business for the sitting, the reconvening follows a request by the Minority for urgent parliamentary scrutiny of the drug seizures and their implications for national security.
The Minority has cited several seizures since 2025, including the interception of nearly 3.9 tonnes of cocaine at France’s Port of Dunkirk in September 2026 from a container that had departed Ghana.
The caucus says the incidents raise questions about Ghana’s ports, customs controls, intelligence gathering and narcotics enforcement systems.
The Minority wants relevant Ministers and officials from institutions including the Narcotics Control Commission, Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority, Ghana Revenue Authority and National Intelligence Bureau to account to Parliament on the circumstances surrounding the consignments.
Ahead of today’s sitting, First Deputy Minority Whip and Tolon MP Habib Iddrisu has also filed a private members’ motion seeking the establishment of an Ad Hoc Committee to conduct a parliamentary inquiry into the seizures.
The proposed inquiry would examine the adequacy of scanning, surveillance and intelligence systems at Ghana’s ports, airports and other entry and exit points, as well as the status of investigations, arrests and prosecutions arising from the seizures.
It would also assess cooperation between Ghanaian authorities and their counterparts in countries including France and Australia, and examine efforts to identify the alleged financiers, organisers and wider networks behind major narcotics trafficking operations.
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