Gbevlo Lartey also debunked claims that Mr. Adelaquaye was head of security at the airport saying his (Adelaquaye’s) company was only responsible for security at “peripheral places” such as the car park.
Solomon Adelaquaye was arrested by US authorities in May for the trafficking of a substance believed to be cocaine, and government subsequently suspended the contract with Sohin Security.
Following his arrest, the opposition New Patriotic Party [NPP] alleged that he was a financier of the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) and questioned the background checks conducted by the Ghana Airport Company before hiring Sohin Security Company.
Some even pointed to the suspect’s close relationship with the National Security Coordinator, with critics calling on him to step aside whiles President John Mahama institute a public inquiry into the matter.
But speaking on ‘News Night’ on Joy FM today, Col. Gbevlo Lartey stridently distanced himself from the drug baron, stating categorically that he does not “know him.
"I’ve never had a conversation with him” and added that he “talked with that guy only once” when his security personnel made dubious claims to some properties.
He also disclosed that the US Drugs Enforcement Administration (DEA) acted in close collaboration with their Ghanaian counterparts to apprehend the suspect.
“These things are all operations that we started from beginning to the end. So, it has nothing to do with porosity of security at the airport. These operations are operations that we ourselves have organized to get the people to get into the US and be arrested…It’s not cocaine, it was heroin.”
Whiles blaming the media for misleading the public and trying to rope him in, the National Security capo said he is undaunted by the attacks on his character.
“This politicking of it doesn’t really bother me. I don’t give a hoot about it. I’ll continue doing my work to the best that I can,” he asserted.
Source: Ameyaw Adu Gyamfi/Peacefmonline.com/Ghana
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