Rumours had been rife on Ghanaian social media platforms, particularly Facebook, that the chairman of the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the Central Region, Bernard Allotey Jacobs had been busted on the morning of Sunday May 29 at Heathrow Airport in the United Kingdom by officials of the National Crime Agency for possession of narcotics.
The grapevine had it that Mr Allotey Jacobs had concealed cocaine with a street value of €500,000 in his luggage on a British Airways flight BA078 from Accra to London.
However, in contrary to speculations on social media, Mr. Allotey's special aide Nurudeen Kobina Essah said Mr Allotey Jacobs was in the United States, rather than the UK, as a member of the National Petroleum Authority (NPA) delegation attending an oil and gas conference in that country.
The British High Commissioner to Ghana, Jon Benjamin has also denied reports that the Central Regional Chairman of the governing National Democratic Congress was arrested in the UK.
