Minority demands Mahama take responsibility for Ghana’s border security failures
The Minority in Parliament has called on President John Dramani Mahama to take responsibility for what it describes as failures to protect Ghana's borders against drug trafficking, warning that repeated international narcotics seizures linked to the country are damaging its reputation. Minority Leader Alexander Afenyo-Markin said ongoing criminal prosecutions should not prevent the government from investigating possible institutional and supervisory failures within the country's security system. Speaking at a press briefing ahead of Parliament's resumption on Tuesday, November 3, 2026, he argued that the President had a responsibility to ensure the country's borders were secured and should account for the performance of the institutions mandated to do so. “An arrest is not a conviction. Equally, a pending criminal trial does not suspend administrative accountability as explained supra. The government can investigate supervisory failures and take lawful disciplinary action without prejudicing anyone's guilt. Our president has a responsibility for securing Ghana's borders, and he must answer for its poor performance so far,” he said.