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Member of Parliament for La-Dadekotopon, Nii Amasa Namoale has said that the Central Regional Chairman of the ruling NDC, Allotey Jacobs was briefly held up for interrogation by security officials at the Heathrow Airport during his trip abroad.
The rumour opined that Bernard Allotey Jacobs was allegedly arrested in connection with his involvement in drug related money laundering offences.
The British High Commissioner to Ghana, Jon Benjamin subsequently denied reports that Allotey Jacobs has been arrested at the Heathrow Airport in the UK.
A member of New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) Communications team, Hopeson Adorye who first published the alleged incident on his Facebook page insisted that the Allotey Jacobs was arrested briefly and questioned over his alleged involvement in drug related offences.
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Commenting on the matter, Hon. Namoale, who met Allotey Jacobs in the USA during his visit, said that Allotey Jacobs was not arrested but questioned momentarily.
“In abroad there are thousands of people disembarking at the airports, a single plan carries about five hundred passengers at a time and every five minutes an airplane lands, if these whites want to search passengers individually, then it will take them a whole day to search people from one airplane. So they handpick and search some of the passengers and that is not based on prior information but it’s done at random,” he told Accra-based Kasapa FM.“So Allotey upon reaching Heathrow and was questioned by the security personnel on duty, a member of the NPP who was present realizing that he’s been left to go through the checkpoint while Allotey was held up, he waited at the arrival section and watched as all the passengers on the BA flight from Ghana walked off. After three hours of not seeing any sign of Allotey, he concluded that he had been arrested, but it wasn’t an arrest he was asked harmless questions and was allowed to go later. He went off to America. The NPP man thought Allotey was coming to the UK and so hours after not seeing him there, he concluded that he’d been arrested not knowing that he’d gone to the USA,” Hon. Namoale added.