According to the minister, this will help deal with suspected leaks within the security services, which were hampering Ghana’s fight against drug trafficking.

We are going to be doing polygraph of every person that will be part of an operation so that we can at least vouch their integrity in terms of what we are going to be doing, he said.

Again, he said some informants have also been demanding high rewards in exchange for information, which is very expensive for the state to afford.

Speaking in a radio interview monitored by Graphic Online on Joy FM on Monday morning (October 12), the Interior Minister cited an example of an informant who approached the Director-General of the Narcotics Control Commission (NACOC) and demanded $20 million in exchange for information about a major drug consignment. 

He said such huge demands for reward by informants were complicating Ghana’s fight against drug trafficking and questioned how the state could meet such a demand when security agencies operated with limited resources.

He said other individuals had also approached the authorities with information but insisted on receiving money before disclosing details.

Mr Mohammed-Mubarak said suspected leaks of sensitive operational information are also compromising investigations and undermining the confidence of Ghana’s international security partners.

He said suspected insider involvement had also raised concerns about the security of intelligence shared between Ghanaian agencies and their foreign counterparts.

He explained that foreign security officials often exchanged intelligence through professional networks before governments pursued formal cooperation through mutual legal assistance procedures.

He said suspicions that people with access to sensitive information could be linked to trafficking networks risked undermining the confidence of international partners in the security of information shared with Ghana.

The minister said Ghana had formally engaged relevant foreign authorities over the ongoing cases and that cooperation remained active.

He cited arrests linked to investigations involving France, Belgium, the Netherlands and Australia.

To address the concerns, Mr Mohammed-Mubarak said the authorities were reviewing operational procedures and training additional personnel to allow officers assigned to sensitive duties to be rotated more frequently.

He said about 84 people currently being tried in various narcotic cases at the courts have been remanded and in custody.

The minister clarified that the figure covered several cases and did not mean all 84 suspects were linked to the cocaine consignment seized in France.