A 43-year-old Tema freight forwarder is in NACOC cells assisting investigations into the 2.6-tonne Spain cocaine seizure.

Published 13 Nov 2026, 14:11 GMT

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Two Arrested Over 2.6 Tonnes of Cocaine in Ghana Coconuts

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GhanaWeb reported on Thursday, citing a source at the Narcotics Control Commission, that the suspect operates at Community 1 in Tema and was picked up at about 3pm on Wednesday, November 11. He is being held in NACOC cells to assist with investigations, the report said.

According to that report, preliminary investigations found that an agent brought the shipment to the freight forwarding company and allegedly supplied the information used to prepare the customs documents for the exporters. Others connected to the shipment are being pursued.

NACOC has not issued a public statement on the arrest. The suspect has not been charged and is not named.

The arrest is the first publicly reported detention in Ghana linked to the Spanish seizure.

Ketu North MP Eric Edem Agbana had said on TV3’s New Day on Thursday morning that suspects had been arrested in Ghana after NACOC worked with the Spanish investigators, while cautioning: "I don’t speak for NACOC."

Spain’s Tax Agency and Civil Guard announced on Wednesday, November 11, that officers had found 2,600kg of cocaine under false bottoms fitted into wooden crates of coconuts inside two containers.

The boxes were loaded at the port of Tema on August 2 and reached Valencia on August 22, and video of the haul shows the scale of the concealment.

Spanish officers made no arrests at the port. Instead they removed the narcotics and tracked the load to a Viator warehouse in Almería, detaining two men as it was unloaded.

Spain identifies the pair as the consignment’s importer and the supervisor of the offloading. Neither has been named.

The seizure is the latest in a run of cocaine busts traced to Ghana.

In September, officers at Dunkirk in France seized almost 3.9 tonnes of cocaine from a container sent from Ghana.

The busts have piled pressure on the government.

The NPP wants the Interior Minister, the NACOC chief and the GACL chief sacked over the seizures abroad, while Majority Leader James Agalga says there will be no parliamentary inquiry.

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NACOC arrests Tema freight forwarder over 2.6-tonne Spain cocaine seizure

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