22 November 2007
British Girls Found Guilty of trying to smuggle drugs out of Ghana
This article from the Independent raises the wider issues of the role of Ghana in drug smuggling from Latin America to Europe. It mentions Operation Westbridge , a joint Ghanaian and UK police investigation of drug smuggling and the case of the Benjamin, a ship that was identified as "of interest" but slipped through the net into port and the majority of whose cargo of cocaine vanished. Allegations of police corruption have followed, but nothing has been proved.
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This is of great personal interest as I had a student from Ghana 15 years or so ago, who wrote his M.A. dissertation on Ghanaian drug mules and argued that they were primarily "market women", who used drugs as a form of hard currency in order to purchase white goods for sale on the domestic Ghanaian market. Operation Westbridge suggests that things have changed greatly.
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