Operatives of the Bureau of National Investigations (BNI) have picked up the General Manager of local radio station, Citi FM, Samuel Attah Mensah.

The arrest is believed to be in connection with a publication by the station’s news portal, citifmonline, linking a lady busted with cocaine in London to the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC).

Legal practitioner, Egbert Faibille Jn. confirmed the arrest to Myjoyonline.com.

He said he and another lawyer have yet to see the manager of the radio station.

Mr Faibille said Mr. Attah Mensah popularly called Samens has been denied his right to see his lawyers for now.

He said whilst Samen's car has been parked at the headquarters of the BNI, the man himself has been bundled into a security vehicle and sent to an unknown location.

His protests that he wanted to see his lawyers have been ignored, Egbert said.

Mr. Faibille later told Joy FM's Top Story that the happenings were strange.

He said even if Samens was accused of treason, that would not be justification for the BNI to refuse him access to his lawyers.

The lawyer argued that linking the suspect - arrested with 12.5 kilograms of cocaine at Heathrow Airport in London - to the governing party in and of itself could not constitute such a grave criminal act to warrant the kind of high-handed intervention by the BNI being witnessed.

For him, this is not the first time a political party has been tagged with drug dealing.

He found the arrest of the manager of the radio station and the refusal of the BNI to grant his lawyers access to him as unacceptable in a democratic dispensation.

Deputy Communications Minister Felix Kwarkye Ofosu, told Asempa FM's Ekosii Sen he had no details on the circumstances of the arrest.

He, however, insisted that the security agency has a right to do its work and he is convinced the BNI will do its work within legal bounds.

"To the best of my knowledge, the lady", Nayele Ametefe, "is not a member of the NDC," he stated.

Meanwhile, the Narcotics Control Board has issued a statement explaining the circumstances under which the suspected cocaine dealer was arrested.

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