President J.A. Kufuor is reported to be deeply worried and also angry with his Security Chiefs over the recent monumental security blunder that culminated in a dramatic escape of a cocaine-laden vessel from Ghana’s territorial waters. The Chronicle says the flop occurred despite adequate intelligence information to the security agencies. Accordingly, the President has charged his Security Chiefs to provide answers as to why and how the cocaine-laden Vessel, MT Jano sailed through Ghana’s territorial waters without being captured. The Chronicle last week published a thorough revelation of how the national security set-up had once again disappointed the nation on a drug related matter, at a time the MV Benjamin scandal was still fresh in the minds of Ghanaians. The revelations in the latest case, according to the paper, are what sparked the President’s anger. The paper quotes the President as charging his Security Lords; "Unlike the other case. I demand immediate answers on this particular case," clearly pointing out his frustrations over the security blunder. Perplexed and tensed up over the President's directive on the security fiasco, Security Bosses got together a team of operational men from the meeting late last week and told them to look into what might have accounted for the security failure. Sources could not disclose the full list of the participants at the crisis meeting but those present included, Interior Minister, Mr. Albert Kan Dapaah; Mr. Afari from the National Security Ministry; Mr. Adu Amankwaa, Head of the Organized Crime Unit of the Ghana Police Service; Mr. Mark from the Narcotic Control Board and other top Commanders of the Ghana Armed Forces drawn mainly from the Naval Command. Ahead of the commencement of investigations by the team of security men, The Chronicle says a significant blame game has already started with one security establishment accusing the other of not doing much to ensure the arrest of the cocaine vessel. Naval sources say the top Naval Command have been pointing accusing fingers at the Narcotic Control Board (NACOB), for not providing them with adequate information to enable them track down the vessel. Yesterday, Mr. Ewontoma, Director of Operations of the anti-drug institution, who had been mentioned by sources at Ghana Navy as being the one who was passing on intelligence information on the vessel to Navy, declined to comment on the accusation that he did not provide enough information to the Military, hence the failure. The NACOB operations man referred the paper’s reporter to Mr. Ben Botwe, the newly appointed Executive Secretary of NACOB for any information that was being sought. Mr. Botwe also declined to comment on the issue but pointed out that as far as he was concerned, NACOB did what it had to do about the vessel. He however indicated that he was not interested in blame games and would therefore not respond to any accusation from any quarters and referred the paper to the Interior Minister whom he said had been briefed adequately on the issue. Interior Minister, Mr. Kan Dapaah said investigations were ongoing about the matter and so would want that investigators be allowed to do their work for answers to be found to many questions that ought to be answered on the MT Jano case. The paper however says its latest intelligence information suggests that the cocaine vessel spent several days floating on Ghana’s waters after it run out of fuel days after the Navy and the entire security set-up of the nation had been alerted. It was after those several days that a local vessel, Tropic Sun, was contacted by an agent to supply fuel to the distressed MT Jano. Source: The Chronicle