The Minority in Parliament has sounded the alarm over two suspicious flights that landed in Ghana earlier this month, demanding urgent answers from National Security.
The flights in question are Air Med Flight NH23AM, an air ambulance, and Cavok Air’s Antonov An-12B private jet.
The flights, an air ambulance and a private jet reportedly arrived in early March, lingered for days, and departed for Gran Canaria, a Spanish island with a notorious reputation as a hub for international drug cartels.
The Minority is not mincing words, calling for full disclosure on the aircraft’s cargo, which they suspect may include cocaine and cash.
John Ntim Fordjour, Ranking Member of the Defence and Interior Committee, has taken the lead, urging authorities to reveal the truth behind the flights.
He said “The minority caucus calls on national security to, as a matter of urgency, make public the contents of cargo suspected to be cocaine and cash, transported into the country by two suspicious flights, namely Air Med flights NH23AM and Karvok Air private jets Antonov An-12B, which landed on the tarmac of Kotoka International Airport in March 2025 from Gran Canaria, an island of Spain, and departed to the same Gran Canaria days after the arrival.”
According to Ntim Fordjour, their intercepted intelligence reveals that, the air ambulance landed at Kotoka International Airport on March 20, 2025, and remained in Ghana for five days before departing in the early hours of March 25.
He explained “Reliable intelligence intercepted by the minority caucus indicates that on March 20, 2025, Air Med flight NH23AM, which is an air ambulance, and I must stress it’s an air ambulance designed specifically to carry patients, landed at Kotoka International Airport in Accra, Ghana, and remained in the country for five days before departing 1am on March 25, 2025, back to Gran Canaria.”
The extended stay of an air ambulance a vessel typically reserved for urgent medical missions has raised serious red flags.
What is Gran Canaria known for?
In October 2024, Canarian weekly reports that, a joint operation between the Guardia Civil and the National Police has resulted in the arrest of nine people involved in drug trafficking across the Canary Islands.
The detainees, of Spanish and Nigerian nationalities and with previous criminal records, were smuggling significant quantities of drugs into Gran Canaria, Lanzarote, and Fuerteventura using human couriers, also known as “mules”, who carried the narcotics either internally or hidden in luggage.
Authorities confirmed that these individuals were involved in transporting large amounts of cocaine and heroin.
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