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National Youth Organizer of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), Sammy Awuku has insisted that the Nayele Ametefe cocaine saga will certainly be politicized as the country is not ruled by a charity organization but by a political party who failed to do its work well. According to him, the rules of engagement has changed as the NDC will have to take the full responsibility of the loopholes in the security system because it takes a political will to fight the drug trade. Speaking on Okay FM�s Ade Akye Abia programme, Sammy Awuku insisted that if it was possible for the NDC to politicize drug trade under NPP despite the scanners at the airport, it is also fair to blame the NDC especially where there are no scanners to track drug traffickers. He however wondered why the Ghanaian mission in the UK went to visit the busted cocaine lady in prison when the lady had told them she is not a Ghanaian but an Austrian; adding that it is surprising to see the kind of defense the NDC and government communication team are giving whenever Ruby Adu Gyamfi�s name is mentioned. �Ruby Adu Gyamfi travelled from Ghana as an Austrian and when she landed at the Heathrow Airport she showed her Austrian passport and so to the British Authority, they were not dealing with a Ghanaian. Hannah Tetteh revealed that Ghana mission in UK when they went to meet Ruby, she ask why they are there because she didn�t travel on a Ghanaian passport,� he stated. �If you are fighting drug trade, the best way to stop this kind of trade is to resource NACOB, State Agencies, Police, BNI and CID but under President Mahama�s reign, the biggest arrest was done in Germany; Delta Airline flew to New York and one of the largest drug trade was recorded because there are no measures under this government to stop the illicit drugs,� he pinpointed. He further revealed that all the drug traffickers except Amoateng were arrested under NDC regime; insisting that the government is not a charity organization but rather a political administration and it will be difficult to decouple drug trade from the politics of this government. �This is what is happening under NDC government because there are no resources to fight drug trade. The cocaine trade under NDC is simple; what you need is VVIP lounge. How could ordinary Austrian lady with foreign passport travel from Ghana through VVIP lounge where only the President and ministers are allow to travel through?� he quizzed.