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�It is a fact that Ruby possesses an Austrian passport but it is also a fact that she possesses a regular Ghanaian passport and so on that basis, the consular section of our High Commission in the UK could go and offer her consular services� I believe the minority are aware of this� in my view, many of the questions that raised were redundant because answers exists for them,� remarked Deputy Minister of Communication, Felix Kwakye-Ofosu. His comment comes on the back of a Press Conference organized by the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Minority in Parliament on Wednesday calling for the setting up of a bi-partisan parliamentary committee to look into the Nayele Ametefe Cocaine saga. At the Press Conference, led by Minority Leader, Osei Kyei Mensah-Bonsu, the following questions were raised:- There are Questions begging for answers: 1. Why has NACOB, the mandated agency, maintained a stony silence and allowed the ministry responsible for information to misinform the country? 2. What has happened to the 2006 Operation Westbridge Collaboration between Ghana and the United Kingdom which in 2010 the Guardian newspaper of UK stated had become beset by corruption? 3. Why did government resort to the knee-jerk reaction of dissolving the Board of NACOB whilst leaving the field operatives? 4. Who wrote the false statement which was signed by the Deputy Executive Secretary about the collaboration between NACOB and the UK security agents which turned out to be, as has become usual of this government, a mere propaganda gimmick? 5. What has become of those who authored and signed the manipulated information which has turned out to be a choreographed lie? 6. How did it become possible for the cocaine lady to use the VVIP lounge of Kotoka International Airport? 7. By what arrangement was she able to get the cocaine into the plane without being detected by all the security operatives at the airport? 8. If the purpose of NACOB�s lie was to ride on the back of a credible partner to prevent any local inquisition into the Nayele Ametefeh cocaine scandal, then the question to ask is whose bidding was NACOB doing, was the Mahama government behind NACOB�s deception? 9. The Minister of Foreign Affairs in an interview stated that Ruby Ametefeh had been interviewed and had made some startling revelations. The question arises, who in what capacity interviewed her and who were present at the interview? 10. The Minister of Foreign Affairs averred that some people - �airport officials� carried the substance which she, Ametefeh, believed to be gold. Who are the people, the airport officials, who carried the substance to her in her first class cabin. 11. The Minister confirmed that two other girls were with Nayele Ametefeh; that all three used the VVIP lounge at KIA. Who are the two other girls. Their identities which would have been captured by the CCTV at the VVIP lounge should be revealed. 12. The Minister of Foreign Affairs indicated that the other two ladies carried 5 kilograms of cocaine. How did the Minister know this? The two ladies, unlike Nayele Ametefeh knew that the substance they were carrying was cocaine and not gold, Minister? But speaking in an interview on Citi Eye Witness news, the Deputy Minister expressed surprise at those questions because according to him, the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Madam Hannah Tetteh, had already explained and given answers to most of the questions they raised. And so �Why will the minority hold a Press Conference and ask questions that they know answers already exists? The questions they raised are not begging for answers; answers already exist� I don�t believe there is room for unnecessary speculations as the Minority sought to do. The issues they raised are already in the public domain� and therefore it is surprising that they will create the impression that some wrong doings have taken place or government wants to hide something from the public�. He however, assured that government is taking steps to ensure that unauthorized persons do not use the VVIP lounge.