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The aL-hAJJ can reveal that the British intelligence services including both the MI5 and MI6 have directed their investigative radar on the garrulous New Patriotic Party (NPP) Member of Parliament, Kennedy Ohene Agyepong, over what sources said his involvement in the recent illicit drug case of Nayele Amatefe fame. Though the Ghanaian-born Austrian cocaine baroness at the center of the recent busted 12.5kg of cocaine at the Heathrow Airport in the United Kingdom, Nayele Ametefe, activated the sacred Italian Mafia code, Omerta, and has refused to make incriminating comments in a London court when she appeared before a British magistrate at the Isleworth Crown Court in West London last Thursday, she is reported to have earlier made startling revelations to interrogators that are said to have indicted the hot-headed Ghanaian legislature. Sources close to the investigators in London and Ghanaian diplomatic circles have revealed that the cocaine baroness, currently facing a possible 15 years imprisonment in the UK has mentioned the name of a certain prominent opposition Member of Parliament (MP) amongst people she has had dealings with in Ghana over the past years she had made forays in the despicable narcotics trade. Though the sources will not narrow Ms Ametefs�s description to the owner of Kencity Media and New Patriotic Party (NPP) legislator for Assin Central, Kennedy Ohene Agyepong, The aL-hAJJ�s sources close to Nana Akua Amponsah and Sadalia Nuhu, the two other Ghanaian girls who travelled with the busted cocaine girl but absconded and are now in the Ghanaian custody, say it must be the self-acclaimed NPP financier. �It must be him, it must be him because, even though Ruby was his pal and a close friend to two of his numerous concubines, one, who has two children for him and operating a liquor shop on Lagos Avenue at East Legon and the other of Northern descent living around Haatso-Ashongma, near Accra who also has children with him, we suddenly notice for some time now and for unknown reasons, the two are at loggerheads�, they don�t see eye-to-eye�. A source who pleaded anonymity told The aL-hAJJ. Also, our source said, the British intelligence are curious about the depth of knowledge and insight exhibited recently by the Assin Central MP about the drug baroness, her associates, her movements and that of her close pals. Intelligence sources are convinced that the talkative MP could have a special relation with Neyele Ametefe aka Ruby Adu Gyamfi, currently languishing in British cells. Both the MI5 and the MI6 and other British secret service personnel are already on the ground in Ghana here sieving through a pool of evidence available to them on the likely involvement of the NPP MP and others in the case. One particular account the British would focus their investigations on according to our intelligence sources, is a supposed rift between Kennedy Agyepong and another NPP Member of Parliament) is said to owe the MP but has refused to pay. The British intelligence are said to be also interested in the sources of that money. According to the sources, should they get enough evidence on any role he played in cocaine case or �other� drug related matters, the �British government is likely to press the Mahama administration for his extradition to the UK to join Ametefe in facing the long arm of the British law�. Less than 48 hours after news broke in the Ghanaian media on the arrest in London of Neyele Ametefe and how she got access through the VIP lounge at the Kotoka International Airport to traffic 12.5kg of cocaine, the loudmouth NPP braggart started hopping from one media house to other revealing supposed guarded information about her. It was a jaw-dropping experience for many Ghanaians when the NPP MP on many media platforms revealed the lavish lifestyle of the cocaine goddess, her movements, what she does and whom she sleeps with, and specifically mentioned the name of business magnate Ibrahim Mahama as one of her bedmates, an allegation that was flatly denied. Kennedy Agyapong, known for his unprovoked vituperations, however, disappointed his NPP fanatics busily trying hard to link President Mahama and his wife to Neyele Ametefe, when he emphatically cleared the first family of having any links with her but said the lady was a girl friend of President Mahama�s brother, Ibrahim Mahama. Mr. Ibrahim has however, denied the allegations from the NPP MP that he has any linkage with the said drug angel and dared him to provide evidence. Even as information about Neyele Ametefe�s arrest was still sketchy, it was Kennedy Agyapong, who in his usual audacious mood, revealed that the �Cocaine Angel� travelled with two other ladies who he said, managed to abscond to Ghana but had gone into hiding in Togo. Without mincing words, the Assin Central MP, who himself over the years had to struggle to clear himself of numerous cocaine allegations, dared the President�s brother to deny knowledge of Ruby, warning he was fully prepared to release pictures of the two to buttress his claim. But, in a direct riposte, Mr Ibrahim Mahama has dared the Kencity Media owner to publish the said pictures and has threatened to drag Kennedy Agyapong to court if he fails. Meanwhile, The aL-hAJJ sources in both London and Ghana say the arrest of the Ghanaian-born Austrian cocaine baroness could become a breakthrough in the two commonwealth nations� fight against damaging narcotic trade, as names of the drug barons and their partners in both countries have begun surfacing. Already, about 12 people have so far been arrested in this Nayele cocaine scandal with the possibility of more arrests. The swift actions of the Ghanaian anti-drug agencies have sent strong messages to prospective drug traffickers in the country.