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Member of Parliament for Assin Central in the Central Region, Hon Kennedy Ohene Agyapong has bemoaned the rate at which Alhaji Iddrisu Bature and other rented NDC newspapers are hell bent to �kill� the recent cocaine saga by diverting attention. According to him, there is a ploy by some people to use the NDC rented newspapers to destroy him [Ken] and tame him from speaking further on the Nayele Ametefe cocaine saga by linking him to the embattled lady. The Al-Hajj newspaper, on Tuesday published that the British intelligence services including both the MI5 and MI6 have directed their investigative radar on Kennedy Ohene Agyapong, over what sources said is his involvement in the recent illicit drug case of Nayele Ametefe. In response to the issue on Okay Fm�s Ade Akye Abia Morning Show, Hon. Ken Agyapong said he was neither surprised nor worried about the attempt by the rented press to divert the cocaine saga to him. He said that he will stay focused because it is an embarrassment to Ghanaians who travel to Europe on Ghanaian passports because they will be subjected to all kinds of humiliation at the airport by the security officer as a result of the Nayele incident. He feared that with the way Africans tend to defend criminals over honest people, the continent will be bereft of role models for the younger generation; calling for a change of attitude in Ghanaians in order to have honest role models. �What I have seen in Africa is that we tend to worship criminals and chastise honest people. We need to change that otherwise we will not have role models in this country; the role models we will have will be drug dealers and armed robbers. That�s why I�m sacrificing myself to stand against the wrongdoings in society��I will stay focused and discuss this drug issue because if you travel outside the shores of the country on a Ghanaian passport, the embarrassment is unbearable when you are being searched at the airport�.I am a role model to a lot of youth in this country�, he asserted. He therefore called for a holistic approach to dealing with the illicit drug trade in the country as report says 30 per cent of drugs moving to Europe are transited in Ghana; adding it is an indictment to the country for people to shield drug dealers and chastise honest people.