Her name, Nayele Ametefe, suggest she is a Voltarian, but what many Ghanaians may not know about the cocaine goddess, currently serving eight year jail term in the United Kingdom for trafficking 12.5 kg of cocaine with street value of $5million dollars is that; she has no ties with the Volta region.
The now 35-year-old incarcerated Ghanaian-born Austrian citizen, The aL-hAJJ’s investigations have uncovered, is an Akan named Ruby Appiah at birth but had to change her name to Ruby Adu Gyamfi after having a brush with the law in Amsterdam in the Netherlands where his father resides.
Those who know her, particularly those living around Dzorwulu and its environs, know Nayele as owner of the state-of-art electrical store, Night Angels, located off the Achimota-Tetteh Quashie section of the George Walker Bush N1 Highway.
Even though her electrical shop where she sells chandeliers and other exotic electrical appliances was a booming business, her extravagant lifestyle, the plush cars she cruised in town and the people she hanged out with made many people believe the bulb shop could be a cover up for what she truly does for a living.
Until her arrest on November 9, 2014, Nayele Ametefe, who again had to change her name from Ruby Adu Gyamfi to her present ewe name (more on that later), among those she dated included business tycoons, prominent entrepreneurs including one of Africa’s richest men who was to later buy her a custom made top of the Range Rover.
Like a coat of many colors, Nayele Ametefe, lived life to the fullest after breaking up with her spare parts dealer hubby at Abossey Okai with whom she had three offsprings.
Hardly do you hear her close friends call her by her name. She had several aliases, including Ruby Mahama, Angel, Naana among others.
Gossips are that almost all the top men she dated which included an influential and powerful CEO of a state organization (more on that later), know her by different names.
In other to disguise herself after she was busted of similar act some years back, the cocaine goddess is reported to have undergone plastic surgery. What many Ghanaians do not know also is that, the drug lady is well connected and known to top drug barons both in Ghana and outside Ghana (more on that soon).
As Ghanaians went to bed on the November 9, 2014, Nayele Ametefe boarded British Airways flight number BA 078 from Accra to London.
But luck eluded her when she was arrested at Heathrow International Airport some six hours later.
She had flown on a first class ticket using travel miles on British Airways point. The ticket had been purchased on 8th October, 2014 and had to be altered three times for obvious reasons, the Ghana Narcotics Control Board disclosed.
Her arrest started trending on social media as a rumor out of which a picture of a well-known NDC activist, Francisca Mawupemor, was widely circulated as the lady caught in the cocaine web. NACOB was to later issue a statement confirming Nayale’s arrest in the UK with cocaine weighing 12.5kg after having travelled on an Austrian passport.
Interestingly, although she had in her possession two suitcases, only one of the suitcases was checked-in at Kotoka International Airport (KIA) with baggage tag number BA 05980 and nothing of interest was found.
The other suitcase however, which contained the cocaine wrapped in one kilo blocks did not go through routine custom check at the KIA.
It is worthy to note that Nayele Ametefe travelled on Austrian passport number P4187659, and not on Ghanaian Diplomatic passport as was initially reported in the local media. She had in her possession an ordinary Ghanaian passport number G0364497 issued on 3rd August, 2012.
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