SLPHA Questions Veracity Of The Claim

In response to allegations of a shipment of Class A goods (cocaine) from the Port of Sierra Leone in August 2022, to the United Kingdom, en route to an industrial estate at Wigan, the management of the Sierra Leone Port and Habour Authority (SLPHA) maintained that its record does not have any such shipment, as alleged in the Manchester Evening News. Also, as should be the usual practice, no communication or report of the said shipment was made by the National Crime Agency of the UK to it.

The SLPHA furthered that export records presented to it has no record of any shipment of flour (within which the said cocaine consignment was hidden), as claimed by the said publication

SLPHA has informed the Transnational Organized Crime Unit (TOCU) and other security agencies to investigate the said allegation.

Some commentators say that with such a serious allegation and the interception of the alleged huge consignment claimed in the publication, it is a wonder that the British authorities did not get to Sierra Leone Port and Habour Authority on the matter. And to think that 7 suspects were arraigned in Court in the UK on the alleged drug shipment from Sierra Leone, and not a single authority was contacted, is suggestive of some mischief at play, and thorough Investigation is needed to exonerate the Freetown Port, that has earned do much accolades in recent times.