Interior Minister Mubarak Mohammed Muntaka has alleged that cannabis traffickers are using ambulances and bullion vans to transport the drug as authorities step up efforts to clamp down on illegal cultivation and trafficking.
Speaking to journalists on Monday, October 12, 2026, Mr Muntaka said security agencies had received intelligence suggesting that vehicles typically used for emergency medical services and cash transportation were being exploited to conceal and move cannabis.
He raised concerns about the growing tolerance for cannabis cultivation in some communities, where residents appeared to view the practice as normal rather than a serious concern.
“In most of our communities, cultivation of these weeds and other things, they take it lightly because they assume that probably it is not really consuming,” he said.
Mr Muntaka said the government was intensifying efforts to eradicate cannabis farms, arrest suspects and use intelligence-driven operations to track down those involved in the illicit trade.
“We are dealing with it, we are destroying the farms, we are arresting,” he stated.
Recounting a recent operation, Mr Muntaka said security personnel had followed up on intelligence that dried cannabis was being stored in a shrine.
“When the men with the boots got there, they said it’s a shrine, they entered there and collected everything,” he said.
Mr Muntaka said the operation later triggered a complaint from the shrine’s owners, who accused the security personnel of desecrating the sacred site.
He further alleged that some individuals were using ambulances to transport cannabis rather than convey patients requiring medical attention.
“Sometimes, you’d see an ambulance coming from those areas, and then we will get intel that this is not carrying a sick person; it is carrying weed,” he said.
He said security officers conducting checks on such vehicles had, on some occasions, found cannabis inside instead of patients in need of medical care.
“You stop it, and then you see that it is full of weed,” he said.
Mr Muntaka also alleged that some bullion vans designated to transport money for the Bank of Ghana were being used to convey cannabis.
“And then you have bullion; they send Bank of Ghana money there, and then when they are coming they carry weeds,” he stated.
The Minister’s remarks point to the tactics security agencies are reportedly encountering as they step up efforts to tackle cannabis trafficking and illegal cultivation.
He said the government would sustain operations to destroy cannabis farms, arrest suspects and use intelligence-led strategies to track down those involved in the illicit trade.
