Published: June 22, 2026
A Call to Investigate Serious Allegations Along the Drug Trail
The United Nations, the United States, and leading security institutions have long warned that drug trafficking, transnational organized crime, corruption, and regional instability are interconnected threats.
History offers a clear lesson. Following the tragic 9/11 terrorist attacks, governments and the international community tightened controls on terrorist financing through the banking system. Criminal and extremist networks adapted by turning to natural resources. As scrutiny increased on illicit mineral trades, including gold and diamonds, many networks shifted again toward narcotics trafficking and the cocaine trade. As the U.S. disrupted and dismantled trafficking routes across the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea, smuggling networks appeared to migrate toward West Africa, where weak governance, corruption, and fragile security institutions create fertile ground for transnational crime. Criminal enterprises survive by exploiting the weakest link.
Today, violent extremist groups are expanding across the Sahel—particularly in Niger, Mali, and Burkina Faso—while trafficking networks exploit porous borders and weak institutions throughout West Africa. The UN has repeatedly warned that narcotics trafficking fuels corruption, weakens state authority, and undermines regional security.
In this context, Liberia occupies a strategically important position in a volatile region and hosts significant diplomatic, commercial, humanitarian, and international interests. As a longstanding partner of the United States and the international community, Liberia’s security is directly tied to the protection of international assets, diplomatic missions, foreign investments, and regional stability.
Therefore, a compromised anti-drug campaign does more than embolden traffickers and threaten national, regional, and international security; it also mortgages the future of Liberia’s youth, exposing another generation to addiction, criminal exploitation, lost opportunity, and the social decay that follows in the wake of unchecked narcotics networks.
Separated from the Sahel’s growing instability by only a handful of borders, Liberia cannot afford to become the next preferred corridor for transnational trafficking syndicates. That is why the US$19 million cocaine scandal is not merely a criminal matter—it is a national security test of extraordinary proportions.
This is no time for politics. If the Government of Liberia and the President were serious about protecting the country, safeguarding international assets, preserving investor confidence, defending national security, securing the future of young people, and enforcing their proclaimed “Zero Tolerance” policy against drug trafficking, they would have gone to the heart of this scandal and pursued the “Big Fish” through thorough investigation, prosecution, and conviction.
But that does not appear to be the case. Instead, the focus seems to be on winning a public relations battle rather than exposing the alleged masterminds.
Our determination to get to the bottom of the US$19 million cocaine scandal has therefore led to a relentless search for the truth. Through sources we consider highly credible, we have identified several individuals who, based on allegations and available information, warrant scrutiny regarding the importation, operations, financing, or protection of the cocaine shipment.
This is not a declaration of guilt against any individual. Rather, it is a call for investigation. The cocaine entered Liberia on their watch, and some occupy positions of authority and responsibility over national security. They are legitimate subjects of inquiry and should be examined to determine whether there was direct participation, complicity, negligence, failure of oversight, or any degree of knowledge or involvement in what appears to be an organized cocaine-smuggling operation. Some local officials have also been linked to individuals facing international drug-related allegations and controversies.
Therefore, any serious investigation into the US$19 million cocaine scandal that fails to invite the following individuals for questioning cannot reasonably be viewed as a serious effort to identify the kingpins behind this operation:
Col. Gregory Coleman, Inspector General of Police; Dutch fugitive Jos Leijdekkers, who has been the subject of reports alleging protection within Sierra Leone; Bilal Abraham and his wife Tannah Abraham, owners of TRH Trading Corporation, a fresh frozen food distribution business; Tamba (“Tantan”) Boakai, son of Liberia President Joseph Boakai; LDEA Officer-in-Charge Fitzgerald T. M. Biag, who also serves as Deputy Commander of Police & a close associate & confidante of the Police Director; Ibrahim Mahama, Ghanaian businessman and CEO of Engineers & Planners (E&P), who donated 20 Toyota vehicles to the Liberia National Police and 1,200 KVA generators to Roberts International Airport; the “King Brothers” (Peter Malcolm King, member of the Board of Directors of NASSCORP, founder and CEO of GLS Group, Chairman of GLS-NAS, and Chairman of the Liberia Inland Storage & Distribution Facility, and Paul Jamal King, senior executive of GLS.
While our investigation continues, these are among the individuals we believe should be invited for questioning to help establish the origin and importation of more than 2,000 kilograms of cocaine and uncover the full chain behind its entry into Liberia—a national security failure of enormous proportions.
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