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A legal practitioner, Egbert Faibille, has jabbed government officials for using the resurrected MV Benjamin cocaine case to score cheap political points in an election year. In 2006, 77 parcels of cocaine aboard the vessel MV Benjamin disappeared mysteriously leading to the incarceration of one Kwabena Amaning alias Tagor and Alhaji Issah Abass. A key suspect in the case, Sheriff Asem Dake, popularly known as the �Limping Man� was recently arrested after having arrived in the country and he is alleged to have dropped some sensitive information that could lead to the arrest of certain key figures in Ghana. However, Mr. Faibille believes officials of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) are only engaging in �psychological warfare� to shift attention from some policy failures. Mr. Faibille, who doubles as a newspaper editor of the Ghanaian Observer, told an Accra-based radio station Joy Fm on Monday that the state should produce the names and arrest those implicated by Mr. Dake instead of keeping the whole nation in �needless� suspense. One particular government official, Koku Anyidoho, who is the Communications Director at the Presidency, has insisted that Asem Dake is �singing like a canary� and by the time the matter is dealt with thoroughly, no one in the loop of the historic drug case will be spared � �be it a former president, be it a sitting president. � Mr. Faibille believes Mr. Anyidoho�s assertion only �leads to rumours and needless suspicions. � He said: �Someone has dropped names allegedly and why take him to court without the others� the state has the power to pick up anybody upon reasonable suspicion� what kind of innuendos are these. Why don�t they swoop once and keep everybody? ��What kind of game are we playing? Is it to satisfy political whims and caprices,� he added.