We had a Minister of Internal Affairs who used cocaine and planned to enter "Basiani" with special forces?

Nika Oboladze, a member of the United National Movement, is responding to the statements of Irakli Kobakhidze, the General Secretary of the Georgian Dream, Kakha Kaladze, the party chairman, regarding the alleged drug addiction of former Prime Minister Giorgi Gakharia.

Oboladze calls on the representatives of the ruling party to either apologize for the fact that the country's Interior Minister and later Prime Minister was a drug user, or to admit that they were spreading false information about Gakharia.

"For the second week in a row, the General Secretary of the ruling party, Kakha Kaladze, has a campaign that Giorgi Gakharia, the leader of his team, at least from 2017 to 2021, was and is a drug user. Irakli Kobakhidze, the chairman of the ruling party, directly states that Giorgi Gakharia is a drug addict.

I would like to address Kakha Kaladze, when he was the second person in this party, one of the leaders and decision-makers, what does this mean? That we had an interior minister who used cocaine in the cabinet?
This means that "Georgian Dream" appointed the Minister of Internal Affairs in 2017, who used cocaine in the office of the agency, was a drug user and at that time was planning how to enter the club Basiani with special forces and look for cocaine there. In other words, we had a prime minister who used drugs and at that time was planning how to detain much lighter drug users in different villages, cities and districts," Oboladze said.

He also noted that if the information about Gakharia's drug addiction is true, a criminal case should be launched and the ruling team should take political responsibility.

"Today, hundreds of people in the country are serving sentences for drug use, and at this time how can the leaders of the "Georgian Dream" Kobakhidze and Kaladze dare, how can they come out and how they so arrogantly say that their Minister of Internal Affairs, their Prime Minister was a drug user. If this is the case, drug use is punishable under criminal law. Then a case should be launched against a specific person for drug use, and secondly, the "Georgian Dream "should take political responsibility to the end," Nika Oboladze said.