The former Director General of the National Signals Bureau, Mr Kwabena Adu-Boahene, has restated his innocence in relation to charges of stealing and causing financial loss to the state preferred against him by the Attorney-General, Dr Dominic Ayine.
In a memo to the National Security Coordinator dated May 5, sighted by 3news, he said there is no way he would steal state funds.
“As this ridiculous drama unfolds. some forty-nine (49) million Ghana cedis of Special Operations funds have now become the subject of court action. where my wife and I. as well as other affiliates, are being accused with charges including stealing and causing financial loss to the state.
I have tried to withhold classified information from my interrogators, but I deem it prudent to inform your good office that in light of the current developments, we run the risk of public disclosure of the following National Security and Intelligence operations expenditure items:
I give you my highest assurances that Angela and I would never steal public funds, as is being deliberately and wickedly portrayed by the Attorney-General. In any case, how does one steal public funds in the manner being described by the Attorney-General without being flagged by the Auditor-General?… Further, I give you my highest assurances that Angela and I would never take what does not belong to us, even if privately arranged. We are full of content with the modest blessings God has given us ,” parts of the memo read.
He therefore wondered how the Attorney-General came to the conclusion that he has stolen money.
“You would recall that, subsequent to my arrest and detention in EOCO cells, the Attorney-General of the Republic has been very vocal in a number of press briefings. where he brands my wife and I as criminals and alludes to transactions between a certain ..National BNC” account and “Private BNC” accounts purportedly owned by us.
I cannot tell where the AG gets his theories from; but as your good office would have learned by now, the matter relates to transactions between your Special Services Account (Special Operations Account – “Coordinated Account”) and SPV account “BNC Communications Bureau.” duly authorised and created for the national security exigencies of the time – and for which my wife (duly vetted) and the UMB were instrumental in facilitating.
It is bizarre that the Attorney-General attempts to link unrelated transfers. withdrawals. and refunds for Special Operations with assets we do not own and a few we own which mostly predate the 2020 transactions he raised. A cursory look on the pan of anyone would reveal these facts,” he said.
He blamed the Executive Director of the Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO), Raymond Archer, of distortion of facts.
“What is evidently clear is that the EOCO boss, Raymond Archer is deliberately misrepresenting or distorting the facts to the authorities, and in the process causing unnecessary sensation that could embarrass the government and national security, and I am craving your urgent intervention to avert it before it becomes too late,” he alleged.
