Counsel for Kwabena Adu Boahene, the former Director-General of the National Signals Bureau (NSB), Samuel Atta Akyea, has intimated that the ongoing investigation regarding his client has been turned upside down.
He believes the former National Security Minister, Albert Kan-Dapaah, should be the first person invited to answer questions on the matter.
Atta Akyea says whatever operations that happen within any unit of National Security were under the directive of the then Minister, and he cannot fathom why investigations would be ongoing without the Minister in charge being involved.
According to him, he would call Kan Dapaah to testify to exonerate his client when the time is due.
In an exclusive interview with TV3’s Beatrice Claire Abena Adu on Monday, September 15, 2025, he said if previous operations within the Ministry are being tagged as crimes, then the Minister in charge should be the principal witness.
“Don’t you think the investigation is sitting upside down? That you wouldn’t want to call Kan-Dapaah first? In fact, the first prosecution witness, if this is a crime, should be Kan-Dapaah,” he stated.
On Thursday, March 20, 2025, Kwabena Adu-Boahene, a former Director-General of the National Signals Bureau (NSB) of the National Security Council, was arrested at the Kotoka International Airport by a team of investigators from the Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO).
The following day, March 21, 2025 his wife- Angela Adjei Boateng was also arrested by EOCO.
These arrests followed investigations into the purchase of cyber intelligence equipment by the NSB, formerly known as the Bureau of National Communications (BNC), during Adu-Bohene’s tenure as the Director-General.
Recounting the facts leading to the arrest, the Attorney-General, Dr. Dominic Akuritinga Ayine, stated that EOCO received intelligence that Mr. Adu Boahene left Ghana for the UK and then to Dubai; and that suspecting an attempt to evade surveillance due to changes in his flight itinerary, a stop order was placed, leading to his arrest upon arrival on a British Airways flight.
The investigations according to the AG revealed that Mr. Adu Boahene, while serving as the director of BNC signed a contract on behalf of the government and the National Security Council with an Israeli company, ISC Holdings Limited, for a cyber defense system software at a cost of US$7 million.
It is alleged that between February and March 2020, Mr. Adu Boahene allegedly transferred a total of 49 million Ghana Cedis from the national BNC’s accounts to the private BNC’s account, purportedly for payment to ISC Holdings. However, only the equivalent of US$1.75 million (9.5 million Ghana Cedis at the time) was transferred to ISC Holdings.
The remaining amount, approximately 39.4 million Ghana Cedis, is alleged to have been used by Mr. Adu Boahene and his wife for personal ends, including investments in properties. Mr. Adu Boahene and his wife were therefore held in custody pending investigations.
They have currently been granted bail while investigations are ongoing.
But Mr. Atta Akyea believes the Minister in charge at the time shouldn’t be left off the hook, and if he’s to call him to testify to clarify his client’s case, he won’t hesitate to do so.
“Whoever should be called to exonerate Kwabena Adu-Boahene, I will call, if we come to that point. Because the so-called shenanigans were done under Kan-Dapaah when he was the Minister for National Security,” he stated.
