Founder and President of IMANI Centre for Policy and Education, Franklin Cudjoe, has called for a routine lifestyle audit of government appointees.
He says the act of waiting till a certain administration gets out of office before its appointees are audited should be avoided to reduce the excessive looting of state assets.
His comments come on the back of the discovery made against the former Director-General of the National Signals Bureau (NSB), Kwabena Adu-Boahene, by the Attorney-General, Dr. Dominic Akuritinga Ayine, regarding his alleged diversion of state funds into his personal account.
In a post on his Facebook Tuesday, March 25, 2025, Mr. Cudjoe expressed shock over the huge sums of monies stolen by the former NSB boss without attractive interest from persons close to him.
Franklin Cudjoe is calling on the public to support the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) to conduct audits about persons appointed into government portfolios.
The Attorney-General at a press conference in Accra Monday, March 24, 2025, asserted that Adu-Boahene allegedly misappropriated US$7 million earmarked for the procurement of cybersecurity infrastructure.
The A-G says the contract was signed between the Minister and an Israeli firm, RLC Holdings Limited, on January 30, 2020, to supply the cyber defence system software.
But barely a week after the contract was signed, the Dr. Ayine indicated that Adu-Boahene allegedly transferred an initial sum of GH¢27.1 million from the National Signals Bureau’s Fidelity Bank account to a UMB private account of BNC, the private firm he set up with his wife.
Meanwhile, the amount, despite it being transferred into his personal account, was recorded as payment for the cyber defence system software according to the Attorney-General.
Dr. Ayine, who is also the Member of Parliament for Bolgatanga East, averred further that subsequent investigations revealed the transferred funds were redirected to a private company owned by Adu-Boahene, rather than being used for the purchase of the cyber defense system software.
“In his capacity as Director of the National Signals Bureau, Mr. Adu-Boahene on January 30, 2020, signed a contract on behalf of the government of Ghana and the National Security on one hand and the other hand, an Israeli company named RLC Holdings Limited. The contract was for the purchase of a cyber defence system software at a price of $7 million.
“On February 6, 2020, he then transferred an initial amount of GH¢27,100,000 from the National Signals Bureau account at Fidelity Bank to a private BNC account at UMB. Official documentation on the transfer reveals that the amount was for the payment of cyber defence system software. He transferred the money to his private company,” Dr. Ayine stated.
He disclosed further that Adu-Boahene and his wife used the proceeds of the transfer to acquire many landed properties in both Ghana and abroad over the period the monies were transferred into their private account.
The lawmaker added that Mr Adu-Boahene and his wife are still in detention and that other suspects are also being pursued for prosecution to commence.
Meanwhile, the Attorney-General has said the wife of Adu-Boahene and others who have been arrested in connection with the issue will be released for the man to be detained whilst investigations and prosecution takes place.
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