The Honorary Vice President of IMANI-Africa Bright Simons has stated the explanation given by the former National Signals Bureau (NSB) Director-General Kwabena Adu-Boahene in his memo for allegedly misappropriating GH¢49million is not reasonable.
According to him, the explanations offered by the former security chief were untenable and called it a massive breach of Ghana’s national security system which must not be allowed at all.
The former National Signals Bureau boss days ago through his legal team dropped a shocking breakdown of the ¢ 49 million he has been accused of stealing.
He alleged that GHC5.1 million of the GHC 49 million he is alleged to have stolen was used to buy 3 vehicles for President John Mahama.
According to his letter, he claimed 5,135,000 cedis was used to buy a 2024 Nissan Patrol Platinum, 2024 Nissan Patrol Titanium and 2022 Land Cruiser GXR.
He further claimed the money was paid to a special aide to President Mahama.
Additionally, Kwabena Adu-Boahene claimed that GH¢960,000 of the GHC 49 million of alleged stolen funds were used to pay members of Parliament.
He further added that the GH¢960,000 was used to pay members of Parliament’s Defence and Interior Committee to accelerate the passage of the National Signals Bureau Act (2020).
The embattled former Director of the National Signals Bureau (NSB) has fingered an opposition political party for receiving GHS 8.3 million of alleged money he is accused of stealing.
According to Adu Boahene’s letter, an opposition party received GHS 8.3 million to support election results collation.
Speaking on JOY NEWS NewsFile, Bright Simon stated Adu Boahene’s action was “a massive breach of our national security system, and we must not allow it at all.”
“If it is necessary to spy on people because some of them are terrorists, some are criminals etc and we decided to buy it and we allocated $ 7 million, you cannot allocate one point something million dollars to the company, refuse to pay the rest, and so therefore the country is denied the benefit of the transaction and for over four years, claims to have diverted the money for other purposes without any trail. Cannot happen in our financial laws, and it is not even a reasonable explanation to give.”
“If that was the case, as in an authorised reassignment of the budget, the person who will do it is the Minister of Finance, acting through the President, quietly in the National Security Councils but will have the records so the Attorney General of the Republic, who has all of these and is the ear of the president, will not be blind to these matters.”
He added, “If they are authorised ops, notwithstanding the fact that they are covert or they are black ops, using the idiom in the United States, they will still be recorded and they will still be matters that are subject to the jurisdiction of the national security council.”
“The national security itself knows that corruption is a critical problem and that they will set up their own systems appropriately to manage this. Therefore, if there was a sense that corruption was undermining national security itself.”
Bright Simons also described the former National Signals Bureau (NSB) Director-General Kwabena Adu-Boahene’s memo as a smokescreen to intimidate the state into dropping charges against him.
Bright Simons asserted that the prosecution of Kwabena Adu-Boahene must continue to uncover the underground operations that may have ensued under the disguise of national security.
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