The Vice President of IMANI Africa Bright Simons reacted to the testimony of the Director of Finance of the National Signals Bureau Edith Ruby Opokua Adumuah in the Adu Boahene’s GH¢49 million case.
Bright Simons asserted that the NSB finance director’s testimony affirms his position that the system is broken and Naked.
In the Edith Ruby Opokua Adumuah witness statement, she revealed that Adu-Boahene instructed her to write cheques and later handed them over to the signatories to the accounts.
According to her, the first cheque issued on the GH¢49 million in contention was on February 6, 2022, and was on the instruction of Adu-Boahene.
She revealed she did not have the clearance to verify documentation and confirm the reasons why certain payments were made.
She added that Adu-Boahene instructed her to write the cheque for GH¢27.1 million with “BNC Operations” as the payee but later got to know that it was the account for Adu-Boahene and his wife (A2), which they kept at the UMB.
“On February 6, 2020, A1 instructed me to write a cheque for twenty-seven million, one hundred thousand Ghana cedis (GH¢27,100,000.00) with ‘BNC Operations’ as the payee. After writing the cheque, I handed it over to A1 for the necessary signatures. My Lord, when A1 directed me to write the cheque with ‘BNC Operations’ as the payee, I understood the description to refer to an existing operational bank account belonging to the bureau, which I was not privy to due to my level of clearance.
Edith Ruby Opokua Adumuah’s witness statement read, “I later found out, when I was invited for questioning concerning this case, that that particular cheque was deposited into an account named ‘BNC Communications Bureau-Operations’ at UMB Bank. I did not know this at the time I wrote the cheque for A1. I also found out from EOCO investigators that that bank account belonged to a private company called ‘BNC Communication Bureau Limited,’ which is owned and controlled by A1 and A2”.
“Also, on March 18, 2020, A1 instructed me to write a cheque for one million Ghana cedis (GH¢1,000,000.00) to be drawn on BNC’s ‘The Director BNC’ account at Fidelity Bank. Then, on March 30, 2020, I wrote another cheque for twenty-one million Ghana cedis (GH¢21,000,000.00), also to be drawn on the BNC’s ‘The Director BNC’ account at Fidelity Bank.
I wrote this third cheque, too, on the instructions of A1. I wrote the second and third cheques also with ‘BNC Operations’ as the payee. After A1 and the late JOSHUA KYEREMEH had signed, A1 then gave me an account number and directed me to deposit the two cheques into the ‘BNC Operations’ bank account at UMB Bank”.
She added, “I complied with A1’s directive, believing that the ‘BNC Operations’ bank account was an additional BNC operational account which I did not have the security clearance to know. I can identify the copies of cheque numbered 020086 for GH¢27,100,000.00, cheque numbered 020089 for GH¢1,000,000.00, and cheque numbered 020094 for GH¢21,000,000.00 to the honourable court”.
Bright Simons reacting to the witness statement wrote on X, “ The testimony of the Director of Finance of the National Signals Bureau, one of the 3 key agencies in Ghana’s national security complex, affirms my position that the system is totally BROKEN.
She is the Head of Finance but she doesn’t have the security clearance to verify documentation and confirm the reasons why certain payments are made. Unbelievable! You couldn’t make it up if you tried!
Essentially, zero financial and operational integrity controls. The fraud she describes at the heart of the national security system itself should tell Ghanaians that the country is seriously NAKED. This level of crass fraud in the most sophisticated agency of a country’s national security system? Whoa!”, he stated.
Kwabena Adu Boahene, his wife Angela Adjei-Boateng and one other have been charged by the state for stealing, defrauding by false pretences, money laundering, and conspiracy to commit a crime.
According to the charge sheet Kwabena Adu Boahene, his wife stole state funds to the tune of GHc 49 million.
The Attorney General, Dr Dominic Ayine, filed 11 charges against Kwabena Adu-Boahene and three others at the High Court in Accra.
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1. The testimony of the Director of Finance of the National Signals Bureau, one of the 3 key agencies in Ghana’s national security complex, affirms my position that the system is totally BROKEN.
2. She is the Head of Finance but she doesn’t have the security clearance to verify… pic.twitter.com/tmIyPbUDbT
— Bright Simons (@BBSimons) June 5, 2025
