Gbeho thwarts car theft

The Dispatch carries that last Wednesday, ex-Foreign Affairs Minister and Member of Parliament for Anlo, Hon. Victor James Gbeho, was nearly robbed of his VW Passat car.

Narrating the incident to paper, Hon. Gbeho said whilst driving home from Parliament on Wednesday, he observed two men in a car trailing him.

They followed him right to his gate at the Airport Residential Area. When he enquired about their mission, they told him they were officials from the Bureau of National Investigations (BNI) sent to repossess the car.

Hon Gbeho then told them he was not going to comply since the car is his legal property, duly acquired and paid for. According to him, when they persisted, he phoned the National Security Adviser, Lieutenant General Joshua Hamidu (rtd), and enquired whether he was aware of any directive to dispossess him of his car.

Gen Hamidu denied knowledge of the said directive and in turn asked him to tell the two men to leave and report back to whoever sent them, who should be asked to call the National Security Adviser.

Hon Gbeho advised them accordingly and also showed them a copy of a letter dated April 3, 2001 from the Chief of Staff, Mr Jake Obetsebi-Lamptey as evidence of full payment for the car, after which they left.

Asked whether he suspected any foul play, he answered in the affirmative, and attributed it to certain remarks he made the previous day on an Accra private radio station.

He said while answering a question on the assessment of the current political situation in the country, he advised that the security services must be kept in check if excesses and unrests are to be avoided.