Security not political football – Boakye Gyan

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• PRINCE KWASI ADADE (OFIE P33) 8 years ago

  PROF. ADEI FIRES SALVOS!!!!! COURTESY: CLASSFMONLINE.COM ----- The various corruption allegations surfacing are proof that the Mahama administration was far more corrupt than previously thought, former Rector of the Ghana Ins ...
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  PROF. ADEI FIRES SALVOS!!!!! COURTESY: CLASSFMONLINE.COM ----- The various corruption allegations surfacing are proof that the Mahama administration was far more corrupt than previously thought, former Rector of the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA), Prof Stephen Adei has said at a Business Roundtable organised by Yamson and Associates in Accra on Wednesday, 31 May. “Do you know why many people want to be politicians? It’s because that is the quickest way to get rich in this country,” Prof Adei said, adding: “We are yet to know the facts because we are not the investigators but the types of things that are being revealed about the amount of corruption [are mind-boggling].” National Communication Authority graft So far three appointees of former President John Mahama are being investigated by the Bureau of National Investigations (BNI) for allegedly diverting some $4million belonging to the National Communications Authority (NCA). The three appointees, according to Information Minister Mustapha Hamid, conspired with a private citizen to commit the act. The former Mahama appointees being investigated, as named by Mr Hamid in an interview with Joy FM’s Kojo Yankson on Wednesday, 24 May, include Mr Eugene Baffoe-Bonney, former Board Chairman of the NCA; Mr William Tevie, former Chief Executive Officer of the NCA; and Alhaji Osman, former Deputy National Security Coordinator. Their conspirator, according to Mr Hamid is one George Oppong. Mr Hamid said they engaged in the graft in connection with a contract between the Mahama administration and an Israeli company, NSO Group Technology Limited, in which the latter was to supply eavesdropping gadgets worth $6 million. The equipment were meant to help the government of Ghana monitor the calls of suspected terrorists. In the course of the transaction, Mr Hamid said a local agent – Infraloks Development Limited – charged $2million as facilitation fee, bringing the total amount to $8million. According to Mr Hamid, National Security, which did not have the funds for the equipment, allowed the NCA, which supervises the use of such equipment, to fund the project. The NCA top officials, he revealed, withdrew $4 million from the NCA’s kitty but gave only $1million to the Israeli firm. The surplus, according to Mr Hamid, was deposited into the personal accounts of Mr George Oppong, who fronted as an agent of Infraloks Development Ltd. He said Alhaji Osman orchestrated the entire deal. According to Mr Hamid, demands by the Israeli firm to be paid the $5 million balance after the Mahama administration lost power in the December 2016 elections prompted the new Akufo-Addo government to probe the transaction after which the graft was detected. Mr Hamid said: “They took $4 million from NCA accounts and paid $1 million to the Israeli company and then deposited $3 million in the accounts of the local agent, one Mr George Oppong, and proceeded to share the $3million among themselves.”

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• Etse 8 years ago

  That makes some sense to me; empowerment of the security service - what are the things they require for this empowerment? An MP is murdered in his house, policemen are killed in operation, an army officer is lynched for askin ...
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  That makes some sense to me; empowerment of the security service - what are the things they require for this empowerment? An MP is murdered in his house, policemen are killed in operation, an army officer is lynched for asking for a direction, a civilian is mistakenly taken for an armed rubber and lynched - what king of stupid things are these.
  
  Politicians, instead of state institutions, are in control and that is our woe. We need to put aside dirty partisan politics and grow our state institutions for they are there always.
  
  The Asantehene once said, "aban beba, aban beko, Ghana ne Asanteman te ho daa" literary translated, "political parties will change all the time but Ghana and Asante kingdom will be there forever". It shall be better for citizens to put aside partisan politics.

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• Kade 8 years ago

  Since those arrested do not belong to the Invincible Forces of Delta Forces, they will surely face the full rigors of the law. Mark it.

  Since those arrested do not belong to the Invincible Forces of Delta Forces, they will surely face the full rigors of the law. Mark it.

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• GHANA FORAY 8 years ago

  AKUFO ADDO IS USELESS.

  AKUFO ADDO IS USELESS.

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• Philip 8 years ago

  I agree. He appointed Kan Dapaah as national security minister and he's equally useless.

  I agree. He appointed Kan Dapaah as national security minister and he's equally useless.

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• Kutsii 8 years ago

  Is it bcos President Akufo Addo is toothless the reason for calling him useless? Please respect the old crook and don't blame him too much. He is now old and weak , so he's afraid of the monsters he created himself.
  
  What ...
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  Is it bcos President Akufo Addo is toothless the reason for calling him useless? Please respect the old crook and don't blame him too much. He is now old and weak , so he's afraid of the monsters he created himself.
  
  What has Akufo Addo and his NPP government achieved at all since Jan 2017 for which Ghanaians should suffer this insecurity.

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• dunaa 8 years ago

  I could not disagree more with Boakye Djan. Security is "political". Security should be "partisan", but it is definitely "political". Human beings for societies, and part of the reason for this formation is "to provide for t ...
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  I could not disagree more with Boakye Djan. Security is "political". Security should be "partisan", but it is definitely "political". Human beings for societies, and part of the reason for this formation is "to provide for the collective good", and to protect each other. When you have a society, where societal norms are hopelessly corrupted, then you have a huge problem. Combine that with an illiterate and ignorant population, and you get a dangerously combustible mix. In addition to this soldier being murdered, we hear about mobs lynching a poor old woman in the Upper East area! We have ignorant "pastors" actually telling people that other members of families are "witches". All these things are interrelated! It is called the "ripple effect". I can state that I have enough of vigilantism in me, so that is my grandmother is murdered by a mob because a pastor had declared her a "witch", that pastor will die at my hands. Security is political. It is at the very core of our existence as a society. When you stage a coup d'etat, as Boakye Djan did a couple of decades ago, you shake the existing security to its very foundation. The Police is hopelessly unprofessional, and it depends on the prevailing political winds. A mob invades a courtroom in the Ashanti Region. Another mob vandalises the ECG office in Somanya. Yet another mob lunches an old woman in Upper East. Boakye Djan may not want to take responsibility for these societal dislocations. Those of you reading this commentary, who have analytical brains, should ponder the issue.

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• Chris 8 years ago

  Major Rtd Boakye Djan has had his views on the state of ghana security.
  I mark him 100% because he excluded politics in his interview and talked about empowerment.
  No need to politicise this Canker which is plaguing our b ...
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  Major Rtd Boakye Djan has had his views on the state of ghana security.
  I mark him 100% because he excluded politics in his interview and talked about empowerment.
  No need to politicise this Canker which is plaguing our beloved nation Ghana.

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