Retired Colonel Festus Aboagye has made a startling claim against former Bank of Ghana (BoG) Governor, Dr. Ernest Addison, following a recent search of his residence by National Security operatives.
The operation, which has sparked controversy, was condemned by Minority Leader Alexander Afenyo-Markin, who alleged that personal belongings, including jewellery and money belonging to Dr. Addison’s wife, were stolen during the search.
However, Rtd. Col. Aboagye alleges that intelligence gathered by the state suggested Dr. Addison had installed electronic surveillance devices in his home, which were connected to the Bank of Ghana, enabling him to monitor its activities remotely.
Speaking in an interview with TV3, he claimed that the search was conducted based on this intelligence, adding that the destruction of Dr. Addison’s CCTV camera was actually the removal of a “monitoring wire” used for surveillance.
What is coming out, unless contested, is that there was intelligence, I’m speaking on what it is that I have checked, that former Governor Addison when I got social information, checked from a source within National Security, certain individuals within the National Security, that he has wired his place with what we call back door electronic devices.
He stressed, “Since then I have received multiple versions of it. He had devices in his house, wired to the Bank of Ghana, which enabled him to monitor what was going on. Monitoring is a very diplomatic word, this is spying, this is surveillance.
“And the state has not authorised anybody in the form of a former BoG to mount surveillance on the premises of BoG. The naked wireless was wired into devices. As far as I’m concerned, that was the objective of that search.”
The claims have yet to be officially addressed by Dr. Addison or his legal representatives.
