The former governor of the Bank of Ghana (BoG), Dr. Ernest Addison, has been the target of a shocking accusation from retired Colonel Festus Aboagye after National Security agents recently searched his home.
Alexander Afenyo-Markin, the minority leader, denounced the controversial operation and said that personal items, including jewelry and cash belonging to Dr. Addison’s wife, were taken during the search.
On the other hand, Rtd. Col. Aboagye claims that the state’s intelligence revealed that Dr. Addison had placed electronic surveillance equipment in his house that allowed him to remotely monitor the Bank of Ghana’s operations.
In an interview with TV3, he stated that the search was carried out in response to this information and that the destruction of Dr. Addison’s CCTV camera was actually the removal of a surveillance “monitoring wire.”
“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.”