Col Festus Aboagye claims ex-BoG Governor spied on Central Bank, defends National Security search

Retired Colonel Festus Aboagye has made a striking allegation against former Bank of Ghana (BoG) Governor Dr. Ernest Addison, claiming that intelligence gathered by the state suggested he had installed electronic surveillance devices in his residence, linking them to the BoG for remote monitoring.

Speaking on TV3’s The Key Points show on Saturday, March 22,  Rtd. Col. Aboagye explained that National Security operatives acted based on this intelligence when they searched Dr. Addison’s home.

He asserted that the destruction of the former Governor’s CCTV camera was, in reality, 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 I have checked—that former Governor Addison, when I got social information and checked from a source within National Security, certain individuals within National Security, had wired his place with what we call backdoor electronic devices,” he revealed.

The retired military officer further claimed that multiple sources confirmed this intelligence, stating, “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.”

He stressed that such actions would constitute unauthorized surveillance, stating, “The state has not authorized anybody in the form of a former BoG Governor 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 search of Dr. Addison’s residence has sparked controversy, with Minority Leader Alexander Afenyo-Markin condemning the operation and alleging that valuables, including jewelry and money belonging to Dr. Addison’s wife, were stolen during the search.

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However, Rtd. Col. Aboagye believes the situation is being politicized.

“I think the sense I get is that these events are being politicized. Instead of framing the event in a national security context, parties are being political,” he remarked.

Dismissing claims that the search was a forceful operation, he clarified, “It’s the description of these events as raids that is the problem. A raid is a sudden use of force to attack a place; that is what is called a raid. That is not what we are seeing here. What we are seeing is the National Security, based on intelligence, entering a property to accrue something with a bench warrant.”

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