Attorney General, Dominic Ayine (L) and Kwabena Adu-Boahene
The former Director-General of the National Signals Bureau, Kwabena Adu-Boahene, who is currently in the custody of EOCO, has penned down a note detailing what the monies he and his wife are accused of stealing were used for.
Kwabena Adu-Boahene and his wife are at the center of a corruption scandal for allegedly diverting monies meant to strengthen Ghana’s cybersecurity system into their private accounts.
They are facing 11 charges including stealing and causing financial loss to the State.
The charges were made public by the Attorney General on Wednesday, April 30, 2025 during a press conference.
In a letter written from the Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO) custody, Adu-Boahene refutes the claims by the Attorney General, Dominic Ayine.
“I give you my highest assurances that Angela [wife] and I would never steal public funds, as is being deliberately and wickedly portrayed by the Attorney-General. In any case, how does one steal public funds in the manner being described by the Attorney-General without being flagged by the Auditor-General?
“Further, I give you my highest assurances that Angela [wife] and I would never take what does not belong to us, even if privately arranged. We are full of content with the modest blessings God has given us,” he wrote.
Establishing the facts pertaining to what the money in question—49 million cedis—was spent on, Adu-Boahene revealed part of it was used to fund the 2020 and 2024 elections.
He mentioned a whopping 500000 dollars was used to purchase a “communications equipment” for an opposition party in September, 2024.
He also quoted GHC 7,285,000 was used for what he referred to as “elections special operations” for the 2020 general elections which covered the cost of logistics and payment of allowances.
Moreover, GHC 6,764,000 was paid for logistics and allowances for the 2024 December elections.
These monies were aimed to ensure the “stability of the nation and for peaceful polling”, Adu-Boahene stressed in his letter.
He further accused the EOCO boss, Raymond Archer, of deliberately distorting the facts and warned that this “could embarrass the government and national security”.
He added that he has intentionally withheld classified information from his interrogators, hence advised the National Security Coordinator, to whom the letter was written, to intervene to avert the possible humiliation that the State may face “before it becomes too late”.
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