Kwabena Adu-Boahene
A High Court in Accra last Thursday dashed the hopes of former Director-General of the National Signals Bureau, Kwabena Adu-Boahene to lay his hands on the National Security Coordinators’ operational accounts, as it dismissed the request.
Mr. Adu-Boahene and his wife, Angela Adjei-Boateng and two others, have been charged for allegedly stealing a total of GH¢49.1 million from the state.
He had filed an application for further disclosures, asking the court to order the prosecution to disclose all National Security Coordinators’ special operational accounts, spanning 33 years and five Presidents – from 1992 to date.
The request was heavily opposed by the Office of the Attorney General which asked the court to deny the request, calling it fishing and an attempt to delay the trial.
His lawyer, Samuel Atta Akyea, however, strongly argued that those documents establish a particular pattern and is very crucial to any defence the accused would mount.
Despite the strong opposition mounted by the Attorney General in court, and while the court was yet to deliver its ruling on the motion for further disclosure, the Office of the Attorney General released the National Security Coordinators’ operational accounts from 2017 to 2024 – covering the Akufo-Addo-led New Patriotic Party (NPP) government while leaving out the other accounts.
The court, presided over by Justice Eugene Nyante Nyadu, eventually delivered his ruling on July 3, 2025, reading just the concluding part and dismissed the request for further disclosure, stating that the accused did not provide justification for the request.
He said the full reasons would be made available on July 7, 2025, and stated that the trial will commence on July 18, 2025 where the prosecution will call its first witness.
Samuel Atta Akyea, who was clearly not impressed with the decision, described it as an aberration of justice and accused the Attorney General of being in an ambulance mood to secure the conviction of the accused persons.
He said he will be challenging the court’s ruling once he receives it, further indicating that the manner in which the trial is being conducted is bizarre.
Charges
Mr. Adu-Boahene and his wife, Angela Adjei-Boateng have been charged for allegedly stealing a total of GH¢49.1 million from the state.
The two, as well as Mildred Donkor and Advantage Solutions Limited, are facing a total of 11 counts of conspiracy to commit crime, stealing, using public office for profit, money laundering and causing financial loss to the state.
They have all denied any wrongdoing in the ongoing trial, which has attracted both national and international attention.
Disclosures
The Office of the Attorney General has so far filed a total of 85 separate documentations in a bid to secure a conviction against the accused persons.
But even before the prosecution calls its first witness, Mr. Adu-Boahene made a move at solidifying his defence by requesting the Attorney General to furnish him with all the operational accounts of National Security Coordinators.
The accounts he was seeking access to include the presidencies of Jerry John Rawlings (1992 to 2001), John Agyekum Kufuor (2001 to 2009), John Evans Atta Mills (2009 to 2012), John Mahama (2012 to 2013; 2013 to 2017; and current tenure) as well as Akufo-Addo (2017 to 2025).
BY Gibril Abdul Razak