The National Security says the British fugitive arrested by the Bureau of National Investigations (BNI) on drug-related offences, had in his possession a Ghanaian passport originally issued to Mr. Adams Obeng, a student of Takoradi Polytechnic.<\/p>\n
A letter from the National Security Council Secretariat yesterday [Wednesday] signed by Col. E.W.K. Nibo (Rtd.), and addressed to The Ghanaian Times, said the passport was issued on November 13, 2009, and that meant the accused, David McDermott, was holding a falsified document and \u201cthis has engendered another investigation altogether.\u201d<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”JAfNajeFwMQXpL8GFw2C6v1P0PKcNbe0″]The letter also said that the passport is blank and has not been used for any travels in or out of Ghana.<\/p>\n
This contradicts sharply with what the prosecutor in the case told the Accra Circuit Court \u2018One\u2019 on Monday when the accused was arraigned.<\/p>\n
The Prosecutor, DSP A.A. Annor, had told the court that until his arrest last Friday, David McDermott had been operating a gold mining company in the Eastern Region and possessed a Ghanaian travelling passport bearing the name David Smith which he used to travel in and outside Ghana during the past three years.<\/p>\n
DSP Annor told the court, presided over by Mr. Aboagye Tandoh, that McDermott was said to have transacted prohibited business between 2013 and 2016 in Ghana and in the UK.<\/p>\n
However, the letter by the National Security said \u201cthe story is factually incorrect and no such information was given to the press at any point in time.<\/p>\n
After the suspect was arrested by the BNI, his residence was searched and a Ghanaian passport bearing his name and picture was found. Checks later revealed that, that particular passport was issued to Adams Obeng, a student of Takoradi Polytechnic at the time, on 13th<\/sup> November 2009.This means that McDermott is holding a falsified document and this has engendered another investigations \u00a0altogether.<\/p>\n \u201cAdditionally, the passport is blank and has not been used for any travels in or out of Ghana as the story purports,\u201d the letter added.<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n Source: Ghanaian Times<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The National Security says the British fugitive arrested by the Bureau of National Investigations (BNI) on drug-related offences, had in his possession a Ghanaian passport originally issued to Mr. Adams Obeng, a student of Takoradi Polytechnic. A letter from the National Security Council Secretariat yesterday [Wednesday] signed by Col. E.W.K. Nibo (Rtd.), and addressed to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-slider-1","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=199638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199638\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=199638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=199638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=199638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}