According to him, the CID is still investigating his alleged crime and has not proffered any charges against him.

“I was only in custody and let the records state that I have not been charged. I won’t go into the legality of it but I have not been charged with any offence. The police are still investigating the matter,” he added.

Mr. Anyidoho issued the disclaimer on Citi FM’s current affairs and news analysis programme, The Big Issue today, [Saturday], March 31, 2018.

[contextly_sidebar id=”6pnXcd2FHYhXht4TfDmjXb65c5k9UkME”]Mr. Anyidoho was picked up last Tuesday by the CID for allegedly making some claims on public radio which have been deemed as treasonable.

He had, in an interview on Accra-based Happy FM, indicated that President Akufo-Addo will be overthrown because of the ratification of the controversial defence cooperation agreement between Ghana and the US saying it could spark a “social revolution” in Ghana.

“There will be a civilian coup d’état. There will be a social revolution. We [NDC] are starting it on Wednesday. The movement is starting on Wednesday. Nana Addo will have sleepless nights. He will suffer diarrhoea. He said he wanted to be president, but we will make sure he will be fed up on the seat,’’ he added.

Anyidoho has since been widely condemned for the comments.

He subsequently spent two nights at the custody of the Bureau of National Investigations after which the CID granted him bail on Friday.

Speaking on the Big Issue, Koku Anyidoho blamed the media for misreporting the alleged charges proffered against him by the CID.

“[Whether] mainstream media, social media, let us be all measured in the things that we report. As I came out of detention yesterday, from Graphic, [there were headlines such as] Koku Anyidoho charged. Who charged Koku Anyidoho? It’s sad. Who charged who? Where is the charge?” he fumed.

My detention was an experience

Recounting his confinement at the BNI, he said he was not manhandled, and was not also put in handcuffs as being speculated.

Mr. Anyidoho also described it as an experience saying his respect for the security agencies had gone up because of the professional manner in which they dealt with the case.

“The state said I had to be detained and I was detained; and it allowed me as a politician to begin to accept and respect the police, BNI bigger than ever before.  Not that I ever disrespected them but now they have my greater respect.”

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According to him, Mr Appiah has been reassigned to the National Security Ministry.

Earlier reports suggested that Mr Appiah was sacked after a meeting held on Thursday.

But according to Mr. Kan-Dapaah, the move was part of a number of changes at the BNI and the National Security Ministry.

“We haven’t sacked the man. There is nothing like sacking, we didn’t talk about the sacking. Yes, he has been changed. There have been some changes at the Research department and also at the BNI and the National Security Ministry. We’ve moved people around.”

“He’s been moved from BNI to the Ministry of National Security,” Kan-Dapaah said in an interview with citinewsroom.com.

A statement signed by Information Minister, Mustapha Hamid said Mr Appiah will be replaced by the Director-General of Research at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, Rasheed Seidu Inusah.

The statement added that Peter Nyarko Opata, who served as deputy to Mr. Seidu Inusah has now taken over as the substantive head of the department at the Foreign Affairs Ministry.

This comes a day after former President John Mahama and a number of officials of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) were allowed access to Koku Anyidoho, who was in the custody of the BNI.

The group took pictures with Anyidoho which went viral on social media.

Mr Anyidoho was picked up by the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) on Tuesday for making some comments deemed treasonable and was in the BNI custody.

He was subsequently charged with treason and spent two nights in BNI custody.

Mr Anyidoho was granted bail earlier on Thursday.

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Mr Anyidoho was released by the Criminal Investigations Department (CID), the agency handling the case, in the presence of his father, Major General Henry Kwami Anyidoho and his lawyers.

CitiNewsroom’s Fred Djabanor reported that the conditions under which he was released are immediately not known.

Mr Anyidoho was picked up at the International Press centre on Tuesday for making comments deemed treasonable.

[contextly_sidebar id=”M9HDwW5wNrxXCbQxrDlM50s6kcncjVKC”]He was subsequently charged with treason.

Police have since been given permission to seize all electronic devices belonging to Mr Anyidoho by a High Court.

The court gave permission for all electronic gadgets including laptops, iPhone and iPads, believed to hold information related to the charge to be seized to aid the police investigations.

Mr Anyidoho landed in hot waters when, in an interview on Accra-based Happy FM, he called for the overthrow of President Nana Akufo-Addo over the ratification of the controversial defence cooperation agreement between Ghana and the US.

He said the overthrow will be in the form of a “civilian coup d’etat”.

The host of the show on which the comments were made, Kwame Affrifa, had also been invited by the police to aid in their investigations.

Support from Mahama

A former President, John Mahama, made recent comments on social media which suggest he did not approve of the way Mr. Anyidoho was taken into custody by the police.

On Wednesday, Mr Mahama criticised the Police for what he described as their ‘high-handed’ responses to “innocent” Ghanaians who massed up at the Police Headquarters on Tuesday night in solidarity with the arrested NDC national executive.

In a Facebook post, the former President chided Akufo-Addo government for the manner in which Mr Anyidoho was arrested and later charged with treason.

He, however, did not make mention of the comments made by Mr Anyidoho which have been widely condemned.

Mr Mahama later visited Mr Anyidoho at the BNI headquarters.

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This is according to a member of his legal team, Chris Ackumey, who told Citi News, there are indications to put Mr. Anyidoho before a magistrate court today, although the court is expected to refuse jurisdiction because of the level of the charge.

Koku Anyidoho has already spent two nights in the custody of the BNI after he was arrested at a press conference on Tuesday afternoon for making comments deemed treasonable.

Mr. Anyidoho in an interview in an interview on Accra-based Happy FM earlier this week said President Nana Akufo-Addo will be overthrown because of the ratification of the controversial defence cooperation agreement between Ghana and the US.

He said the overthrow will be in the form of a “civilian coup d’etat”.

“There will be a civilian coup d’état. There will be a social revolution. We [NDC] are starting it on Wednesday. The movement is starting on Wednesday. Nana Addo will have sleepless nights. He will suffer diarrhoea. He said he wanted to be President, but we will make sure he will be fed up on the seat,” he said.

Following his arrest, a search was conducted in his home supposedly for evidence of a planned coup.

He has since been charged with treason and has been denied bail.

Chris Ackumey believes the state is up to some mischief in the manner in which it is handling the case

“The magistrate court will decline jurisdiction because they cannot handle cases involving high treason. And they will use that as a basis to keep him for Easter but I pray it does not happen.”

1. Meanwhile, former President John Dramani Mahama and a former Chief of Staff, Julius Deborah, visited the Koku Anyidoho at the Headquarters of the Bureau for National Investigations (BNI) on Wednesday to solidarize with him.

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Venture Capital Trust Fund was established in 2004 to provide low-cost financing to small and medium enterprises.

According to the report, there were no documents to prove that about 53 individual loans were actually given out.

The report also says, while over GHc 1.3 million was given out in loans without any agreement with the borrowers, about GHc 915,000 was also granted in loans without any information on the location and registered offices of the borrowers.

These infractions are, however, being investigated, according to the Chief Executive Officer of the Trust Fund, Yaw Owusu Brempong, who was speaking on Monday before Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee.

“Going through the loans that were granted between the period of 2010 to August 2015, I have identified a number of irregularities; some including the no application letters, some no offer letters, some certificates of incorporation even being faked…”

“In total, about GHc 18.2 million had been granted as loans and because of these irregularities, payments have not been coming,” Mr. Owusu Brempong said.

The company also has GHc 30 million outstanding in interests accrued.

“Because of these irregularities, we are working with institutions like EOCO and the BNI and they have all the 205 loans that were granted. We are cooperating with them and the people who are culpable will be brought to book,” he noted.

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Yaw Donkor has been invited by the Police with regards to his alleged involvement in a $279.4 million contract award; a claim he has vehemently denied.

But Martin Amidu who claimed he had been grilled by Mr. Donkor’s staff in the past stated in his latest epistle that “it does not lie in your mouth to be whining when the police bent over backwards to only invite you to the police station.”

“You never gave any of us whose fundamental rights and freedoms you violated without compunction the right to counsel, which you have been lucky to have been given by the police. Karma has caught up with you more mercifully than you allowed us whom you abused with impunity. You should have been ashamed even to protest in the media for the kid gloves with which the police have respectfully treated you.”

“You never allowed me as the former Minister of the Interior with responsibility for Security and Intelligence any modicum of respect when you ordered my search and arrest on 6th December 2012. You are lucky the bloody instruction you taught returned to plague you the inventor very mildly and respectfully from the police. Your predicament is Karma for abuse of the Constitutional rights of fellow citizen as a public officer during your oppressive service in the Security and Intelligence Services of Ghana,” he added.

Below Martin Amidu’s full piece:

YAW DONKOR’S WHINGEING IS KARMA FOR ABUSE OF THE CONSTITUTION AS A PUBLIC OFFICER: BY MARTIN A. B.K. AMIDU

Reading about the whining of almighty Mr.Yaw Donkor, former Bureau of National Investigations Director and immediate past National Security Co-ordinator, being invited to the police station as a result of a petition accusing him of suspected offences reminded me of the past wisdom of poets and sages about reaping what we sow.

Yaw Donkor appears to be oblivious of one of William Shakespeare’s sayings that: “We but teach Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return To plague the inventor….” It immediately struck me that either Yaw Donkor is not well read and knowledgeable in the affairs of this world and therefore was unfit to occupy the positions Mr. Peter Nanfuri groomed him for, or he answers to the saying in my first Gregg Typing Manual in Tamale Commercial School where I learnt that: “A fool will be a fool whether he goes to school or not.”

This may explain why people claiming to be well schooled when oppressing other citizens forget that: “…this even-handed justice Commends the ingredients of our poisoned chalice to our own lips.”

How could somebody like Yaw Donkor who has violated the fundamental human rights and freedoms of several citizens under the 1992 Constitution, including my poor self as his former sector Minister and Attorney General, be whining upon just a simple invitation to clear himself of suspicion of crime?

Has Yaw Donkor who has held himself out as a Security and Intelligence operative soon forgotten that at the dawn of 6th December 2012 my residence was invaded by two operatives of the BNI who searched it brutally and invited me along to his office at the BNI Head office – taking along my laptop, pen drives and mobile phones upon the orders of then President John Dramani Mahama, given to the National Security Co-ordinator and him as the Director of the Bureau of National Investigation?

Has he so soon forgotten that my late very sick mother who was then living with me attending hospital went through the ordeal with the rest of the family? I was detained in the reception of the BNI waiting for Yaw Donkor, the Director whom I eventually never saw, for over four hours and later dropped by car in front of my house without anybody telling me why my residence was searched and why I was arrested. I do not to date know what happened when my laptop, pen drives and phones were taken into the custody of Yaw Donkor’s BNI.

I was simply told that Almighty Yaw Donkor, the Director was not likely to return soon and that the National Security Co-ordinator had instructed that I be returned to my residence. I was not shown any search warrant or arrest warrant but I followed their instructions least they had instructions to shoot me and invoke the lie that I had resisted arrest. Hon. John Ndebugri, then PNDC Secretary for Northern Region, appointed me the Chairman of the Cotton Development Board Committee of Enquiry with Mr. Edward Karbo (now Lawra-Na) and one Agyeman (who later became a professor in Cape Coast University) as members in February 1982.

Yaw Donkor was not even then an operative of the PNDC. When I was appointed PNDC Deputy Secretary for Upper Region in February 1983 Pious Awelinga, who succeeded Yaw Donkor at the BNI, his friend Joshua and others whom I had taught in Bawku Secondary School had just completed secondary school and were regular guests to our Bolgatanga Government residency. Yaw Donkor’s former boss, Mr. Peter Nanfuri (who groomed him in the Special Branch to the BNI) and I competed the Ghana School of Law and were called to the Bar the same day in the late 1970s.

Before Yaw Donkor instructed my unlawful search and arrest, I had served the PNDC and the NDC for almost 21 years as a Minister of State by then, and been an ex-officio Member of Parliament in addition to having been the Vice Presidential Candidate who lost the election in the second round to the NPP in 2000 with Prof. Mills. But a tradition and a Government that I had helped in founding, treated me, through the instrumentality of Yaw Donkor, as though I had no constitutional rights.

Most of the former Ministers and current Members of Parliament speaking loudly today for their exclusion from law enforcement were Members of Parliament and Ministers of State in that Government, but became deaf and dumb when the now disgraced John Mahama, Yaw Donkor and the then National Security Co-ordinator unlawfully searched and arrested me as though the 1992 Constitution had ceased to exist then.

As the law of Karma will have it, today they are whining and protesting when the bloody instructions they taught has returned to plague them, the inventors, and this even handed justice commends the ingredients of their poisoned chalice to their own lips. Yaw Donkor, do you remember how you unlawfully arrested the illiterate Amina Mohammed and persecuted her without just cause?

Do you remember what a terror you were who arrogated to yourself the audacity to write and insult my acting Director of Public Prosecution, Cynthia Lamptey? Do you not remember the several workers at the National Security Council Secretariat you unlawfully locked out of office without a hearing when you became National Security Coordinator and who have to date not been formally sworn out of office? Do you remember the gentleman whom you locked out of office without swearing him out simply because he was helping your predecessor to lawfully set up Government Communications Headquarters and Cybersecurity departments that could service the Council directly?

As Shakespeare again said: “But in these cases We still have judgment here;” Yaw Donkor, it does not lie in your mouth to be whining when the police bent over backwards to only invite you to the police station. You never gave any of us whose fundamental rights and freedoms you violated without compunction the right to counsel, which you have been lucky to have been given by the police.

Karma has caught up with you more mercifully than you allowed us whom you abused with impunity. You should have been ashamed even to protest in the media for the kid gloves with which the police have respectfully treated you.

You never allowed me as the former Minister of the Interior with responsibility for Security and Intelligence any modicum of respect when you ordered my search and arrest on 6th December 2012. You are lucky the bloody instruction you taught returned to plague you the inventor very mildly and respectfully from the police. Your predicament is Karma for abuse of the Constitutional rights of fellow citizen as a public officer during your oppressive service in the Security and Intelligence Services of Ghana.

I have no tears for your irk. Stop whining for the respectful treatment from the police when you refused to grant to your fellow citizens similar respect when you had the opportunity to serve our motherland Ghana. Yaw! “But in these cases We still have judgment here;” – Karma!

Martin A. B. K. Amidu

(Citizens Vigilance for Justice) 1 st August 2017

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The suspects are said to have hijacked the country’s eastern frontiers posing as state security personnel and terrorizing unsuspecting travellers.  

[contextly_sidebar id=”FJM79sEDhWZP2v1e7nAgrDh9xqMdwGKg”]The suspects, including two women, were rounded up on Monday dawn in an operation led by the Deputy Regional Commander ACP Doku.

“We’ve picked up intelligence that, some suspected criminals have invaded the area, so we sent a team led my deputy and supported by the crime officer to swoop the place, where we arrested 13 people including two women, 11 men, age ranging from 19 to 50”.

Briefing the media on Tuesday, the Regional Police Commander, ACP Nana Asomah Hinneh said sharp devices such as knives, scissors were found on the suspects.

“Most of them were found in the ghettos with some exhibits. Some of the others were picked up at an area known as ‘low cost’, they pose as Immigration, BNI, Police, CID to harass unsuspecting travellers especially those from Kumasi who are going to Togo” he stated.

The suspects are to be further screened and, if culpable, prosecuted.

The commander hinted of similar operations to be conducted in other parts of the region to flush out criminal elements and make the region safe haven for citizens to carry out daily activities.

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A BNI and National Security report, quoted by the Energy Minister, Boakye Agyarko, exonerated the current head of BOST of any wrongdoing in the recent contaminated fuel saga.

[contextly_sidebar id=”F3DcpwfGCdQKqwNcET86qRkAlmY0o6Ys”]The Energy Minister stated at a press conference that “on the basis of previous practice, there was no wrongdoing at BOST on the sale of the 5 million litres of contaminated products.”

However, Mr. Casely-Hayford who had earlier expressed his belief that problems with contaminated fuel at BOST might have begun when the company was first set up, thinks a comprehensive investigation would help clear any lingering doubts about the activities of the company over the years.

“Why stop at the current MD. What about the previous one and the ones before? What about the whole BOST institution and the way it’s carrying on. If they [BNI] have taken the initiative and are doing an investigation, why not go all the way back?” he said on Citi FM‘s news analysis programme, The Big Issue on Saturday.

According to Casely-Hayford who is also a leading member of pressure group Occupy Ghana, the best way to deal with the issue at BOST is to set up an independent Commission to investigate the matter.

He added that the BNI could serve as a ‘contributory’ unit for the Commission but should not have the final say on the investigations.

“As usual in Ghana, nobody knows what the truth is. Whichever side you believe in depends on the political affiliation you want to push. We have a problem and the best way when you have a situation like we do now is to get an independent Commission that is non-partisan and has no linkages with the BOST executives and let them make the decision and do the investigation and let’s come out with a report that clears things once and for all.

“The BNI, unfortunately, should be part of the contributory units for the Commission in order for them to do their work. The [BNI] shouldn’t make the final decision….The BNI should send their confidential report to the Energy Ministry and let them decide what to do with it but not put it in the public domain and come to conclusions as to whether someone is guilty or innocent.”

The BNI report was criticised by several observer groups including policy think tank IMANI Africa and anti-corruption group Occupy Ghana, who described it as deficient.

Think-tank, CDD have also called for fresh, external investigations into the issue

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According to IMANI, the report by the Bureau of National Investigations (BNI) clearing BOST of any wrongdoing as announced by the Minister of Energy, is not only baffling but “juvenile” and “delinquent.”

[contextly_sidebar id=”0Iw0CNHhZDV6r8C7E82q160h2kmK0CzY”]“This whole mockery of governance can be made clean again by a singular act of the President for fresh inquiry into the activities of BOST in the last 8 years, and all persons liable for fuel fraud to be held accountable. But we want immediate answers to the present fraud. It is simply early in the day for a new government with boundless optimism,” a statement signed by President of IMANI Ghana, Franklin Cudjoe stated.

BOST had been widely criticized for selling 5 million litres of contaminated fuel to two unlicensed companies, Movepiina and Zup Oil, which were allegedly set up few days before the sale making Ghana lose about GHc 7 million in revenue.

The Energy Ministry subsequently set an investigative committee to look into the mater.

However, the Minister, Boakye Agyarko, on Tuesday cleared BOST and its Managing Director, Alfred Obeng Boateng of any wrongdoing citing a BNI and National Security report.

“The investigations so far carried out by the state security agencies and the NPA show that on the basis of previous practice, there was no wrongdoing at BOST on the sale of the 5 million liters of contaminated products,” he added.

But IMANI in its statement argued that, clearing BOST of any wrongdoing is a “mockery of governance”  and a “bastardization of our institutions by politicians.”

“This whole saga is the clearest example yet of bastardisation of our institutions by politicians. How a supposedly competent committee set up by the energy ministry got railroaded and trumped over by the  BNI baffles all observers of our democracy. At worse, were the BNI justified to intervene, their conclusions are at best juvenile and delinquent,” he added.

Gov’t, BNI covering up contaminated fuel saga – Minority 

The Minority had accused the BNI of covering up the alleged rot at BOST over the sale of the 5 million litres of contaminated fuel.

Addressing the press in Parliament on Tuesday, the Minority Leader, Haruna Iddrisu, indicated that, they will stop at nothing to expose the alleged rot at BOST.

“The mere selling of contaminated oil matter to motorists, the mere admission of the regulator, the NPA to the extent that they were unaware and they had not licensed a particular entity also raises major issues as to which entity, registered or not registered that the state should be dealing with. The BNI would have to come public to share with us what they have investigated and what their findings are and not just a mere statement to the effect that the Minister should dissolve his committee,” Haruna Iddrisu added.

Below is IMANI’s full statement:

IMANI’s Statement of Support for Fresh Enquiry into the Fuel Fraud Saga

Sadly, there are inconsistencies in the accounts of the energy ministry, the National Petroleum Authority and the state owned bulk oil storage company, BOST, over the fuel fraud saga.  The attached open letter addressed to the President and also sent to me anonymously, gives some rather damning reasons for chain of errors.

What is clear from the varied accounts we have so far is that;

1. The regulator, the NPA, was kept in the dark about the shady deal until very very late in the day so its account for the most part, unfortunately does not count.
2. Close to 300,000 litres of deliberately contaminated fuel had been released onto the market and all relevant authorities in the trade are aware of it.
3. That the companies involved have no licenses and mandate to operate in the trade, illegal trade actually.
4. This whole saga is the clearest example yet of bastardisation of our institutions by politicians. How a supposedly competent committee set up by the energy ministry got railroaded and trumped over by the BNI baffles all observers of our democracy. At worse, were the BNI justified to intervene, their conclusions are at best juvenile and delinquent.
5. This whole mockery of governance can be made clean again by a singular act of the President- fresh inquiry into the activities of BOST in the last 8 years and all persons liable for fuel fraud be held accountable. But we want immediate answers to the present fraud. It is simply early in the day for a new government with boundless optimism.

Respectfully yours,

Franklin Cudjoe

Founding President & CEO, IMANI

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Reports are emerging that the BNI has taken over the probe of the matter from the committee set by the Energy Ministry, and also exonerated the embattled Managing Director of BOST, Alfred Obeng Boateng of any wrongdoing.

[contextly_sidebar id=”BZpbDlfSX9F3IMridloe0Mng38UcCVeQ”]Addressing the press in Parliament today [Tuesday], the Minority Leader, Haruna Iddrisu, indicated that, they will stop at nothing to expose the alleged rot at BOST.

“There is a very bizarre and uncharacteristic developments in our country today that we are being told that the BNI is acting in a manner that we don’t only smell, but we can sense a cover up in respect of the matter of the selling of contaminated oil by BOST which matter bothers on fraud, corruption and abuse of office. We are aware that the Ministry of Energy has set up a committee to investigate the matter.”

The Minority Leader said information they have picked up suggest that the “the BNI is asking for dissolution of that committee.”

According to him, if such information was true, “that can only be a gargantuan cover up on a matter which is fraudulent and we believe that this action of the BNI can only be sowing the seed of corruption in our country and also allowing and preventing sunshine on matters that are of public interest.”

“The mere selling of contaminated oil matter to motorists, the mere admission of the regulator, the NPA to the extent that they were unaware and they had not licensed a particular entity also raises major issues as to which entity, registered or not registered that the state should be dealing with. The BNI would have to come public to share with us what they have investigated and what their findings are and not just a mere statement to the effect that the Minister should dissolve his committee,” he added.

Haruna Iddrisu further called on the president to stop such cover ups if he  really wants to fight corruption as he had promised during the electioneering.

“We are already aware of an internal turf between the ministry and other players within government. This recent development, we find unacceptable and therefore if the president means well in fighting corruption, he should not be seen supporting any cover up and must allow the ministerial committee to proceed henceforth with full investigation of the matter and report publicly or they may as well say that they are not interested in any other matter of public interest,” Haruna Iddrisu added.

Background

BOST had been in the news for selling 5 million litres of contaminated fuel to two unlicensed companies, Movepiina and Zup Oil, which were allegedly set up few days before the sale making Ghana lose about GHc 7 million in revenue.

The NPA after complaining that it had not licensed the two firms, threatened to take legal action against the companies while investigations continue into the matter.

Some documents sighted by Citi News revealed that such cases had occurred at BOST in the past since about 38 unlicensed companies benefited from such deal between 2015 and 2016.

The Ministry of Energy subsequently set up an eight-member committee to investigate the issue. The Minority and Majority Members of Parliament also waded into the controversy taking divergent positions.

Whereas the Minority called for the appointment termination of the current Managing Director of BOST, Alfred Obeng Boateng, the Majority demanded a full scale investigation into the matter beginning from the era of the former BOST boss, Kingsley Kwame Awuah-Darko.

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