AG’s Selective Disclosure: AG Reveals National Security Bank Records from Akufo-Addo Era, Hesitates on Mahama-Era Request
The Attorney-General and Minister for Justice, Dr. Dominic Ayine, has tendered in court sensitive bank statements covering operational accounts of the National Security Secretariat under former President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo. The documents were submitted as part of ongoing proceedings in the criminal trial of Kwabena Adu-Boahene, the immediate past Director-General of the National Signals Bureau (NSB), formerly known as the Bureau of National Communications (BNC).
While the Attorney-General complied with the filing of records from the Akufo-Addo era, he hesitated when lead defence counsel, Samuel Atta Akyea, requested a similar disclosure of National Security financial records under President John Dramani Mahama.
The disclosures were made during proceedings in the case of The Republic vs Kwabena Adu-Boahene, a former Director-General of the National Signals Bureau (NSB), who is standing trial over allegations of financial misconduct. The Attorney-General’s office submitted into evidence a tranche of documents, including detailed bank statements and international wire transfer records, shedding light on years of covert National Security transactions.
According to documents reviewed by court observers and widely circulated on social media, the financial records reveal multi-million dollar dealings between the Government of Ghana’s National Security apparatus and foreign entities, including Israeli firms contracted for intelligence and cyber-defense operations. Some of the transactions were reportedly initiated or supervised by the late National Security Coordinator, Joshua Kyeremeh, as well as Kwabena Adu-Boahene and other key operatives.
Prominently featured in the filings is Edith Opokua Adumuah, then Director of Finance at National Security, who is currently a prosecution witness in the case. The filings suggest that she played an instrumental role in overseeing the flow of funds from what the Attorney-General referred to as the “Government BNC account,” believed to be a special operations account.
*Thusday’s court proceedings*
During proceedings in court on Thursday, June 26, at the Case Management Conference in Republic vs Kwabena Adu Boahene, the defence team, led by lawyer Samuel Atta Akyea, prayed the court to compel the state to disclose all evidence uncovered during investigations; especially material that could potentially exonerate the accused.
In an accompanying affidavit to a motion for further disclosures, the defence lawyers cited that: “The Attorney-General has unreservedly filed the National Security Coordinator’s special operations accounts during the presidency of Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to the whole world”
Akyea insisted that there were omissions in the prosecution’s disclosures that could contain exculpatory information and warned against what he described as the Attorney-General’s “cherry-picking” of evidence.
“The prosecution is duty-bound to disclose all material gathered during investigations — not just what supports their case,” Akyea told the court.
He then called for the disclosure of all transactions from the National Security Special Operations Accounts for all dispensations in the 4th Republic dating back to 1992, claiming such records could help establish a pattern crucial to his client’s defence.
But the Deputy Attorney-General, Justice Srem Sai, dismissed the claims, citing the defence’s request for national security accounts records as overly broad and irrelevant to the charges currently before the court.
The case has been adjourned to Thursday, 3rd July, 2025, when a ruling on their defence motion is expected.
Kwabena Adu Boahene, the immediate past Director General of the National signals Bureau, under the National Security Council is facing charges relating to alleged financial misconduct. He has consistently denied any wrongdoing.
