I can’t confirm that Dr Addison spied on the Bank of Ghana – Attorney-General

Attorney-General Dr Dominic Ayine has said that he has not been briefed by National Security on the allegation that former Governor of the Bank of Ghana, Dr Ernest Adison was spying on the central bank.
He says he cannot confirm that assertion.

“From a technical standpoint, I cannot confirm that fact, I haven’t held any conversations with national security on that specific issue and I will not dare answer a question on that,” he said when asked for confirmation or otherwise on that particular claim against Dr Addison during a press conference in Accra on Monday March 24.
Over the weekend, Retired Colonel Festus Aboagye made the allegation against Dr Addison.

He alleged that intelligence gathered by the state suggested Dr Addison had installed electronic surveillance devices in his residence, linking them to the BoG for remote monitoring.

Speaking on TV3’s The Key Points show on Saturday, March 22, Rtd. Col. Aboagye explained that National Security operatives acted based on this intelligence when they searched Dr. Addison’s home.

He asserted that the destruction of the former Governor’s CCTV camera was, in reality, the removal of a “monitoring wire” used for surveillance.

“What is coming out, unless contested, is that there was intelligence—I’m speaking on what I have checked—that former Governor Addison, when I got social information and checked from a source within National Security, certain individuals within National Security, had wired his place with what we call backdoor electronic devices,” he revealed.

The retired military officer further claimed that multiple sources confirmed this intelligence, stating, “He had devices in his house, wired to the Bank of Ghana, which enabled him to monitor what was going on. Monitoring is a very diplomatic word; this is spying, this is surveillance.”

He stressed that such actions would constitute unauthorized surveillance, stating, “The state has not authorized anybody in the form of a former BoG Governor to mount surveillance on the premises of BoG. The naked wireless was wired into devices. As far as I’m concerned, that was the objective of that search.”