Over 6m cedis of the money I’m accused of stealing was used to finance 2024 elections - Adu-Boahene confesses

The erstwhile Director-General of the National Signals Bureau, Kwabena Adu-Boahene, who is presently successful the custody of EOCO, has penned down a enactment detailing what the monies helium and his woman are accused of stealing were utilized for.

Kwabena Adu-Boahene and his woman are astatine the halfway of a corruption ungraded for allegedly diverting monies meant to fortify Ghana’s cybersecurity strategy into their backstage accounts.

They are facing 11 charges including stealing and causing fiscal nonaccomplishment to the State.

The charges were made nationalist by the Attorney General connected Wednesday, April 30, 2025 during a property conference.

In a missive written from the Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO) custody, Adu-Boahene refutes the claims by the Attorney General, Dominic Ayine.

"I springiness you my highest assurances that Angela [wife] and I would ne'er bargain nationalist funds, arsenic is being deliberately and wickedly portrayed by the Attorney-General. In immoderate case, however does 1 bargain nationalist funds successful the mode being described by the Attorney-General without being flagged by the Auditor-General?

"Further, I springiness you my highest assurances that Angela [wife] and I would ne'er instrumentality what does not beryllium to us, adjacent if privately arranged. We are afloat of contented with the humble blessings God has fixed us," helium wrote.

Establishing the facts pertaining to what the wealth successful question—49 cardinal cedis—was spent on, Adu-Boahene revealed portion of it was utilized to money the 2020 and 2024 elections.

He quoted GHC 7,285,000 was utilized for what helium referred to arsenic “elections peculiar operations” for the 2020 wide elections which covered the outgo of logistics and outgo of allowances.

Also, GHC 6,764,000 was paid for logistics and allowances for the 2024 December elections.

These monies were aimed to guarantee the “stability of the federation and for peaceful polling”, Adu-Boahene stressed successful his letter.

He further accused the EOCO boss, Raymond Archer, of deliberately distorting the facts and warned that this “could embarrass the authorities and nationalist security”.

He added that helium has intentionally withheld classified accusation from his interrogators, hence advised the National Security Coordinator, to whom the missive was written, to intervene to avert the imaginable humiliation that the State whitethorn look “before it becomes excessively late”.