According to him, some cables were found that connected surveillance devices to the Central Bank.
While noting that this may be the standard procedure by the governor during his term of office, he is no longer required to “spy” on activities at the Central Bank since he is no longer at post.
Col Aboagye speaking on TV3’s, The Key Points on March 22, 2025, said: “He had wired his place with what we call backdoor electronic devices. There are devices in this house, wired to the Bank of Ghana, which enables you to monitor what goes on in the bank.
“In fact, monitoring is a very diplomatic word. This is spying, this is surveillance, and the state has not authorised anybody in the form of a former Bank of Ghana Governor to mount surveillance on the premises of the Bank of Ghana,” he added.
The security expert noted that it is based on this intelligence that the operation happened, adding that the objective of the search was to retrieve those devices.
“That was the intelligence that the state had. And as the Deputy Attorney General explained, they needed a plan to go. So the wires that we saw were the wires into the device. As far as I’m concerned, that was the objective of that search,” he added.
The governor tendered an early resignation two months before his expected retirement in March.
Col Aboagye said: “His retirement was this March but he is no longer serving at the Bank of Ghana so he should have disconnected those devices. Why was he still having them?”
National Security Operatives on March 19, 2025, conducted an operation at the home of former Bank of Governor, Ernest Addison.
According to the Deputy Attorney General, Justice Srem-Sai, the search was lawfully conducted.
However, there were reports that CCTV cameras connected to the Bank of Ghana were found in the home of the former governor.
Source: www.ghanaweb.com
