What appears to be a deliberate attempt to pit the Economic and Organise Crime Office (EOCO) against the former Director of Operations of the National Security, Colonel Michael Opoku, and rope him into purported missing cars scandal is failing on all fronts.
Emerging details reveal that the Colonel who has been at the receiving end of media flaks has done nothing wrong and that the supposed fourteen (14) cars were not on the compound by the time the security capo occupied the bungalow.
It came to pass that Colonel Opoku, after his appointment as the Director of Operation of National Security was allocated a dilapidated bungalow, which he later learnt was the facility of the anti-graft agency (EOCO), and even had cars packed on the compound.
National Security sources with knowledge of the issue say that Col Opoku, after visiting the facility and knowing that the parked cars belonged to EOCO; wrote to them to inform them about the allocation that had been made to him and about the cars he had seen on the compound.
“EOCO moved the cars from the yard so before Col. moved in, after renovating the facility to make it habitable, the cars were not on the compound. Nobody handed cars to him, it was just the bungalow and he wrote to inform EOCO about the allocation. He was not handed cars so how would anybody in his wildest imagination be asking him about cars?”
Fast-forward, the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) carried out an auctioning of some 54 cars(published) on the compound of the National Security after which calls started coming in about the keys to some of the cars. It was at this point it came to light that some of the cars, which keys were even not in the custody of the National Security, may have been added to the auctioned cars, which triggered EOCO probe.
“It will interest you to know that amongst those EOCO is investigating, Col Opoku is not one but he voluntarily gave them all he knew about the issue. It this a man that should be crucified in the media? Those behind this attack should bow their heads in shame. Col. doesn’t deserve this,” National Security operatives who worked under the former Director of Operations told this paper.
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