The Director of Finance on the Nationwide Indicators Bureau (NSB), Edith Ruby Opokua Adumuah, has revealed in courtroom how she unknowingly authorised the switch of GH¢49 million into accounts allegedly linked to the previous NSB Director, Kwabena Adu-Boahene.
In her witness assertion dated 30 Might 2025, Madam Adumuah outlined how a collection of funds had been made beneath the instruction of Mr Adu-Boahene, known as “A1” within the courtroom paperwork.
Based on her, the NSB operated three predominant accounts: the “Bureau of Nationwide Communications” account on the Financial institution of Ghana (BoG), which was the Bureau’s major account; a second operational account on the BoG titled “Bureau of Nationwide Communications 2”; and a Constancy Checking account named “The Director BNC”.
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On 6 February 2020, she stated A1 instructed her to jot down a cheque for GH¢27.1 million, made payable to “BNC Operations”, and later handed it over to him. On the time, she believed the payee referred to an inner account.
Her assumption was later confirmed incorrect.
I later discovered, once I was invited for questioning regarding this case, that that individual cheque was deposited into an account named ‘BNC Communications Bureau-Operations’ at UMB Financial institution. I didn’t know this on the time I wrote the cheque for A1. I additionally discovered from EOCO investigators that that checking account belonged to a personal firm referred to as ‘BNC Communication Bureau Restricted’, which is owned and managed by A1 and A2.
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The witness disclosed that on 18 March 2020, A1 once more directed her to subject a cheque for GH¢1 million from the Bureau’s Constancy Checking account, “The Director BNC”. A 3rd cost adopted on 30 March 2020, when she was requested to arrange a cheque for GH¢21 million from the identical account.
She added that after A1 and the late Nationwide Safety Coordinator, Joshua Kyeremeh, signed the cheques, she was instructed to deposit them into the “BNC Operations” account at UMB Financial institution.
I complied with A1’s directive believing that ‘BNC Operations’ checking account was a further BNC operational account which I didn’t have the safety clearance to know. I can establish the copies of cheque numbered 020086 for GH¢27,100,000.00, cheque numbered 020089 for GH¢1,000,000.00, and cheque numbered 020094 for GH¢21,000,000.00 to the Honourable Courtroom.
She nonetheless admitted:
The directions from A1 to jot down the cheques in favour of ‘BNC Operations’ and deposit similar into the UMB account got here to me as uncommon. Nevertheless, because of the ‘need-to-know’ coverage in our set-up, I used to be unable to boost any query however somewhat carried out A1’s directions.
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Mr Adu-Boahene, his spouse Angela Adjei Boateng, Mildred Donkor, and Benefit Options Restricted are at present facing 11 charges, together with stealing, defrauding by false pretences, and conspiracy to commit against the law.
