Private legal practitioner, Kwesi Botchway Jnr, has responded to the Attorney-General Dr Dominic Ayine's claims against former Director-General of the National Signals Bureau (NSB), Kwabena Adu-Boahene, stating he believes the Attorney-General was "misbriefed." In a statement titled "Setting the Records Straight: Was Kwabena Adu-Boahene a Staff of the National Signals Bureau in 2007 and Subsequently its Director in 2017?
Did he steal funds from a state BNC to his private BNC, as claimed by the Attorney-General?
Did the Attorney-General Lie?", the lawyer dismantled what he calls a false foundation underpinning the criminal case being prosecuted by the state.
According to Botchway, the Attorney-General's assertion that Adu-Boahene had served as a staff member of the National Signals Bureau (NSB) in 2007 and became its director in 2017 is "a complete lie and a deliberate attempt to misinform and mislead the public." He clarified that "the National Signals Bureau, an agency of the National Security Council, was established on 29th December 2020 by the National Signals Bureau Act, 2020 (Act 1040)." According to him, before this legal framework was enacted, Adu-Boahene worked under the National Security Coordinator's Office as part of the Bureau of National Communications (BNC), an internal unit that evolved from the Central Technical Laboratory and Workshop (CTL/W), later renamed the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ).
