Witness Blows Whistle On ‘Ghana Must Go’ Bags of Cash for Shady Deals
By Prince Ahenkorah
The plot thickens in the high-stakes battle against former National Signal Bureau Boss Kwabena Adu Boahene and his wife Angela Adjei-Boateng.
Explosive new details have emerged from Frank Anane Dekpey, the man who claims to have been Adu Boahene’s personal errand boy, detailing a web of alleged illicit financial activities that would make your head spin.
In a dramatic court session, three key testimonies rocked the prosecution of Kwabena Adu-Boahene, the former Director-General of the National Signals Bureau (NSB), and his wife, Angela Adjei-Boateng.
Their alleged accomplice, Mildred Donkor, and their jointly owned company, Advantage Solutions Limited, are also caught in the dragnet.
These four are currently facing a litany of charges, including stealing and causing financial loss to the state, all stemming from the alleged diversion of a staggering GH¢49.1 million in public funds.
According to bombshell witness statements summarized from lead investigator Frank Marshall Cromwell, NSB Director of Finance Edith Ruby Opokua Adumua, and the self-professed “errand boy,” Frank Anane Dekpey, the scandal runs deep.
Dekpey, the alleged errand boy, painted a vivid picture of his role, revealing he was frequently dispatched to both withdraw and deposit massive sums of cash from UMB and Stanbic banks.
His chilling testimony included claims that the money was often transported in those infamous, oversized “Ghana Must Go” bags.
He further confessed to making deposits into the Stanbic Bank account of “Vertex Solutions,” a company previously flagged as having ties to the accused.
Adding another layer of intrigue, Edith Ruby Opokua Adumuah, the NSB’s Director of Finance, corroborated the mechanics of these transfers.
Under the guise of a “need-to-know” security policy, she followed Adu Boahene’s directives, believing these were legitimate BNC operational accounts.
Little did she know, she claims, they belonged to a private company owned by Kwabena Adu Boahene and his wife.
Ms. Adumuah recounted how the former Director-General personally instructed her to cut three hefty cheques, amounting to a colossal GH¢49.1 million, all payable to “BNC Operations.”
Trusting the legitimacy of these undisclosed accounts, she complied, depositing the funds into a UMB account as instructed by Adu Boahene.
She also raised eyebrows by noting that the reasons for these payments from operational accounts were never disclosed to her, and she highlighted Adu Boahene’s peculiar reliance on the third accused for banking errands, even after the individual had left UMB Bank.
Meanwhile, Frank Marshall Cromwell, an investigator and Staff Officer at the Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO), provided a meticulous account of the alleged financial malfeasance.
Cromwell testified that as the custodian of BNC’s cheque books, she was explicitly ordered by Kwabena Adu Boahene to write cheques for gargantuan sums, with the payee vaguely identified as “BNC Operations.”
The EOCO investigation, which kicked off in March 2025 following a crucial tip-off, uncovered that Adu Boahene signed an international contract in January 2020 for a US$7 million cyber defense system with an Israeli company, ISC Holdings Limited.
But here’s where it gets really juicy: EOCO’s probe established that Adu Boahene allegedly diverted the equivalent amount in Ghana cedis (GH¢49.1 million) from the BNC’s Fidelity Bank account into a private company account named “BNC Communications Bureau Limited – Operations” at UMB Bank.
Cromwell laid bare the alleged scheme, detailing how this UMB account was opened a mere day before the first of three cheques, totaling GH¢49.1 million, was deposited – strongly suggesting it was created solely for the diversion.
He revealed that only a paltry US$1.75 million was actually transferred to ISC Holdings. After that, Adu Boahene allegedly embarked on a lavish “spending spree” with substantial cash withdrawals for personal use, often facilitated by the third accused.
The investigator further exposed that other companies linked to the accused had no legitimate business operations, and significant properties purportedly acquired with these ill-gotten gains have since been frozen by court order.
As the trial unfolds, all eyes remain fixed on the shocking revelations emerging from this high-profile case.
