The Director of Legal Affairs for the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC), Godwin Edudzi Tamakloe, is demanding answers from Mr. Kwabena Adu Boahene, the immediate past Director-General of the National Signals Bureau (NSB), over alleged diversion of public funds into a private company.

In a sharply worded statement on Facebook reacting to Adu Boahene's lawyer, Atta Kyea, Mr. Tamakloe posed a series of direct questions regarding Mr. Adu Boahene’s alleged role in a financial transaction involving public funds and a private company reportedly linked to him.

“Did you move the funds directly into your private company account?

Was the money public funds?

Are you a signatory to this private company’s account?

Did you authorise the movement of funds to this private company?

Were there withdrawals from this private company’s account?

Were these withdrawals contemporaneous with the receipt of the funds from the state agency?” Tamakloe queried.

The NDC legal chief emphasised that attempts to deflect attention from these core issues would not suffice, noting, “Anything else is diversions.”

According to Mr. Tamakloe, the core of the prosecution’s case is straightforward — that Mr. Adu Boahene, while serving as head of a sensitive national security institution in January 2020, entered into a contract with an Israeli company to supply and install security equipment.

Around the same time, he allegedly incorporated a private company with a name similar to the state agency and diverted public funds into this private entity.

He argues that this constitutes the basis of the charge of stealing, emphasising that “the appropriation was done dishonestly.”

Mr. Tamakloe also criticised the defense strategy, cautioning that attempts to justify the transactions by citing alleged payments to Members of Parliament during the 2024 elections — four years after the incident, were irrelevant.

“Alleged payments to MPs after the fact of the appropriation cannot negate the dishonesty associated with the appropriations,” he stated, describing the claims as an “afterthought.”

He further challenged a legal argument made by senior lawyer and former MP, Samuel Atta Akyea, who cited the Security and Intelligence Act, 2020.

Mr Tamakloe pointed out that the Act was not in existence at the time of the alleged offences, which reportedly took place in January and March 2020.

The law, he said, was assented to in October 2020.

“If you look at the particulars of the offences, you would notice that the offences happened in January and March 2020.

So, how are you relying on this Act for prior conduct?” he asked, adding that lawyers have an ethical responsibility to advise their clients properly.

In a final remark, Mr. Tamakloe warned that if Mr. Adu Boahene’s defense team failed to grasp the basic elements of the charges, they risked failing their client.

“At this rate, your lawyers should be advising you on how to do less than 25 years,” he concluded.

The matter continues to stir public and legal debate as the case progresses through the courts.