Three South African ex-police officers, linked to the New Patriotic Party (NPP) flagbearer, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, have been grabbed by the Bureau of National Investigations (BNI) for engaging in terrorism related acts.
The suspects, 54-year-old Major Ahmed Shaik Hazis (rtd.), 45-year-old Capt. Mlungiseleli Jokani (rtd.) and 39-year-old Warrant Officer Denver Dwayhe were arrested last Sunday at the El Capitano Hotel at Agona Duakwa in the Central Region.
“The trio, all ex-police officers were engaged in training fifteen young men in various military drills, including unarmed combat, weapon handling, VIP protection techniques and rapid response maneuvers,” said a document Myjoyonline.com reported to have intercepted.
These security drills, the report stated, were being undertaken under the pretext training the recruits for Delta Force Security, a company owned by one Capt Kwesi Acquah (Rtd) who also owns the El Capitano Hotel.
“The said training raises security issues given the heightened security awareness in the country following some terrorist attacks in the sub-region,” the report quoted the document to have stated.
One interesting part of the report is the supposed revelation to BNI officials by the leader of the group, Hazis, that they were brought into the country by one Capt. Koda, head of Nana Akufo-Addo’s security detail.
The BNI , according to the report, says the suspects claim they are security management consultants, with Hazis disclosing that he was part of Nana Akufo-Addo’s security detail during the 2012 elections but left the country soon after.
“Strangely, however, when the Police and BNI operatives went to the hotel to ascertain their mission they were refused entry by the trainees. However, the security operatives finally entered the place and conducted a search on them. Surprisingly, a comprehensive report on the operations of Superlock Technologies Ltd (STL) was found in the possession of Hazis. The document contained a detailed profile of all the workers of STL, past and present and went on to identify key staff members, giving an assessment of their strengths and vulnerabilities with the view to possibly compromising them so as to get them commit acts that will tend to favour a particular party in the 2016 elections, using the STL security infrastructure. Images of all workers of STL were also contained in the document,” said the BNI briefing document.
STL was the company the Electoral Commission contracted to transmit results from collation centres across the country to the EC head office in Accra during the 2012 general elections which’s result was contested at the Supreme Court by the NPP.
