The Chairman of Parliament’s Defence and Interior Committee, James Agalga, has strongly denied allegations that Members of Parliament received GH₵960,000 in bribes to facilitate the passage of the National Signals Bureau Act, 2020 (Act 1040).
These claims, made by former ex-Director General of the National Signals Bureau, Kwabena Adu Boahene, in a memo to the Auditor General, were labeled by Agalga as “spurious,” “baseless,” and “an act of desperation.”
In a signed statement, Agalga clarified that at the time the Act was passed in 2020, Adu Boahene had no involvement with the Bureau, which was not yet operational. He explained that Adu Boahene only assumed his position in 2021, making it impossible for him to have made any payments to a parliamentary committee for a bill that had already been passed.
“At the time of the passage of Act 1040, Hon Seth Acheampong was the Committee Chairman and I served as the Ranking Member,” Agalga stated. “The National Signals Bureau, which Mr. Boahene later headed, did not even exist when the bill was being considered.”
He emphasized that the committee only interacted with the then-Minister for National Security, Albert Kan Dapaah, and the late National Security Coordinator, Joshua Kyeremeh, throughout the legislative process. “The committee had nothing to do with Adu-Boahene during the passage of the Act and therefore could not have received any money from him,” Agalga concluded.
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