Escape from NAM1: Security has been completely collapsed – Budu Koomson

General News of Monday, January 21, 2019

Source: citinewsroom.com

2019-01-21

Captain Budu Koomson, a security badyst and former army chief, said that the treatment of the location of Menzgold's CEO, Nana Appiah Mensah, had turned out to be an embarrbadment for security agencies. security.

"There has been a complete breakdown of security when this case is involved," said Captain Koomson in The Big Issue.

He added that the evolution of the Menzgold saga suggested that financial institutions may have failed in their intelligence activities.

"If there is financial information, there is BNI, there is CID, there are all these things and the imminent threat has not been seen? So where is the intelligence? Intelligence is the collection of information. "

Captain Budu Koomson also asked what the Embbady of Ghana in the United Arab Emirates was doing for a government delegation to leave Ghana to engage the UAE authorities about a possible extradition .

"The embbady staff does not do what it is supposed to do. That's why we have to constantly move from here to these countries to do what they are supposed to do. "

"Right now, we have eggs on our faces. Look at the timelines; when we said that we had issued a warrant against him, he had already been arrested before.

The warrant was issued on Jan. 9 against NAM 1 because of his company's inability to pay their money to investors, but subsequent information from Dubai indicated that he had been arrested on December 7.

Nam 1 has been accused by the state of defrauding by false pretenses, fearing that he has overseen a ponzi scheme in Ghana.

Resellers of minerals have also reported fraud in Dubai. According to him, his company, Horizon Royal Diamonds DMCC, had attempted to enter into a contract with NAM 1 for 750 kilos of gold worth approximately US $ 51 million.

The Ghana Police Service and the Bureau for Combating Organized and Economic Crime (EOCO) have stated that NAM 1 will only be brought to Ghana after the case against them in the UAE is resolved. .

"The Ghanaian delegation understands that Mr. Mensah faces charges of petty crime in the United Arab Emirates and will be made available to Ghana in the final decision on his case in the United Arab Emirates. His case is expected for the court on February 2, 2019. "