THOUGHTS OF A MYSTERIOUS MAN

The Notorious SA-3

By Ekow Duncan

TWISTS, TURNS AND SA-3

The story just keeps changing all the time and you can’t help but wonder where the real truth is.

When the “Daily Graphic” first broke the story on a calm Tuesday morning, the NPP’s parliamentary candidate for Adenta jumped up and claimed that it was all just another  fabrication by the propaganda intoxicated National Democratic Congress (NDC).

 Then an hour later, Mr John Boadu, the Acting General Secretary of the same party came up with the story that the three South Africans had been invited by his party and Delta Security.

 Now we know that Delta Security had no hand in bringing the three South African ex-police combatants into Ghana.

According to Captain Acquah, boss of Delta Security the only role played by his company was to have rented out their facilities to the NPP for the training.

The Ministry of Interior   has also confirmed the story as told by Captain Acquah.  A press release signed by the Minister stated that “ a review of the visa applications submitted by the three(3)  South Africans revealed that two (2) of the Suspects ……were invited by Dr Daniel McKorley,  Chairman, Mc Dan Group of companies whiles (the third) Hazis was invited  by Nana Attobrah Ouaicoe, Director of the Danquah Institute…………”

So why did the NPP claim to have invited the suspects, when the party knew nothing about what had transpired?

Or was the McDan group of companies acting on behalf of the NPP and if that was the case, how does it sit with the law?

The other story put out by the NPP was that all three gentlemen were security experts working for a South African Security firm which was partnering Delta Security.

This also turns out to be completely false. Hazis, the apparent leader of the group is employed by iMvula Quality Protection as Director of Operations.  Naidu and Jokani, the other members of the group were employed by GLAEVEC Protection Services Limited of South Africa.

Indeed, none of the two companies had any dealing with Delta Security so where did the NPP get its story from?

It is interesting that Captain Koda has eventually concealed that “with hindsight, he should have sought permission from the authorities before engaging in that exercise”!

The twists and turns of this case have become completely mind boggling.

 Are we to understand the NPP is saying that it is perfectly normal for foreign nationals to enter another country and set up a training camp to train locals in weapon handling, VIP protection, Crowd control and hand to hand combat?

Well, I can bet my bottom dollar that this cannot happen in any country under the sun without raising a security alarm.

Even war torn Afghanistan cannot tolerate a situation in which foreigners show up in the country and just begin training opposition militants not in housekeeping practices but weapons handling and hand to hand combat.

The story gets worse when one of the training operations is code –named “assaulting the pillars of power”

In any case the NPP itself got alarmed when a gentleman called Odinga Lumumba came into Ghana allegedly to train militants of the June4 Movement.

The national security apparatus under the NPP administration arrested Odinga Lumumba and kept him for more than a week without charge or trial in clear contravention of the 1992 constitution.

 Judging by NPP standards in the Odinga Lumumba case, the national security apparatus has been very professional in the case of the SA -3.

All these twists, turns and the SA-3. What rubbish?