{"id":392904,"date":"2017-05-29T15:10:09","date_gmt":"2017-05-29T15:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/05\/29\/hot-audio-3-former-govt-appointees-cited-in-4m-chop-chop\/"},"modified":"2017-05-29T15:10:09","modified_gmt":"2017-05-29T15:10:09","slug":"hot-audio-3-former-govt-appointees-cited-in-4m-chop-chop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/05\/29\/hot-audio-3-former-govt-appointees-cited-in-4m-chop-chop\/","title":{"rendered":"Hot Audio: 3 former gov\u2019t appointees cited in $4m \u2018chop, chop&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The Bureau\u00a0of National Investigations (BNI) is investigating some top officials of the John Mahama administration for allegedly taking $4 million from the accounts of the National Communications Authority (NCA) and failing to account for it.<\/p>\n<p>Disclosing this in an exclusive interview with Joy FM&#8217;s Super Morning Show host Kojo Yankson, Information Minister, Mustapha Hamid said the three officials &#8211; Eugene Baffoe-Bonnie, former Board Chairman of the NCA; William Tevie, former Chief Executive Officer of the NCA; Alhaji Osman, former Deputy National Security Coordinator \u2013 were aided by a private citizen, George Oppong to engage in the act.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the previous administration had contracted an Israeli company, NSO\u00a0Group Technology Limited, to supply listening equipment at the cost of $6 million, to enable the authorities to monitor conversations of persons suspected to be engaged in terror activities. 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