Kwabena Adu Boahene, former Director-General of the National Signals Bureau
Veteran broadcaster, Paul Adom Otchere has revealed the crucial role played by the embattled former Director-General of the National Signals Bureau, Kwabena Adu Boahene that led to the rescue of some two Canadian girls kidnapped in the Ashanti Region in 2019.
According to Adom Otchere, Adu Boahene was the security operative who led a crack team of police personnel to rescue the foreigners who had been held for many days by some four kidnappers.
Speaking on his show Good Evening Ghana on Tuesday, May 20, 2025, Adom Otchere who claims to have seen a video of the rescue narrated how Adu Boahene skillfully and successfully executed his mission.
“If you see the video of Kwabena Adu Boahene that I saw in Atta Akyea’s office rescuing the Canadian girls who had been kidnapped that guy could have died at any time. I am sure as the process goes on, these are not videos that we should see but the way the trial is going some of these videos may have to come to the court. If you see Kwabena Adu Boahene in the holes that he was in the Ashanti Region trying to rescue…, he had to hold the girls himself with his hand. He had to go in with a massive police operation and he had to hold them by hand.
“You have to go there and there and finds a taxi driver there and you ask him who is in this house and he responds, I don’t know and he [Adu Boahen] says take this money and tell me, that is National Security money. He goes to another place and sees a man pushing a wheel barrow and asks him who are those in this house, the man feigns ignorance, he gives him money GH₵10,000 and then he says some men are with some white girls in that house. Then Kwabena Adu Boahene signals the Police to surround the house.
I saw the video. He said surround the house we have to go in. Going in you don’t know whether they had guns, knife, petrol bombs…you don’t know but you are the National Security Coordinator. You call Albert Kan Dapaah, you say Chief we are on the premises, he says be careful, how are you going to enter? I need all the support, can you get 4BN to get ready because we might need reinforcement, and do they have helicopters? he says yes. Let the helicopters fly over we just might need it. We are going in, we pray to God that we can do this. Then they move in, that move in, you can open the door and the guy will spray all of you, and you will die, but that is what Kwabena Adu Boahene did. I have seen the videos.
Then he went in and rescued the girls and brought them out. That GH₵10,000 and GH₵5,000 he gave to somebody is National Security operation. When he comes back and he is doing classification, he will classify it as GH₵100,000 cedis used to buy flower and someone will shout in shock, this guy is a thief. That is what happens.”
On June 4, 2019, a gang of four kidnappers in a car, accosted the two Canadian ladies, who had hired the services of an Uber ride at their hostel at Nhyiaeso, a suburb of Kumasi, assaulted them and forced them into their own vehicle amid shooting.
They took their victims to their uncompleted building hideout at Kenyasi Krobo, another suburb of Kumasi and demanded a ransom of $800,000 from the families of the two ladies during their captivity.
The ladies were, however, rescued on June 11, 2019, by an operation led by the National Security.
Meanwhile, Kwabena Adu-Boahene, remains in custody despite completing the court’s seven working day remand directive.
The former security chief, on trial for charges including stealing, money laundering, and causing financial loss to the state, was initially remanded on Friday, May 2, over allegations of witness tampering.
However, his lawyer, Samuel Atta Akyea, informed the court on Tuesday, May 13, that his client had been rearrested on a separate matter after the initial remand period had lapsed.
Although he did not provide details about the new arrest, the Attorney General had earlier indicated that Adu-Boahene was under investigation in connection with an internet connectivity case at Ghana Water Limited.
Regarding the current case involving the alleged diversion of GH¢49.1 million, the judge has adjourned proceedings to May 26 for a case management conference.
The state has filed all its witness statements and is expected to disclose them to the defense by no later than May 20, 2025.
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