The NDC Member of Parliament for Ningo Prampram Sam George has said the National Security personnel, Bright Ernest Akomeah, popularly known as Double was coached on what to say to the Emile Short Commission.
Mr. Akomeah who appeared before the Emile Short Commission on Tuesday said he protected the Ningo-Prampram MP during the violent scuffle that ensued during the Ayawaso West Wuogon by-election.
He also claimed he helped Sam George’s entourage use the VIP lounge at the Kotoka International Airport.
But the MP has denied these claims, alleging that Mr. Akomeah’s version of events was full of inconsistencies.
“It is shocking that individual can contrive lies in a way that I witnessed today. Before telling these lies ‘Double’ had established to the commission and anybody who was fair-minded that he was not a credible witness. An illiterate national security officer, who is not in charge VIP Longue would not be my go-to person to use the VIP when it is a privilege I enjoy as Member of Parliament I am putting on record double was coached to come and give his testimony today,” he said.
Sam George who was assaulted by some of the armed masked men who were deployed by the National Security agency had named Double as one of the men who fired warning shots into the crowd.
Testifying before the Short Commission, Mr. Akomeah also said he had been working with the national security for two years after three-week training.
“I work as a national security operative. And I have been doing that for almost two years. Prior to working with the National Security, I was selling mobile phones at Kwame Nkrumah Circle,” Double said.
He said before his recruitment; he was a mobile phone dealer at Kwame Nkrumah Circle in Accra.
Asked by Counsel to the Commission, Eric Osei Mensah how he was recruited into the National Security Council, Bright Ernest Akomea told the Commission that “in 2017, I heard that National Security was recruiting, and I applied. I went in with my application… I went for vetting, and they took my fingerprint.”
‘I was an NPP polling station chairman.’
Double, who had listed names of persons he claims he saw among the agitated mob around the parliamentary candidate’s house struggled to explain how he knew that the said individuals were private security persons of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC).
In answering questions by Prof. Henrietta Mensa Bonsu, Double told the Commission that he had encountered the persons he listed at NDC events as a polling station chairman for the New Patriotic Party.
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By: Farida Yusif | citinewsroom.com | Ghana
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