NSB Finance Head Tells Court: I was Collecting Cash in ‘Ghana Must Go’ Bags for Adu Boahene

The Head of Finance at the National Signal Bureau (NSB), Edith Ruby Opokua Adumuah, has told the Accra High Court that she routinely collected large sums of money packed in “Ghana must go” bags from the bank on the instructions of her former boss, Kwabena Adu Boahene, the ex-Director-General of the Bureau.

Testifying as the second prosecution witness (PW2) before Justice Eugene Nyadu Nyante of the General Jurisdiction 10 Court on Tuesday, Ms. Adumuah confirmed under cross-examination that she withdrew these funds from the Universal Merchant Bank (UMB) and transported them to the NSB offices.

According to her, the size of the Ghana must go bags used depended entirely on the denomination of the cash withdrawn.

“Usually, it will be in Ghana must go bags,” she said, adding that smaller denominations required larger bags.

During cross-examination, lead defense counsel Samuel Atta-Kyea suggested to the witness that the monies she carried from the bank were neither diverted nor stolen. Mrs. Adumuah agreed, confirming that the funds were strictly for national security operations.

She further agreed that using such bags to move operational funds was not unusual within the nature of national security work.

“You will want to affirm that… there is nothing wrong with delivering special operations funds in Ghana must go bags?” Mr. Atta-Kyea asked.
“Yes,” she responded.

Madam Adumuah also admitted that she had, on occasion, disbursed lump sums of operational cash to unidentified persons as part of security work.

She explained that banks do not deliver such funds to national security offices using bullion vans, and that operational funds available for special assignments were sometimes “unlimited.”

She also told the court that national security sometimes exhausts its operational funds, particularly when budgetary releases are delayed—often arriving in March or April.

She added that delays in government releases sometimes compelled national security to rely on funds from outside the approved budget.

When asked if the monies used for operations before budgetary releases were from non-governmental sources, she answered in the affirmative.

The witness acknowledged preparing budgets for the NSB, which include components such as compensation, goods and services, and capital expenditure.

The case continues as the prosecution seeks to establish allegations of financial misconduct involving the former NSB Director-General, his wife, Angela Adjei-Boateng and company – Advantage Solutions.

 

 

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