It has emerged that the former National Youth Authority (NYA) boss and MP for Kumbungu, Ras Mubarak, also secretly placed a tracking device on his official vehicle but failed to inform his successor.
The current acting Chief Executive of the Authority, Emmanuel Asigiri, discovered the device after his vehicle was sent for servicing.
Mr. Asigiri questions why Mr. Mubarak failed to inform officials at the Authority that he was bugging the state vehicle. He made the disclosure Saturday on Joy FM/MultiTV's news analysis programme, Newsfile.
Emmanuel Asigiri was commenting on a recent revelation that former Lands and Natural Resources, Inusah Fuseini, bugged his former office without the knowledge of his successor, John Peter Amewu.
The highly sensitive device is said to have the capability to pick a whisper 35 feet away.
The revelation angered many who thought the former Minister was monitoring the new Minister of the highly sensitive public office.
The Lands and Natural Resources Ministry has been spearheading a vigourous clamp down on illegal mining activities in the country said to be financed by faceless, powerful individuals.
However, speaking on Newsfile, Mr. Asigiri said in March this year, barely a month into his tenure, he also discovered the snooping device in his official vehicle – the same vehicle that had been used by the former NYA boss under the National Democratic Congress administration.
“It is not only Inusah Fuseini who did this type of thing. I have suffered the same personally. My official SUV had a tracking in it and nobody in the authority knew until it created a problem for the vehicle.
“The vehicle won’t start. We tried all the things we needed to do, the vehicle won’t start. We brought experts from Toyota Ghana, they tried everything the vehicle won’t start,” he said.
According to him, it was after a critical study of the vehicle by the dealers that the device was found.
Ras Mubarak has admitted to Joy News he placed the secret tracking device on the state vehicle.
He will, however, not say whether or not the device also had the capacity to secretly listen and record conversations.
“I had a tracking device in my official vehicle. I also had a security camera in my office,” he confessed.
He told Joy News he had packed out of his office several months before the end of 2016 and that while he was leaving office, he ensured that all the security installations were removed.
“I had directed that the tracking device, which was [put in the vehicle] ostensibly for security measures was deactivated, but I haven't been able to follow through because I had handed over,” he said.
“I had directed my driver to ensure that [the tracking device] was removed from the car,” he added.
He has assured the acting NYA Chief Executive that he need not fear that his movements are being snooped.
“I can assure listeners and the acting Chief Executive that of the NYA that he will be the last person who’s movement I would like to monitor. There are too many bigger fishes in the NPP to want to track than somebody at the NYA,” he told Joy News.
Source: Joy News
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you see how wicked minded personified in the party called ndc.
Have you noticed the extraction of the two bugging MP culprits? Their wicked nature makes them distrust everybody and as well scheme to destroy those they work with, including their own comrades. They don't mind spending fortunes to bug and track their colleagues while their own siblings and parents are drinking dam water with animals. They are nothing but evil who should be wiped out.
Did Emmanuel Asigri inform the appointing authorities about this? The Npp should watch out. I am sure the Ndc has bugged all the offices and probably residences of Npp appointees. I am sure if he had alerted them, that of Peter Amewu might have been discovered earlier. Every appointee should sweep his or her office and residence. Remember the Ndc came from a so called brutal revolution. They are wicked; watch out.
THE PROBLEM I HAVE WITH THESE PEOPLE FROM THE NORTHERN PART OF GHANA IS THAT, AS SOON AS THEY HAVE POSITIONS OF AUTHORITY,THEY BECOME POMPOUS AND THINK THEY ARE BETTER THAN EVEN THEIR PARENTS. LOOK AT THE LIKES OF MURTALA MUHAMED,THIS ***barred word*** RAS MURBARAK, BABA JAMAL AND ALL THE OTHERS. THEY ARE BECOMING MORE ARROGANT AND SELF CONCEITED, AND THINK SOME ONE IS AFTER THEM. FOR WHAT I DON'T KNOW BUT THEY ALWAYS BEHAVE AS IF THEY ARE THE VERY BEST IN WHAT THEY DO. ARE THESE PEOPLE MORE IMPORTANT THAN THOSE THAT OCCUPIED THEIR RESPECTIVE OFFICES BEFORE THEM THAT THEY HAD TO BUG THEIR OFFICES? SOMETIMES THE TRUTH MUST BE TOLD,WE HAVE GIVEN THEM FREE EDUCATION AND THEN THEY TURN ROUND AND TRAT US WITH CONTEMPT. I WILL NOT BE SURPRISED IF MORE BUGGING DEVICES ARE FOUND IN OTHER OFFICES PREVIOUSLY OCCUPIED BY THESE "MPEPEFO)".
If i may ask is it rocket science to know that occupying political office needs thorough scrutiny? Why didn't all those appointees also check before using what was given to them? Am surprised.
The annoying part is his reaction. He didn't even apologize, just giving ***barred word*** assurances.
Such is the life of a loud-mouthed bufoon. He should be thoroughly investigated by the BNI. I am inclined to believe that most govt offices and vehicles are bugged by the appointees of the previous govt. Shame on to them.