Peacefmonline.com can confirm that scores of security operatives drawn from the Bureau of National Investigations (BNI) and the Ghana Police Service have carried out two raids in a matter of hours on residential and office complex of some leading members of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP). 

The Security personnel carried out a search at the home of Captain Edmund Koda (rtd), the head of security of opposition leader Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo.

The raid at the former military man’s abode at Weija, near Accra, was carried out late afternoon Thursday March 24, 2016.

Meanwhile, another raid by a similar team of security men took place a few hours later at about 7pm at the Danquah Institute. That particular operation, targeted the office of Curtis Perry Kwabla Okudzeto, the Deputy Director of Communications of the New Patriotic Party (NPP).

A security man on duty at the time of the raid told the media six people and a policeman in uniform arrived in a Pajero car asking to see one Hajia. He narrated that after informing them everybody had left for the day, they threatened to arrest him and tried hooking his hand with a handcuff for refusing them entry.

“I told them there is no Hajia here and that all the superiors had closed. And they said they wanted to enter but I refused to open the gate. One jumped the wall and opened the gate for the others...They forced a door open and went inside to raid the place and left the premises," he recounted.

The raid left drawers, documents and chairs scattered and cabinets broken.

It is believed the two exercises by security operatives were part of a search for vital information towards the prosecution of three South African ex-police officers arrested this week and arraigned before court for activities deemed to be threatening the security of the state.

The suspects, Major Ahmed Shaik Hazis (Rtd.) 54, WO/Denver Dwayhe Naidu (Rtd.) 39, and Captain Mlungiseleli Jokani (Rtd.) 45, were arrested Monday, for illegally training 15 NPP members who are supposed to provide VIP security to the party's flagbearer and other leading members.

A BNI report indicates the three were illegally training some Ghanaians at the EL-Capitano hotel in Cape Coast and caused their arrest together with the owner of the hotel as well as Captain KODA the security head for the opposition flagbearer Nana Akufo Addo.

The suspects were dragged before a Circuit Court, Thursday, by the BNI.

And despite praying the judge to remand the suspects for 14 days for investigations into the matter to be complete, the judge refused the request and granted a ¢20,000 bail to the suspects with two sureties each to be justified.

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