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  • Mahama never received vehicles from NSB, he won’t stoop low to that – Tanko-Computer

    Mahama never received vehicles from NSB, he won’t stoop low to that – Tanko-Computer


    The Deputy Director of Elections and IT for the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Dr. Rashid Tanko-Computer, has urged the general public to disregard claims that President John Dramani Mahama received three high-end vehicles before assuming office.

    His remarks come in response to a memo allegedly authored by former National Signals Bureau (NSB) boss, Kwabena Adu-Boahene, and addressed to the National Security Coordinator making, those claims.

    Adu-Boahene claimed that his outfit disbursed GH¢5,135,000 to the special aide of President Mahama for the purchase of luxury vehicles, including a Nissan Patrol Platinum, a 2024 Nissan Patrol Titanium, and a 2022 Land Cruiser GXR.

    The NIB boss’ allegation comes at the time, where he is facing 11 counts of offences, including stealing, money laundering, defrauding by false pretences, and wilfully causing financial loss.

    He has insisted that every disbursement made under his leadership at the NSB was authorised, and directly related to national security operations.

    “I am not a thief,” he wrote. “All funds were expended in good faith and in service to the Republic.”

    But according to Tanko-Computer, these allegations are baseless, emphasizing that the allegation is an attempt by the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) party to tarnish the image of President Mahama.

    “I don’t know anything about this. How can that be possible? I know the calibre of the President we have, he won’t stoop that low to this,” he asserted.

  • Rail minister’s laptop ‘stolen from under his seat in a London bar

    Rail minister’s laptop ‘stolen from under his seat in a London bar

    It has been reported that a minister’s laptop, which contained very sensitive information, was stolen when he was sitting at a pub in London.

    Only days before the largest day of strikes in the UK’s history, which involved thousands of workers, it was stolen from Rail Minister Huw Merriman.

    Just last month Metro.co.uk exclusively revealed that a laptop containing ‘sensitive’ data was stolen from an MP’s office on the parliamentary estate.

    The Evening Standard reports that Huw Merriman’s work computer was taken from under his seat at a bar in London’s Covent Garden on February 2.

    It was the same week that train drivers launched their last round of mass walkouts, causing huge disruption in London and across the UK.

    Sensitive information relating to negotiations over the then-recent strikes was contained on it at the time, but was wiped remotely once the theft was raised with police, sources said.

    Industrial strike
    Minister of State for Rail and HS2, Huw Merriman, reportedly had a laptop stolen while he was in a London pub (Picture: PA)
    Access to physical devices can provide a window of opportunity to hackers according to cybersecurity experts (Picture: Getty Images/iStockphoto)
    A laptop went missing from the parliamentary estate after an MP left his office for the weekend earlier this year (Picture: Reuters)

    The reported theft from the pub on James Street came just a day after the biggest rail walkouts for more than a decade.

    RMT and Aslef workers at 14 train companies took industrial action on February 1 and 3 in a dispute over pay and conditions, which continues.

    It isn’t the first time a laptop belonging to a minister has been stolen from a pub.

    Minister Stuart Andrew’s laptop was taken as he enjoyed a drink in a pub close to Downing Street in February last year.

    Mr Andrew had his work computer, personal device and house keys stolen from the Red Lion in Whitehall.

    The pub is a regular haunt for MPs, government aides and journalists and is just a few hundred meters from the Houses of Parliament.

    The Conservative MP for Pudsey was a housing minister in Boris Johnson’s government at the time of the theft, and now holds jobs in the Department of Culture and the Department for Business and Trade.

    His computer, which had been at his feet when taken, was also accessed and wiped remotely after he reported it missing, it was reported.

    Sources said that Mr Merriman, the Conservative MP for Bexhill and Battle, told the police about his stolen laptop at around 7.30pm, with the Metropolitan Police confirming the theft was reported to them.

    However, they said no arrests had yet been made.

    A government spokesman said: ‘We take the security of government devices extremely seriously, which is why devices, such as laptops and mobile phones, are always encrypted so any loss does not compromise security.’