Bright Ernest Akomea aka Double[/caption]
A national security operative, Bright Ernest Akomea, popularly known as Double has admitted circumventing the laws of the country to accommodate the Member of Parliament for Ningo Prampram, Samuel Nartey George.
Speaking through an interpreter, he told the Emile Short Commission investigating the violent activities at the Ayawaso West Wuogon by-election on Tuesday that he, at least, broke the law twice for the MP.
The Commission had earlier had testimonies suggesting that Double was in the company of the armed masked men, working for national security, who were alleged to have visited mayhem on civilians during the by-election.
When Sam George took his turn at the Commission, he said he was able to make Double out of the armed men because he knew him prior to the by-election.
According to the MP, Double was with the militia group known as the Invisible Forces affiliated to the governing New Patriotic Party. He also recognized Double as a national security operative after meeting him at the VIP terminal at the Kotoka International Airport, working as such.
Sam George also claimed, he saw Double on January 31 near the NDC parliamentary candidate in the by-election’s house shooting into civilians.
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Three weeks training
But double who testified before the Commission denied all the claims made by the MP except for their encounters at the airport.
Though Double admitted that his only formal training as a security operative was a three-week basic training on small weapon handling including mapping, he never fired a shot at the scene as suggested by Sam George.
Even the AK47 he was seen with at that day was borrowed, without authorization, from a police officer who was driving a SWAT branded vehicle carrying him and other security operatives.
He also said he couldn’t have fired that gun without being ordered by the commander who was with them – DSP Azugu.
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Sam George[/caption]
Recounting his meeting with Sam George, Double put on record that when the two met at Ayawaso by-election, he knew Sam George but the MP didn’t know him contrary to what the MP told the Commission.
Rather, it was after the incident that the two met again where he formally introduced himself to Sam George and they perhaps took the relationship to a notch higher.
This explains his admission before the Commission that he had to sidestep the laws on two occasions to favour the MP as a security operative at the airport.
On the first occasion, he said he intervened to get some unauthorized persons in the company of Sam George to use the VIP lounge just because he is an MP.
Barely two weeks ago the Accra Metropolitan Assembly’s taskforce at the airport “arrested” the MP, and for the second time, the MP fell on him for support, which he did.
Double recalled Sam George calling him about the arrest which he intervened and got the MP released.
Baffled by the narration, a member of the Commission Professor Henrietta Mensah-Bonsu asked Double the number of times he has broken the law when he was rather to enforce the law, he answered “just two times”.
By Isaac Essel |3news.com | Ghana]]>
