Mahamud Pelpuo

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[Mahamud Pelpuo @Pelpuo91]

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[Mahamud Pelpuo @Pelpuo91]

@DennisMiracles Look at this one, always trying to score political points. Hmmm

[Mahamud Pelpuo @Pelpuo91]

@rashpelp Ameen thumma Ameen

[Mahamud Pelpuo @Pelpuo91]

@rashpelp Happy Eid in advance. May Allah bless

[Mahamud Pelpuo @Pelpuo91]

Before January, 2025 and coming into 2025, Ghanaians used to buying fuel at 15/16 cedis per litre.
Now a litre is 11/12 cedis, plus 1 cedi levy. Then we should be buying fuel at 12/13 cedis per litre.
Ok @RAahiagbah. By now your certificates should have been taken away from you

[Mahamud Pelpuo @Pelpuo91]

So if those contracts entered was so bad as you claim why didn’t you renegotiate those contracts for the past 8 years you’ve been gov’t?

[Mahamud Pelpuo @Pelpuo91]

Mr @RAahiagbah, what do you takes us for? You think we don’t have brains?
It’s a shame to say that JDM should renegotiate contracts his gov’t entered into his first term. Then I want to ask you,
Didn’t Ghanaians voted for you in 2016 to change things?

[Richard Ahiagbah @RAahiagbah]

The NDC-Mahama government has introduced a new levy that is worse than the E-levy, better known as the Energy Sector 'Dumsor' Levy, purportedly to stabilize the power supply.

This is not what the NDC-Mahama 2024 campaign promised Ghanaians. They promised to scrap taxes and not raise new taxes to burden or worsen conditions for Ghanaians. As it stands, the NDC has failed to deliver on the promise to:

1. Scrap a list of taxes: the COVID-19 levy, which they argued has outlived its essence, is still being collected.

2. Not to raise taxes: the 2025 Budget introduced new taxes, and now this draconian, all-encompassing Energy Sector Dumsor levy.

This is a betrayal of historic proportions, or shall we say unprecedented deceit of the Ghanaian people in the history of this Fourth Republic.

This Energy Sector Dumsor Levy is a nuisance levy.

What a JDM Administration should be doing now is to renegotiate the scandalous power purchase agreements signed in his first term, which benefited these companies (IPPs) by some $1 billion annually. These agreements signed by President Mahama are the bane and ruin of Ghana's energy sector. The effect of these poorly negotiated contracts can not be transferred to Ghanaians by the same President that committed Ghanaians to that atrocious contract. This is wrong.

What have we done to deserve this abuse by President John Dramami Mahama and the NDC?

This Dumsor levy will be paid by every Ghanaian; it doesn't matter what your station in life is; even babies in the womb will be impacted if this Dumsor levy becomes operational.

a. What have we done, Mr. President?

b. Mr. President why are you not renegotiating the harmful power purchase agreements signed in your first term to ease the debt pressure on the energy sector?

c. Why are you transferring the inefficiencies of your government to Ghanaians in this draconian and harsh levy?

At this rate, hmmm

[Mahamud Pelpuo @Pelpuo91]

@Sanchooo10 We are grateful with all that you did for us @Sanchooo10

[Bright Simons @BBSimons]

*Newsfile Summary: the BNC/NSB Summary*
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For those who didn't watch Joy's Newsfile this morning or prefer to read than to watch, here are the highlights.

1. The new govt in Ghana is prosecuting the former head of one of Ghana 3 core intelligence agencies, the NSB.

2. The charge is that he took $7m from the NSB's (the BNC) budget to buy spyware from Israel. He made a down-payment of $1.5m and diverted the rest to buy real estate, luxury cars, and other stuff. For his and his family's comfort.

3. The $7m was first moved to a company given an identical name to the official intelligence agency, BNC. It was named BNC Communications Ltd. The Directors are the Head of the former BNC being prosecuted and his wife. The sole shareholder is a company called Advantage Solutions linked to the same family. The listed ultimate Beneficiary is the wife.

4. The former Head says this whole prosecution business is as a result of a "ridiculous political drama". What he means is that the govt is in a silly haste to prove that ORAL (the new ruling party's signature anticorruption initiative) is working.

5. He - Mr. Adu Boahene (former NSB/BNC Boss) suggests that one of the ORAL taskforce members, celebrated investigative journalist, Raymond Archer, is on a frolic. He - Raymond - has cooked all this "nonsense" up just to aggrandise his own role in ORAL.

6. Feeling frustrated by what he decries as a media crucifixion by an Attorney General Department that he clearly has a very low opinion of, he has refused to cooperate during interrogations and written directly to the current National Security Coordinator to put a stop to the "circus".

7. To encourage the National Security Coordinator to think properly, the former NSB Boss has listed 10 covert operations that he says absorbed the $5.5 million he is being accused of stealing.

8. He says that a former National Security Coordinator who died from COVID in 2021 authorised the setup of a private account at UMB for the private company of which he and his wife are the only Directors (BNC Comms Ltd). He then suggests that after paying the Israeli spyware company, ISC, the $1.5 million, he proceeded to spend $5.5 million on 10 other national security projects.

9. The 10 named projects include:
A. ALPHA: A project 85% funded by China to install CCTVs across Ghana to fight crime and terrorism. Ghana borrowed the remaining 15% of the budget from Barclays.

B. Operation Calm Life: a long-running joint police-military program started in 2001 to fight armed robbery that has since been extended to land guards etc.

C. Operation Conquered Fist: a major military-led operation to bolster Ghana's ability to militarily dislodge any terrorists that try to infiltrate through the northern borders.

D. Various cash inducement schemes to get parliamentarians (MPs) to pass the NSB Bill that regularised and institutionalised the BNC into one of the three core intelligence agencies in Ghana.

E. Expensive big cars for two "aides" of an "Opposition Leader".

10. 5 of the ten projects listed by the former NSB Boss are big, well-funded, multi-year programs run by various security services. He suggests that somehow, at various points, he was digging into the $5.5m pot that he had been authorised to keep in the account of his private company to fund various expenses incurred in the 5 projects.

11. Since there are no direct transfers from the bank accounts of BNC Comms, the former NSB Boss' private company, to the military, police, or other security agencies, we can only assume that these payments came out of the gigantic cash withdrawals made from the account.

12. Even so, he does not explain why the ISC spyware project wasn't officially terminated and the $1.5 million retrieved if what indeed happened was that the security chiefs changed their mind about snooping on our WhatsApp chats and decided that bribing MPs to tame them was more important.

13. In fact the evidence will show that just like the NSO project which landed the former Deputy National Security Coordinator in jail, the ISC was not officially terminated and the company continued to chase the work.

14. The evidence will also show that ALPHA had over $230m of Chinese and Barclays money to play with. The budget and rollout were high priorities of the past govt which procured large quantities of CCTVs to drive the project forward. Official expenses at the same NSB map to various aspects of ALPHA. There was no black op issue here. The project was openly discussed in Parliament. Its budget wwas approved by Parliament and reports shared with all key stakeholders.

15. If the suggestion here is that MPs had to be bribed to get the loan through, why would any National Security Coordinator worth his salt use a company easily traceable back to National Security? That would be the dumbest national security ever.

16. But even if we take any of his claims at face value, and accept that Ghana's national security establishment is that dumb, why were these operations not approved by the National Security Council as required by law, and requisite updates made to authorised expenditure? Because had that been done, those changes would be all over the top of the government. The President and Vice are Chair & Vice Chair of the National Security Council (NSC). Various top ministers, from defence and interior to foreign and justice, are members of the NSC. Furthermore, budgetary changes of this massive magnitude would require a whole chain of correspondences. The current President and his Attorney General wouldn't miss that.

17. But MORE IMPORTANTLY, the former govt which promoted Mr. Adu-Boahen to the pinnacle of his career would have many of its functionaries, from various ministers that served in the NSC to Presidential Staffers that facilitated the President's daily NSC Secretariat briefs in the know, intimately, of so many substantial changes to the scope and budget of so many vital and sensitive operations.

18. So far, no one has been able to produce even a single record of NSC, Cabinet Office (the ex officio secretary to the NSC), or National Security Ministry attesting to these major changes to activities and budgets requiring one security chief to be carting millions of cedis from various banks to distribute in cash. Not one. In fact, when I suggested to someone versed in these kinds of operations that the NSB chief was bringing sacks of cash to drive ALPHA and various operations, he laughed and suggested that the official bank accounts and cash imprest machinery of National Security are far more secure and discreet than anything a commercial bank could offer.

19. It has been conceded that if National Security had a need to pose as a private company to discreetly interact with private companies without their knowledge, then using commercial banks would make sense but even then it would be inconceivable to use companies so easily traceable to National Security. In this case, the projects listed are actually National Security projects and cash was the medium!

20. We now have to grapple with the bizarre theory that to pay allowances to soldiers, bribe MPs, or import CCTVs, the entire National Security Ecosystem of at least 20 agencies and with a collective budget exceeding a billion dollars needed the longsuffering former NSB/BNC Boss to open a new company in the same name as that of the agency he runs, transfer money meant for spyware into this shell company, send his wife to go and withdraw large sums thereby attracting all kinds of attention, and then go around disbursed this cash to MPs, soldiers, police and whoever. Truly astounding narrative!

21. Of course, and of the nearly 100 people who would have come into contact with any of this stuff, from auditor general personnel, who by law audit all national security agencies; top MPs at various Parliamentary committees; at least 9 top Ministers in both the past and present administrations; and presidential nd cabinet staffers of various high ranks, the only correspondence even remotely touching on BNC, the private clone, without even explaining any of these bizarre incidents, is that of the one security chief who died during COVID. 😳

22. We also have to grapple with the fact that despite the existence of specialised intelligence agencies for the kind of black ops that involve compromising, influence, manipulation etc., eg. The NIB (formerly BNI), someone still felt that that right organisation to handle these programs was the one established purposely to focus on advanced communications, hacking, electronic snooping, etc. that was best suited for this.

23. What is worse, BNC/NSB was really bad at one of its core tasks: providing Internet services to the intelligence and security community. Programs like the Case Tracking System which requires various actors in the justice delivery chain to log into a centralised platform have suffered because too many professionals who depend on BNC/NSB's telecom network frequently can't browse effectively on it. Why would BNC/NSB shelve something core to its identity (from its beginnings in independence-era entities like the Central Telecommunications Laboratory) like eavesdropping on calls and text messages and pump the money instead into Operation Conquered First to tackle violent Jihadists? When the BNC was set up in 2007, that was its express mission.

24. At any rate, none of this matters too much.

A. The National Security Coordinator operates at the beck and call of the Minister for National Security. The Minister must report evert operation to the National Security Council. What ever a conveniently dead NSC said doesn't overcome this trite fact.

B. In fact, under Ghana's Public Financial Management laws, not even the National Security Council can order for new bank accounts for official uses without asking the Controller to issue approval, even if only as a formality.

C. Funds released that cannot be used for budget purposes cannot simply be redirected without informing the fiscal authorities.

25. What the former BNC/NSB Boss is trying to present in mitigation is itself so blatantly illegal that it is hard to understand if his defence is truly being constructed with the aid of legal counsel.

26. What surprised me on Newsfile was the claim that somehow the facts presented won't make much of a difference in a Court of Law. In fact, it is facts like these that will drive much of the proceedings in court.

27. I was also very surprised by the claim that the former spy boss was free to own loads of property because he could be moonlighting or running ventures alongside his full-time security and intelligence role. Seriously, are Ghanaians ready for a country where serving security chiefs would be competing with business rivals on that highly unlevel playing field? The former spy boss for instance is connected to Advantage Solutions a company which does a lot of business in the telecom sector. Yet, the NSB's main focus has been on telecoms, too. Conflicts of Interest are simply not manageable in such a crazy situation.

28. All in all, the recent memo sent from the former spy boss to the National Security Coordinator is irrelevant since at the heart of the prosecution case is the assertion that the funds diverted from the NSB to the BNC private entity have been meticulously traced to patently non-security uses in the real estate and luxury automobile transactions. It is a closed loop so to say. Whatever ELSE National Security may be doing has nothing to with the real estate and fast car assets into which funds from Ghana's NSB have been pumped.

29. So far, it doesn't appear that people understand the fully gravity of a case like this where we are faced with the worrying prospect of the head of a major intelligence officer having exposed the organisation's susceptibility to extortion by all kinds of people who collect such vulnerabilities precisely to explore them against weakly managed nations.

30. This is a crazily serious issue, but that is what passes for boring fare around these parts nowadays.

Video of my remarks here:

https://t.co/1nipg1uKHw

[Mahamud Pelpuo @Pelpuo91]

@Yomiview 2000 naira

[#TV3GH @tv3_ghana]

How can you sell alcohol and be in debt? – President Mahama wonders why GIHOC Distilleries should make losses

#TV3GH

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[Mahamud Pelpuo @Pelpuo91]

@NtimFordjour @UN Even the UN and International community demand investigations into these heathy allegations of yours, they are not going to provide evidence because they didn’t make any allegations but you did. So please wonourable do the wonourable thing by collaborating.

[Mahamud Pelpuo @Pelpuo91]

@char_osei @shotpicturesgh A woman of competence

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@joyce_bawah Wishing you a happy birthday Ma’am @joyce_bawah

[Mahamud Pelpuo @Pelpuo91]

@joyce_bawah That's a good call, ma'm

[Mahamud Pelpuo @Pelpuo91]

RT @JusticeSremSai: I know you, wonderful people 🤪, don’t really like reading, so let me help you with a summary of the 125-page judgement…

[Mahamud Pelpuo @Pelpuo91]

@ChelseaIoanArmy This is the kind of player you sacrifice for Chilwell

[Mahamud Pelpuo @Pelpuo91]

This one of the reasons I don’t trust this current Chelsea manager, Poch because he cannot spot the talent in players like Maatsen. Maatsen is a LB but Poch decide to deploy him as LW or LM or LCM or even CAM which he struggled a bit yet proved that he’s the talent

[CFCDatro @CFCDatroo]

Incredible assist from Maatsen yesterday. What a player bruv, stunning. Mad how he was treated here

[Mahamud Pelpuo @Pelpuo91]

@AdjoaDaizya Hmm. Think critically about the speech.

[Dorcas Daizya 🇬🇭 @AdjoaDaizya]

But seriously, come to think of it, why would anyone choose @JDMahama over @MBawumia ? 🤷🏾‍♀️. After listening to #BawumiaSpeaks yesterday, I realized Dr. Bawumia’s vision is unmatched. I feel so bad for @JDMahama 🥺. I’m sorry @OfficialNDCGh ,I just can’t lie 😒. @NPP_GH will win🇳🇱