Leading NDC MPs under 24-hour surveillance ?

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has targeted a group of young no-nonsense National Democratic Congress (NDC) minority Members of Parliament, the ‘BBC’ for ‘Bad Boys Company”, according to Palavar

According to the paper, the NPP, using the state security and intelligence apparatus has decided that in the run-up to the 204 elections, minority leader and MP for Nadowli, Alban Bagbin, minority Chief Whip, Doe Adjaho, Ranking Member for Food and Agriculture, Johnson Asiedu-Nketia and Minority Spokesman on Communications, John Mahama are “the bad boys” to watch.

“The four are therefore no longer free men. Their houses have been placed under 24-hour surveillance and they are followed by BNI operatives wherever they go.

Ghana Palaver sources inside the security and intelligence agencies have confirmed that the telephone lines of the four MPs are tapped. Their mobile phones have similarly been bugged,” the paper alleges.

According to the report, visitors to the homes of the MPs have reported noticing allegedly broken down taxi and other rickety vehicles parked in their neighbourhoods.

The paper says its investigations have revealed that the bugging devices, especially those for the mobile phones are usually installed in those vehicles, because to be effective, the bugging devices have to be within a certain radius of the target houses.

“Ghana Palaver has also learnt of a smear campaign planned to be waged against the four. This involves allegations of immorality and, in the case of those who have held ministerial office before, of financial impropriety. Reached for their reactions to these intelligence leaks, the four separately told the Ghana Palaver that the NPP can do their worst. They have not seen anything yet.”

Mr. Bagbin has been perceived as, as the paper puts it, “a constant thorn in the flesh of the NPP since he was elected minority leader. Only last week, his press statement calling for the interdiction and prosecution of Information and Presidential Affairs Minister, Jake Obetsebi-Lamptey for willfully causing financial loss to the state as revealed by the Auditor General’s report (which the ministers have dismissed any way) into the renovation of government bungalows created a storm in the NPP government.”

Doe Adjaho according to the paper has made the controversial Gulfstream Presidential Jet his special assignment and has been bashing the president for neither using it nor selling it.