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Rumor Mill of Tuesday, 13 July 2004

Source: GHANA PALAVER INTELLIGENCE

Is it true that ...

*As a result of the 'Ghana Palaver' exposes on the incompetence, naivet? and amateurism of the intelligence agencies especially in the Mariama Tula/Sulemana Jeremiah visa swindle deal and the latest botched attempt to get a UK visa for Mariama Tula by creating a false persona for her as "Mercy Amoako" and the subsequent "heavy-handed" "Front Page Comment" in our issue Vol. 10 No. 72 dated Tuesday, July 6 - Thursday, July 8, 2004, entitled "Intelligence Agencies Day of Shame in Ghana" in which we literally "educated" the intelligence capos on the ABC of intelligence operations, and also following his very messy handling of the Chris Asher Affair regarding his appearance before the National Reconciliation Commission (NRC) as well as his very poor performance in what was seen in intelligence circles as his battle of wits with former NDC intelligence capo Kojo Tsikata, National Security Coordinator Francis Poku has finally been diplomatically "sacked" from his job and appointed "Ambassador -in-waiting", a kind of Chinese-style upwards and sideways promotion in which you are appointed an Ambassador but you are never posted to any country, and that his position as National Security Coordinator has been taken over by Mr. Afari who has already assumed office at the Office of the President (Castle Annex), popularly known as "Blue House"?