Legal practitioner Theophilus Dzimega Jnr has raised concerns about the legality of a recent search conducted at the residence of the former Governor of the Bank of Ghana.
Speaking on GHOne TV, he questioned why security operatives disabled cameras before carrying out their operation.
“If you say the search was legal, you had a warrant to do that. Why are you disabling cameras in his home before the search is done?” he asked in an interview monitored by MyNewsGH.
Dzimega suggested that the cameras themselves may have been a key reason for the search, as there were allegations that the former official had a camera linked to his previous office.
“It is alleged that the governor had a camera linked to his previous office and for which data is being transmitted to his home via the cameras,” he stated.
He further explained that if intelligence officers were conducting a search, their first priority should be to seize any relevant evidence immediately.
“If someone comes to search here and finds my phone, intelligence-wise, the first thing you will pick is the phone. I may use the phone for something else,” he remarked.
Drawing parallels to previous cases, Dzimega emphasized that the pattern of targeting certain individuals was not new.
He cited instances of military officers who were dismissed or sidelined only to later assume high-level roles.
“We were in this country when there was a certain officer who was dismissed, but during another administration, he played high-level roles,” he pointed out.
According to Dzimega, the search and the narrative surrounding it appeared to be part of a broader strategy to discredit the individual involved.
“The idea about the Jakpa case is just them getting the hawks to circle around the guy and to make him feel that he shouldn’t work,” he asserted.
