National Security Coordinator, Lt. Col. Larry Gbevlo Lartey (rtd)
Posted on: www.dailyguideghana.com
By William Yaw Owusu
Thursday February 3, 2011
National Security operatives and eight macho men identified as land guards from Chorkor, a suburb of Accra, stormed the residence of Managing Editor of the Gye Nyame Concord, Alfred Ogbamey around mid-day Sunday apparently in search of a dog said to be at the centre of a dispute between an NDC foot-soldier and an NPP-turned-NDC electrical contractor.
The two disputants over the dog which got Mr. Ogbamey involved are the NDC man called Ebo Mamprobi and NPP turned NDC electrical contractor called Bello Turkson of Kurtson Engineering whose ‘Neapolitan Mastiff breed dog’ was stolen and suspected that the NDC foot-soldier might have stolen it and given to Mr. Ogbamey because he is also a breeder.
The operation was coordinated and led by Edward Anti Ofori aka Lion Jafi, a tall lanky Rasta-haired staff of Radio Gold, who according to both police sources and Mr. Ogbamey, insisted that the National Security staff were people seconded from the Secretariat to guard the privately-owned radio station.
In an interview with Daily Guide in Accra yesterday, Mr. Ogbamey said he was relaxing after returning from church when the two operatives and some suspicious machomen came to identify themselves as operatives who have reliable information that there was a stolen dog at his residence.
“I immediately demanded to see their IDs. The leader showed me a Temporal National Security ID but would not allow me to see his details on the card. I asked whether a dog had been reported stolen. They said yes. I asked why they had not come with a police they reported and questioned them as to why there was no police with them. I then noticed the macho-men some of whom l personally knew as landguards from Chorkor”, he said.
He said he told them he was unaware that the National Security Secretariat had added dog-searching efforts to their duty and insisted he would not allow them access to his house until he was convinced of their identity
According to Ogbamey they then alleged that he had stolen a dog, created a scene and began attempting to scale the walls to his home only to be held back by his dogs.
“Apparently they had come in a Jeep and three motor bikes, one of which was unregistered. On realising they could not have access to the residence; they called for back-up. At this juncture some youth in my area as well as relatives of mine who knew some of the landguards also quickly called for back-up leading to a stand-off,” Ogbamey, who is also a noted dog breeder said.
“Realising the situation could lead to bloodshed and on recognising me some of the landguards, including one I know as Tettey Chorkor, left.
He said he left and reported the matter to the Anyaa Police saying “at the Police Station, the Radio Gold reporter contradicted my claims that the people may not be national Security operatives and insisted that they were operatives seconded to guard Radio Gold who were there based on reasonable suspicion that I had a stolen dog with me.”
The Concord Editor told Daily Guide that he does not believe the National Security Coordinator, Lt. Col. Larry Gbevlo Lartey (rtd) was aware of Sunday’s operation and called for investigations into the matter.
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