The BNI has picked up the Managing Director of a quarry company in connection with pictures showing vehicles allegedly meant for the NCCE (National Commission for Civic Education), being branded with NDC colours.
Nana Adjei Baffuor, lawyer of the MD of Marbles and Granites confirmed to Joy FM’s Newsfile Saturday that their client Dr. Edmund Ayo Ani and two other security men were arrested Friday while he was at work.
They were picked up by personnel from the Police SWAT team and taken to the Cantoments Police Station. Dr. Ayo Ani is being accused of leaking some pictures, his lawyer says.
The pictures which has gone viral on social media showing at least 50 Mahindra 4×4 vehicles being sprayed in NDC colours at a mechanic shop near his office on the Spintex Road.
It has sparked another round of what some believed is an abuse of office and incumbency ahead of the general elections in November 2016.
From the angles of the pictures taken, it is being inferred that the photos were captured from the Managing Director’s company. The compound where dozens of Mahindra vehicles were kept for spraying,shares a wall with the security company.
The police invited the MD demanding that he completes a standard bio data form. But the Managing Director insisted otherwise, demanding to know his crime. He also refused to change into a dress meant for the cells. Following his refusal, BNI officials picked him up from the police station.
A Chinese woman who works with Dr.Edmund Ayo Ani was also picked up.
“What is their crime?” bemused veteran journalist Kweku Baako asked while the story which broke during the saturday news analysis show, Newsfile
The ownership of the yard holding the vehicles has been linked to the BNI. The vehicles were also moved away from the location Saturday dawn.
The NCCE, responsible for civic education, has over the years complained, it is under-resourced.
Source: myjoyonline.com
