Explosive! Jubilee House Stealing Petrol At Tema Port Using Rogue National Security Operatives

Serious war has broken out between two factions of the National Security Agency at the Tema harbour over Akufo Addo’s Jubilee House use of rogue National Security officers, led by Lt. Col Frank Agyeman, to steal tens of thousands of litres of petroleum from tankers at the offloading berths at the Tema Port, Whatsup News can report.

Investigations by Whatsup News indicate that Edward Asomani one of the deputy National Security coordinators may be involved in the mafia-styled petroleum theft by the Jubilee House. Incidentally, Asomani was personally appointed to the National Security by President Akufo Addo using his surjoin at the all-mighty Danquah Institute, (described as the unofficial agency of the Akufo Addo gov’t) as his trump card.

Asomani is a “boy” of Gabby Asare Otchere-Darko, the notorious cousin of President Akufo Addo who is believed to be the de facto President of Ghana because of his hold on the President.

According to memos from the National Security secretariat intercepted by Whatsup News, whenever shipping vessels come to discharge petroleum at the Tema Port, a band of National Security operatives invades the port; chase away the official customs officers and national security officers at the port and steal thousands of litres of petrol to an unknown location in Abelenkpe-Accra.

In a memo dated April 12, 2022, issued from the National Security liaison officer at the Tema Port, on April 9, 2022, a shipping vessel, MV CAP Formosa bringing petroleum products to Zupoil Limited berthed at the port and started discharging petrol into six huge tankers without notifying Tema port authorities or the National Security agents and customs officers stationed at the port.

Approximately 162,000 litres of petroleum worth some GHC 1.4 million were clandestinely loaded onto the fuel tankers with registration numbers: GC 4037-21, GN 999-20, GN 574-21, GM 1704-14 and HW 999-18.

After they were filled up, the tankers were led away without going through the Tema Oil Refinery (TOR) as the standard procedure requires. This means that the circumvention of port authorities and TOR will result in Ghana losing several hundreds of thousands of Ghana cedis in import duties that should be paid by Zupoil.

“No customs officer from (TOR) was detailed to officially escort the products (tanker) for duties to be paid. The Customs at TOR were not officially aware of the evacuation of petroleum products from MV CAP FORMOSA (Vessel)…,” the intercepted memo from the Tema port read.

The band of dirty security agents that spirited the stolen petroleum away were led by Nana Osei-Tutu, a notorious character who is currently serving as the Director of the Signals Unit and Emergency Response Unit of the National Security.

He takes instructions from Lt. Col. Frank Agyeman, the man secretly working as the Director of Operations at the state spy agency who was supposed to have been relieved of his post following his brutal assault of CITI FM’s Caleb Kudah.

According to the overwhelmed National Security liaison office at the Tema Port, when Osei Tutu was confronted about the illicit petroleum evacuation, he and Lt. Col. Agyeman denied knowledge of the theft and ordered the arrest of the port security agents questioning the illegal petroleum evacuation. But the agents reportedly fled.

Afterward, “a team of armed soldiers dispatched by Col. Agyeman arrived at Berth 12…,” the memo read, adding that the whole operation was simply rationalised as “Orders from Above”.

Apparently, the smuggling of stolen petroleum under the auspices of the Jubilee House has been ongoing for a long time. Whatsup News has intercepted another memo from the National Security secretariat which indicates that on February 26, 2022, another consignment of 162,000 litres of petroleum was intercepted by the same culprits, led by one “Mr. Darlington” from the “Blue Gate” office of the state spy agency.

It would be recalled that shortly after his assault of CITI FM’s Caleb Kudah, the Jubilee House through the National Security Ministry claimed Col. Agyeman had been relieved of his position as the Director of Operations at the National Security, and that he had been posted to the 64th Battalion of the Ghana Armed Forces.

However, unbeknownst to the public, this was a ruse, as Col. Agyeman continued to maintain his position at the National Security till date.

Similarly, the Minister of Information has in December 2020 issued a statement from the Jubilee House that Osei Tutu had been interdicted after he slapped in Ashaiman, an Army Officer, Warrant Officer WOI Mashud Salia.

However, insiders tell Whatsup News that because of his closeness to the Jubilee House, Osei Tutu was only asked to go cool off at a luxurious location for a few months, after which he was moved from the Bureau of National Investigations (BNI) to a more lucrative position at the National Security Secretariat.

Meanwhile, recently, the National Security Ministry announced that it had withdrawn its operatives from the Tema Harbour, as a response from the Economic Management Team “ for a rationalisation of the number of security agencies involved in physical inspection at the port.”

It is believed that this withdrawal has a lot more to do with the turf war going on at the Tema Port between factionalised security operatives than the official version that they needed these agents to attend to the threat of terrorism in Ghana.