Retired Colonel Festus Aboagye has alleged that former Bank of Ghana (BoG) Governor, Dr. Ernest Addison, installed electronic surveillance devices in his residence to secretly monitor activities at the central bank.

His claims follow a recent search of Dr. Addison’s home by National Security operatives—a move that has drawn criticism from Minority Leader Alexander Afenyo-Markin, who accused security personnel of stealing personal items, including jewellery and money belonging to Addison’s wife.

Speaking in an interview with TV3, Rtd. Col. Aboagye asserted that intelligence gathered by the state indicated that the ex-Governor had wired his home with electronic monitoring devices linked to the Bank of Ghana.

"What is coming out, unless contested, is that there was intelligence, I’m speaking on what it is that I have checked, that former Governor Addison when I got social information, checked from a source within National Security, certain individuals within the National Security, that he has wired his place with what we call back door electronic devices," he claimed.

He added that the operation to remove the alleged surveillance setup was misinterpreted as an attack on Dr. Addison’s property.

"Since then, I have received multiple versions of it. He had devices in his house, wired to the Bank of Ghana, which enabled him to monitor what was going on. Monitoring is a very diplomatic word, this is spying, this is surveillance."

The retired military officer further argued that no former central bank head had the authority to conduct such surveillance on the institution.

"And the state has not authorised anybody in the form of a former BoG [Governor] to mount surveillance on the premises of BoG. The naked wireless was wired into devices. As far as I’m concerned, that was the objective of that search," he emphasized.

Dr. Addison and his legal representatives have yet to respond to the allegations.