The Chairman of Parliament’s Defence and Interior Committee, James Agalga, has noted that no Member of Parliament (MP), received GH₵960,000 in bribes to aid the passage of the National Signals Bureau Act, 2020 (Act 1040).According to the Minister the claims are “spurious,” “baseless,” and “an act of desperation.”His remarks is in response to claims made by former ex-Director General of the National Signals Bureau, Kwabena Adu Boahene, in a memo to the  Auditor General (A-G).The NIB boss' allegation comes at the time, where he is facing 11 counts of offences, including stealing, money laundering, defrauding by false pretences, and wilfully causing financial loss.However, Agalga has indicated that Adu Boahene had no involvement with the Bureau, as at the time the Act was passed in 2020.He questioned how Adu Boahene could have been have made such payments to the committee when he assumed office in 2021.“At the time of the passage of Act 1040, Hon Seth Acheampong was the Committee Chairman and I served as the Ranking Member,” Agalga noted. “The National Signals Bureau, which Mr. Boahene later headed, did not even exist when the bill was being considered.”He noted that, during the legislative process, the committee solely interacted with the then Minister for National Security, Albert Kan Dapaah, and the late National Security Coordinator, Joshua Kyeremeh.“The committee had nothing to do with Adu-Boahene during the passage of the Act and therefore could not have received any money from him,” Agalga emphasized.

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