• About Us
  • Contact Us
  • Photo Gallery
  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms of Use
  • ChannelOne TV
  • Infographics
Tuesday, July 15, 2025
Citinewsroom - Comprehensive News in Ghana
  • Home
  • News
  • Business
  • Sports
  • Opinion
  • Listen To CitiFM
  • Watch ChannelOneTV
  • Videos
  • Citi Verify
  • Elections
No Result
View All Result
Citinewsroom - Comprehensive News in Ghana
  • Home
  • News
  • Business
  • Sports
  • Opinion
  • Listen To CitiFM
  • Watch ChannelOneTV
  • Videos
  • Citi Verify
  • Elections
No Result
View All Result
Citinewsroom - Comprehensive News in Ghana
No Result
View All Result

Short c’ssion: I entered National Security after 3 weeks training – Double

Jonas NyaborbyJonas Nyabor
March 5, 2019
Reading Time: 2 mins read
Bright Ernest Akomeah, National Security Operative/Referred to as 'Double'

Bright Ernest Akomeah, National Security Operative/Referred to as 'Double'

ShareShareShareShare

A National Security personnel, Bright Ernest Akomeah, popularly known as Double, who was part of the group at the centre of the violence at La Bawaleshie during the Ayawaso West Wuogon bye-election says he was recruited into the country’s National Security Council in 2017 after completing a three-week training program.

He said before his recruitment; he was a mobile phone dealer at Kwame Nkrumah Circle in Accra.

According to him, his three-week training equipped him with skills in map reading, basic weapon handling skills among others and he was stationed at the VIP Lounge of the Kotoka International Airport.

Giving his testimony before the Emile Short Commission on Tuesday, Mr. Akomeah said he had been working with the national security for almost two years.

“I work as a national security operative…. And I have been doing that for almost two years…. Prior to working with the National Security, I was selling mobile phones at Kwame Nkrumah Circle,” Double said.

Asked by Counsel to the Commission, Eric Osei Mensah how he was recruited into the National Security Council, Bright Ernest Akomea told the Commission that “in 2017, I heard that National Security was recruiting, and I applied. I went in with my application… I went for vetting, and they took my fingerprint.”

He further said his three-week training encompassed various forms of security training including crowd control and pound-to-pound combat.

 “Yes, I went to Asutsuare for three weeks…We were trained in reading maps, how to speak on the GoTa, pound to pound combat and basic weapons handling… We were also given training in crowd control and handling pressure,” Double said.

While denying claims by the Member of Parliament for Ningo Prampram, Sam George that he fired gunshots, Double said he was rather protecting Sam George from the agitated crowd around the residence of the NDC Parliamentary candidate.

‘I was an NPP polling station chairman.’

Double, who had listed names of persons he claims he saw among the agitated mob around the parliamentary candidate’s house struggled to explain how he knew that the said individuals were private security persons of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC).

In answering questions by Prof. Henrietta Mensa Bonsu, Double told the Commission that he had encountered the persons he listed at NDC events as a polling station chairman for the New Patriotic Party.

–

By: Jonas Nyabor | citinewsroom.com | Ghana

Tags: DoubleEmile ShortGhana NewsSam George
ShareTweetSendSend
Previous Post

Huawei Y7 Prime 2019 review: Affordable, durable and stylish

Next Post

Police seek injunction to stop luxury car tax demo

Related Posts

Featured

Madina: Two suspects arrested for defiling 14-year-old girl

July 15, 2025
Featured

Clamp down on illegal mining kingpins – Coalition against Galamsey

July 15, 2025
Featured

GHS to roll out 24-hour services at CHPS compounds, polyclinics

July 15, 2025
Featured

Gov’t withdraws Military protection for unauthorized civilians

July 15, 2025
Featured

NPP’s National Delegates Conference won’t be postponed – Joseph Osei-Owusu

July 15, 2025
Featured

Akufo-Addo denies plot to delay NPP primaries and delegates conference

July 15, 2025
Next Post

Police seek injunction to stop luxury car tax demo

ADVERTISEMENT
Citinewsroom - Comprehensive News in Ghana

CitiNewsroom.com is Ghana's leading news website that delivers high quality innovative, alternative news that challenges the status quo.

Archives

Download App

Download

Download

  • About Us
  • Contact Us
  • Photo Gallery
  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms of Use
  • ChannelOne TV
  • Infographics

© 2024 All Rights Reserved Citi Newsroom.

No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • News
  • Business
  • Sports
  • Opinion
  • Listen To CitiFM
  • Watch ChannelOneTV
  • Videos
  • Citi Verify
  • Elections

© 2024 All Rights Reserved Citi Newsroom.