Joy News investigations reveal there is a militia group within the New Patriotic Party (NPP), which appears to have the backing of government.
De-Eye Group.
Make no mistake. This is not a state security agency. And this is not a private facility. This is the Christiansbourg Castle popularly called the Osu Castle in Accra. And this is a training ground and headquarters of De-Eye Group, a militia group affiliated to the governing NPP.
Until 2013, the Osu Castle was the seat of government. Currently it is an Annex to the Seat of Government, the Jubilee House.
Four Ministers of state at the Office of the President are housed in this building: the Minister of state in charge Inner City and Zongo Development, Dr. Mustapha Hamid; Minister of State in Charge of Special Development Initiative, Hawa Koomson; the Minister of State in Charge of Planning, Professor Gyan Barfour, as well as Minister of State at the Office of the President, Rocks Bukari.
The Commission on the Creation of New Regions had their sittings here. And the Commission of Inquiry into the Ayawaso West Wuogon election violence holds sittings here.
But this is where the De-Eye Group, militia group affiliated with the NPP has been operating from in the past two years when this government took office.
The Commander of this group is Nana Wireko Addo, popularly known as ‘Choman’. The commander is former personal bodyguard of the President of Ghana, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo.
Joy News investigations have revealed that the group has two offices at this state building as the secretariat of the Group and another as the office of the Commander.
The Ministry of the Interior, which licenses private security agencies has also said the group is not licensed to provide any security services. Sources within the group, however, say De-Eye Group undertakes security operations in and outside Accra.
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