An NDC lawmaker says Dennis Miracles Aboagye’s arrest followed his refusal to honor an EOCO invitation over fraud allegations tied to his former government role, a claim the NPP disputes.
Akwatia MP Bernard Bediako Baidoo, speaking on Adom TV’s Badwam program, said Aboagye is being investigated over alleged fraud connected to his tenure as former Executive Secretary of the Inter-Ministerial Coordinating Committee on Decentralization. He argued that public officials have an obligation to answer such invitations, and that refusing one can justify an arrest. “We must all know that once you have served in a government,” he said, describing accountability as something every former official should expect.
Bediako was careful to separate the allegation from a verdict. He said he was not declaring Aboagye guilty, only that an investigation was underway, and urged the public to withhold judgment until it concludes. He pointed to similar arrests under the previous NPP administration, including cases where officials cited ill health, as evidence that such actions are not unprecedented.
His account directly contradicts what NPP National Organiser Henry Nana Boakye has said publicly. Boakye maintains Aboagye received no invitation from EOCO and was never informed of any wrongdoing before his arrest at the airport, a version the NPP has used to demand his release or formal arraignment before a court.
The dispute echoes comments Aboagye himself made in May, when he pushed back on the idea that being invited by EOCO or the Bureau of National Investigations implies guilt, arguing that every former government official should expect to answer questions about their time in office and that an invitation alone does not make someone a criminal.
Bediako said EOCO was expected to issue a statement clarifying whether an invitation had in fact been sent to Aboagye and ignored, a detail that would settle the central factual disagreement between the two accounts.
