The Cover-Up

During the latter part of 2005 and through most part of 2006, I made the headlines of Ghanaian news bulletins over an allegation that I had bribed some senior police officers in a cocaine scandal. It was a very trying moment for me but I survived it and moved on with my life. However, over the years since the incident occurred, I have pondered from time to time on documenting my side of the story which was rejected and twisted because of a grand cover-up scheme in which I labeled an informant and consequently sacrificed as a scapegoat. But the time has come for me to publish my story and I do so in exercise of my fundamental human rights. This is a testimony and I want the world to hear of it. It would be a source of encouragement for others that no matter the struggles you find yourself in, God would see you through and give you a testimony. I am very certain some individuals will come out and deny some of the things I have said in this book. Of course, it is their right to do so as it is my right to tell my story. In spite of the vilification I was subjected to and dangers I was exposed to all because interests and public images of some big people had to be protected while I was sacrificed as a scapegoat, I survived to tell my story. I could have been murdered because of the public claim that I was an informant. And I could have been jailed (possibly for nothing less than 10 years) for allegedly being an accomplice in trading of narcotic substances. I would have suffered the same fate like many innocent people who go to prison because they were framed and could not defend themselves. I know there are many people in prison who are innocent but have been jailed due to cases like this just to protect the images of the powerful men and women in the country. I tell this story so that no one goes through the kind of injustice I went through. To understand how I ended up as a scapegoat in the cocaine case, it is crucial to appreciate, through the chapters of this book, how I evolved as a person, starting from my early years in Bongo and how my life's journey brought me to Accra.