National Security Transfers Azugu

DSP Samuel K. Azugu has been transferred from the National Security Secretariat as the Commander of the SWAT unit, Citi FM has reported.

He has been moved to the National Operation Headquarters of the Ghana Police Service.

The transfer comes some three weeks after the assault of Citi FM journalist Caleb Kudah by some national security operatives within the enclave of the National Security Ministry for taking a video of some abandoned state-acquired vehicles within the MASLOC yard – a no-photography zone.

Following Mr Kudah’s arrest, seven well-armed security operatives barged into Citi FM’s premises at Adabraka to arrest Mrs Zoe Abu-Baidoo Addo, Caleb’s alleged co-conspirator, to whom he electronically forwarded the secret recordings via his mobile phone.

Mr Kudah claimed he was pushed, slapped and kicked in the groin by the security operatives when he was arrested.

Already, four operatives involved in the alleged assault – a military officer and three police officers on secondment to the National Security outfit – have been withdrawn and sent back to their mother units.

Lieutenant Colonel Frank Agyemang, the soldier, was subsequently appointed as the Commanding Officer of the 64 Infantry Battalion.