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Former Lands Minister apologises for planting 'spying' device in office
Inusah Fuseini said that his clear conscience made him confess to putting the device in the office after the issue became public.
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Alhaji Fuseini has said that he installed the spying device retrieved from the office of the current Minister, John Peter Amewu.
He said that the device was given to him by one Haruna as a gift in his early days as Lands and Natural Resources Minister and that he ordered its installation subsequently to enable him to monitor what went on in his office at the time.
According to him, the hue and cry over the incident were not necessary as the device was not even fully installed.
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“It was not working. The installation was not completed,” he told Accra-based Starr FM.
But Nii Osah Mills, who had occupied the office before current Minister John Peter Amewu, said that it is unfortunate that Mr Fuseini did not inform him about the device.
“I used to work the whole day, sometime closed at 9pm or 10pm and certainly I feel almost naked in a sense,” he said.
Having heard about the device for the first time in the news, Nii Osah said: “I’m surprised, absolutely; if you were in my shoes you would be, too. This is not something we expected especially when someone, a colleague, planted it, which is very strange.”
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“I ought to have been told and have it removed. I don’t think it was fair that a former minister, a colleague, would plant a device and not inform me. Whether it was working or not, that is not the question,” he said.
Inusah Fuseini has since apologised to his successor.
“Let me take the opportunity to apologise to my successor as it was never intended and nobody speed or prowled on the office when I left office," Mr Fuseini said.
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He further indicated that his clear conscience made him confess to putting the device in the office after the issue became public.
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“If I had kept quiet it would take a lot of time before the security agencies can discover that I put it there.
“The device was in furtherance of protecting my own personal security in view of the implementation of policies that had to deal with raiding small scale mining sector of illegalities.
"That device has no capability and I am prepared to work with the National Security in detecting that and I feel it is my civic responsibility to disclose this," he said.
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