I want my car back – James Agyenim-Boateng cries out to ‘NPP soldiers’

Former presidential staffer attached to the office the Vice President under the outgone National Democratic Congress administration, James Agyenim-Boateng is asking that his personal vehicle which was confiscated by soldiers who “stormed” his house on Tuesday. Mr Agyenim-Boateng said the soldier had no search warrants and were lawless in all actions. Sharing CCTV footage of …

Former presidential staffer attached to the office the Vice President under the outgone National Democratic Congress administration, James Agyenim-Boateng is asking that his personal vehicle which was confiscated by soldiers who “stormed” his house on Tuesday.

Mr Agyenim-Boateng said the soldier had no search warrants and were lawless in all actions.

Sharing CCTV footage of the raid a day after it happened, he wrote on his Facebook page they searched his home for missing vehicles form the government pool.

Mr. Agyenim since then gave a daily update on happenings after the raid and confiscation.

In today, Friday February 10, 2017 post, the former aide to the Vice President posted an audio file in which he was requesting that his vehicle registered in 2012 be brought back to him.

“Three soldiers in uniform and plain-clothed security persons came to my residence. They were in two Toyota Land Cruisers, banged on my gate violently and I went out to meet them. I asked them what the early morning visit was all about. The plain-clothed person explained that they had come in search of missing state vehicles,” he said in his audio file.

“I asked him whether they had a search warrant [but] he replied in the negative. I asked by what authority then were they searching for the cars and he produced a laminated copy of the letter written by the Chief of Staff. I explained that that could not be a substitute for a search warrant; it did not operate as a search warrant. Be that as it may, particularly as I was a law-abiding citizen and I wasn’t keeping any missing vehicle and did not have any stolen vehicle in my custody, I let them in.

“I asked them whether they had an inventory, a list of the cars they were looking for, the make, the chassis numbers and registration plate [but] he said no they didn’t. Then I asked: ‘So how could you be looking for what you do not have, or what you do not know?

“Eventually, I let them in. At the end of it they drove away a vehicle that I have had since February 2012, and their point was simply that the vehicle was not in my name even though it was still in the name of the person who sold it to me. As we speak, I don’t have the vehicle anymore,” he added.

You can listen to the full audio below.

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