On Wednesday, October 19, the National Intelligence Bureau (NIB) arrested Blessed Godsbrain Smart, also known as Captain Smart, an outspoken broadcaster with Accra’s Onua TV/FM.
The allegations that led to his detention include claims that President Nana Addo Danquah Akufo-Addo is involved in the illicit mining practice known as galamsey.
After being released from NIB custody, he appeared on his Onua Maakye program and claimed that he had saved the President’s life in 2006.
The President would have perished in the car on the way from Kibi in the Eastern region to Accra, the controversial broadcaster said.
“The so-called security apparatus wants to scare journalists; me [they can’t]. They should go and ask Kan-Dapaah, Addo Kufuor, J.A. Kufuor or even Nana Addo, who I saved his life in 2006; like he would have died like a chicken, ask him. Ask him that when he was taken to his hometown, Kibi, and we were returning to Accra, ask him what happened on our way. I saved Nana Addo’s life, you are all sick, ask Akufo-Addo, he will tell you,” he said.
He claims that he decided to help Akufo-Addo because he thought that, if elected, Akufo-Addo would do a better job of governing than President John Agyekum Kufuor.
“Ask Akufo Addo who saved his life in 2006, when you meet him ask him. When we came to Accra he was asking what I wanted and I told him that I don’t need anything. My responsibility is to make sure that you live because I believed in him from 2005…,” he emphasised.
Watch him speaking below:
Captain Smart responds to a series of political intimidations and attacks on him: "I saved your life, President Nana Addo."#OnuaMaakye pic.twitter.com/2MJMxTaHdO
— #OnuaTV (@OnuaTV) October 20, 2022
