Captain Smart ‘missing’ from Nat’l Security custody

Popular media personality and Media General’s Onua TV/FM’s morning show host Blessed Godsbrain Smart, popularly known as Captain Smart have been reported missing following his arrest by National Security.

 3news.com report sighted by GhanaPlus.com said Captain Smart was nowhere to be found on Thursday, morning barely 12 hours after he was taken into National Security custody.

The report said the Onua Maakye host was detained by the state security shortly after an Accra Circuit Court granted him bail on Wednesday, February 2; however, he was nowhere to be found this morning when management to pay him a visit.

No record of him was found at the Ministries Police Station either.

The report noted the National Security explained, there was an order from above to bring Captain Smart to one of their secretariat.

“He was then caged for the night despite reportedly meeting the bail conditions,” the report noted.

“When top management of Media General, the mother company of Onua FM and Onua TV, visited the secretariat to visit the radio host, he was nowhere to be found”.

“Enquiries directed the team including Group Chief Executive Officer Beatrice Agyemang to the Ministries Police Station, where they were told he was not in the records to have been there,” the report explained.

His seeming disappearance, 3news.com said has now become a matter of concern Media General staff and management in particular.

Captain Smart faces charges of extortion and abetment to extortion

Captain Smart is facing two respective counts of charges of extortion and abetment to extortion. Both he has pleaded not guilty.

Meanwhile a private legal practitioner, Mr Abraham Amaliba has described his the media practitioner’s detainment by the National Security as a violation of fundamental human right.

“The conduct of the security agency is a violation of the fundamental human rights of the accused persons. Once the court granted them bail all that the security agencies needed to do was to place the two accused persons at the registry of the court and then go straight forward to inspect the homes of the sureties. If they had done that they would have returned in good time to ensure that they execute the bail bond.

“What they did was to go and be explaining to their bosses. That is not what the court said .Their bosses had nothing to do with what transpired at the court.

” The court is higher than their bosses and so, once the bail was granted it was for them to ensure the accused persons did not leave wherever they are sleeping today because by so detaining them, it is an affront to their fundamental human rights,” Mr Amaliba told News 360 on TV3 Wednesday, February 2.

Source: GhanaPlus.com