More revelations have implicated Ghanaian
top actor John Dumelo accused of stealing a
government car worth millions.
Actor, John Dumelo
The truth has now been revealed about the
allegation brought against popular actor,
John Dumelo, as he has admitted to the
crime.
In a new report by DAILY GUIDE, Dumelo
was caught red-handed attempting to make
alterations to the mode and colour of a
brand new Toyota V8 Land Cruiser said to
belong to the state, apparently to keep it for
his personal use.
DAILY GUIDE reported that in the process
of trying to change the colour of the
vehicle, one of the police officers who led
the Eagle Eye SWAT Team and some
National Security operatives to retrieve the
vehicle from the spraying shop where John
Dumelo had sent the V8 vehicle, revealed
that the actor actually attempted to
influence them with cash so that they
would allow him to keep the vehicle.
“John Dumelo told me the car belongs to the state
but I should mention our offer so he sorts me and
the team out, because we are all young men just
like him. I said ‘no way’ because we are not
government auctioneers and that we are not ready
for such an arrangement to mention an offer and
let him keep a state car,” Abubro Kosua,
Deputy Commander for Eagle Eye SWAT
Team who actually led the operation to
retrieve the vehicle, narrated on Okay Fm
yesterday morning.
According to the radio station, several
attempts to contact Mr. Dumelo failed. The
actor told DAILY GUIDE when it broke the
story, “I will not comment on that incident.”
Since DAILY GUIDE broke the story last
Friday that the National Security operatives
and agents from Eagle Eye SWAT Team had
retrieved a V8 Toyota Land Cruiser from
John Dumelo while he was attempting to
make alterations to the vehicle, the actor
has declined granting the paper interview
for his part of the story.
He has, however, taken to social media to
explain that he actually bought the car in
question – a black-coloured Toyota V8 with
registration number GE 8118–16 and
chassis number JTMHVOJ2F4159829.
DAILY GUIDE reproduces below a
transcript of the blow-by-blow narration
Abubro Kosua gave to Kwame Nkrumah
Tikese on the Okay Fm morning show on
Tuesday. The interview was granted in the
Twi language.
Abubro Kosua: “We retrieved the car from a
spraying shop at Abelemkpe. When we got to the
shop, we realised John Dumelo had asked the
workers at the shop to dismantle parts of the car
and he had bought some new parts so they should
replace it to make the car look different. He bought
those new parts from Dubai.
This is strange because the car is a new car and
actually a 2016 model so why buy new parts to
replace equally new parts that have absolutely no
fault. The rubbers were even still on the seats. This
was a new car.
When we got to the shop, we had a hectic time
before we were allowed in. The sprayers said they
would never allow us inside until the shop owner,
their master, was around. Their attitude even made
us more suspicious. But we waited for over three
hours for the owner of the shop to come around.
He was at Prampram but we waited until he
arrived.
When he came, we used a GC-Net software to
check in whose name the car was registered, who
imported the car and other details. The sprayer
and workers there all saw the results that the
name and details that came from the check showed
that the car was for National Security. This means
it is a state car.”
Kwame Nkrumah Tikese : “ Is it true that
National Security cars are fitted with certain
gadgets which make them look different?”
Abubro Kosua: “True, but we realized those
gadgets had been removed and disconnected from
the car and he was actually changing the parts
and re-spraying the car to make it look different
and impossible for anyone to identify.”
A fter the GC-NET software had indicated the car
belongs to National Security, we asked the sprayer
to call John Dumelo and ask him to come over. We
wanted him to be there before we take any action.
When he came, we put the facts before him that
our intelligence report had told us the car he was
spraying belongs to the state and truly too, when
we checked the ownership with the software the
result showed it was a state car so why was he
spraying the car without informing the state and
how did he even get to use a state car in the first
place?
He said the car was given to him by the former
first lady, Lordina Mahama. So we told him that
should not be a problem at all because all we
would do is to ask the former first lady if she
indeed gave him such a car and what the
arrangements were.
Then John Dumelo changed the story and said he
actually bought the car from a company at the
Spintex Road by name Sivani and that he had done
part payment and was yet to cover the rest of the
amount. We requested that he showed us any
receipt or documentation as evidence of what he
was saying or any paper whatsoever to prove that
he bought the car.
Then he asked that he would speak to me in
private so he took me aside and asked me that I
should mention my offer so he sorts me and the
team out because the car actually belongs to the
state.”
Kwame Nkrumah Tikese: You mean John
Dumelo was attempting to offer you money
so you let him take the car?
Abubro Kosua: “Yes, that is so. John Dumelo told
me the car belongs to the state but I should
mention our offer so he sorts me and the team out
because we are all young men just like him. I said
‘no way’ because we are not government
auctioneers and that we are not ready for such an
arrangement to mention an offer and let him keep
a state car
At that point, I told him that our information
shows he actually has two of such state cars in his
custody – a black one and an ash one – so he
should let us know where the second one was even
before we decide whether to negotiate with him or
not.
John Dumelo’s response was that the ash V8 was
with his girlfriend who had travelled outside the
country and that he has no idea where she left the
keys.
I asked him to send us to where the girlfriend had
parked the ash coloured V8 so we could even tow
the car, but he said he himself was travelling to
the UK and that when he returns, he would send
us to where the other car was.
We asked the sprayer to fix back all the parts that
had been dismantled from the car and that we
were taking it away. He fixed some and left some.
We took the parts that had not been fixed back,
took the car keys and asked the sprayer and John
Dumelo himself to follow us so they would know
where exactly we were sending the car.
We did not want a situation where Dumelo would
get up one day and say he had no idea where we
took the car and that the car was his and tell a
different story. He said he would not follow us but
we should go with the sprayer rather. So on that
note, we left with the car from the spraying shop.
We drove straight to the Sivani Company on the
Spintex Road – the company John Dumelo claimed
he bought the car from. When we got there, we
went to the manager and explained the situation to
him and the fact that John Dumelo claimed he
bought the car for them and had not finished
paying.
The manager said John Dumelo had never bought
any car from Sivani. On hearing this from the
manager, I called John Dumelo on phone and told
him I was with the managers of Sivani and that
they had denied ever selling any car to him. So he
should let us know which person from Sivani sold
the car to him so we follow up from there.
I also told him he had the option of coming over to
sort it out with his Sivani people or speak on
phone, but he cut the line and truncated the call. I
called again and he truncated the line again. This
means he had failed the test and could not answer
the questions.”
Kwame Nkrumah Tikese: “If you claim John
Dumelo attempted to bribe you, why did you not
cause his arrest?”
Abubro Kosua: “You are right in saying his
attempt to bribe us should have been enough
reason for us to cause his arrest. Our focus was on
retrieving the car from him and getting him to
lead us to retrieve the other car. I am not a small
boy to take bribes from John Dumelo and let him
steal a state car.
That was our focus. We were interested in getting
him speak the truth so we get back the cars; so
our focus was not on using police force or doing
something else.”
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