According to Captain Smart, the morning show host at Onua FM, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo was once saved from a painful death by him.
The journalist, whose full name is Blessed Godsbrain Smart, said during a segment about his recent arrest on the Thursday, October 20 episode of his show that he realized the night of his arrest that he is much more significant than the President.
He claimed that despite the heavy traffic at rush hour, he sent a dispatch rider to accompany them to the NIB office in Kanda so they could be questioned.
While describing his experience on television, he questioned how one Captain Smart could be allowed a presidential bodyguard.
The statement made by Captain Smart that ultimately resulted in his detention was, “The presidency is participating in galamsey.”
The’security apparatus’ aims to terrify journalists, but they can’t with me. They ought to go and question Kan-Dapaah, Addo Kufuor, J.A. Kufuor, or even Nana Addo, who I saved from certain death in 2006 had it not been for me. Ask him what transpired on our drive back to Accra after we had taken him to his hometown of Kibi. You all have illnesses; ask Akufo-Addo; he will tell you; I saved Nana Addo’s life.
“After he told him that he would have given me one of his daughters, ask Akufo-Addo. That time, Gabby Asare Otchere-Darko was in London sweeping the streets,” Captain Smart added.
He warned that nobody should worry him because he knows where he came from and where he is going.
“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…,” Captain Smart noted.
The Onua FM/TV morning show host was arrested by officials of the National Investigations Bureau (NIB) on Wednesday evening, October 19, while on his way home from work.
“BNI (now NIB) arrested Captain Smart earlier on his way home from the office(Onua 95.1 FM / @Onua TV premises)” a post by his media house, Onua TV on their Facebook page.
In the early hours of Thursday morning, October 20, 3news.com, a portal belonging to the Media General group reported that he had been released after he was granted bail.
According to the report, after his initial arrest, Captain Smart “was later found at the Interrogation Unit of the Bureau.
“He was there and then interrogated in the presence of some senior officials of Media General. He was later released on bail.”
