Bright Daniels has been jailed for creating and operating a Facebook page to impersonate COP
Maame Tiwaa Addo-Danquah.

The convict is a Nigerian national who has already served seven years imprisonment at the Nsawam.

This time round, Daniels would be serving eight years imprisonment, as ordered by the Circuit Court presided over by Afia Owusuaa Appiah on May 11, 2023.

Daniels was charged and convicted on conspiracy to commit a crime and defrauding by false pretence.

The convict pleaded not guilty, and therefore, faced full trial.

COP Maame Tiwaa Addo-Danquah is not just a mere person but Executive Director of Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO) and former Director General of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service.

According to the Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Emmanuel Nyamkye, COP Mrs. Addo-Danquah is the complainant and the other accused person, Livinus Amadianaez Ugwu, is currently on the run.

The prosecuting officer told the court that Bright Daniels and Livinus Amadianaez Ugwu are both ex-convicts. He stated that Bright was jailed a term of seven years imprisonment at the Nsawam Medium Security Prisons.

He said in the month of April 2021, the complainant’s attention was drawn to a fake Facebook Messenger account created in her name “COP Maame Tiwaa Addo-Danquah” bearing her picture and same being used to solicit money from Police personnel under the pretence of c getting them slots to UN and AUMissions in Somalia and Sudan.

Interested police personnel who contacted the user of the said fake Facebook account were directed to pay money to the following mobile money number 0271701436.

One of the victims of the scam, Detective Chief Inspector Anthony Baffoe paid an amount of GH¢10.000.00 to the said mobile money number and the amount was subsequently withdrawn by Daniels.

The prosecutor said when the contact number was traced, it was discovered to be around Nsawam Medium Security Prisons in the Eastern Region.

He added that further investigations revealed the identity of user of phone number was Daniel and a search was conducted on him led to the retrieval of a Samsung Galaxy AOQ2 phone the convict uses to chat with Livinus as well as a Tecno feature phone that Detective Chief Inspector Anthony Baffoe money was received on.

DSP Nyamekye added that a forensic examination conducted on the devices revealed that the convict and Livinus conspired together to use the name and photograph of the complainant to collect money from Police personnel under the pretext of getting them a slot to travel to United Nations and African Union Mission in Somalia.

He added that investigations further revealed that Daniels acquired a sim card with the aforementioned number was used to receive money from their victims.

Daniels admitted the offence and after investigations, he was charged and – brought before the court.