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The state under the Akufo-Addo government is prosecuting some officials of the erstwhile John Mahama administration for various alleged offenses that can lead to their imprisonment if convicted.
I’m 2019, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo said 21 officials of the NDC administration are currently standing trial for their alleged involvement in corruption and also causing financial loss to the state to the tune of GHS772 million.
He said the accused persons were being taken through the right legal processes.
He said this at the 2019 Annual Ghana Bar Association conference on Monday, 9 September 2019.
Trials of NDC Officials: Opuni Number One
Former CEO of the FDA and COCOBOD under the Mahama administration Stephen Opuni is facing dozens of criminal charges including abetment of crime (defrauding by false pretences), willfully causing financial loss to the State, contravention of the Public Procurement Act and corruption by a public officer.
In February 2017, the Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO) froze the assets of Dr Opuni as part of investigations into his period as CEO of COCOBOD.
Dr Stephen Kwabena Opuni between January 2014 and November 2014 is said to have abetted Seidu Agongo and Agricult Ghana Ltd to defraud COCOBOD to the sum of Gh₵43,120,000.
Three NDC MPs
Dr Cassiel Ato Forson, the Minority Leader and MP for Ajumako Enyan Essiam; James Gyakye Quayson, the MP for Assin North and Collins Dauda, MP for Asutifi South.
On the other hand, James Gyakye Quayson is undergoing trial at the High Court in Accra for charges of forgery and perjury. These charges are in connection to alleged offences during the lead-up to the 2020 Assin North parliamentary election.
For Dauda, he together with four others have been slapped with 72 counts of willfully causing financial loss to the state, misapplying public property, issuing false certificates, and dishonestly causing loss to public property.
Sedina Attionu Tamakloe and MASLOC
Attionu, who is on trial for allegedly causing financial loss of GH¢90 million to the state during her tenure as the CEO of MASLOC between 2013 and January 2017, has failed to show up for the trial since October 2021, after being granted permission by the court to travel to the USA for medical treatment.
The ruling by the court was in accordance with Article 19(3a) of the 1992 Constitution which allows a court to try an accused who refuses to show up for trial in absentia.
Samuel Ofosu Ampofo Tape Case
Ofosu Ampofo is in court for a leaked tape in which he allegedly planned to commit crimes in the country and turn round to blame them on the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP).
Amongst the strategies on the leaked tape are the creation of a general state of insecurity in the country through kidnappings and arson, and verbal attacks on public officials like the Chairman of the National Peace Council, Prof. Emmanuel Asante, and the Electoral Commission Boss, Jean Mensa.
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