The statutory 30-day period for concluding the plea bargain in The Republic v Bernard Antwi-Boasiako & 2 Others (the Exim Bank trial) will end next week. I can confirm that we have not reached a plea agreement with the accused persons yet.
We look forward to closing our case in The Republic v Kwabena Adu-Boahene & 2 Others next week. In the case, the principal accused person is being tried for stealing Ghc 49.1 million from a government bank account.
Our hard working state attorneys and EOCO investigators have already placed the following body of evidence before the trial court:
▪️Evidence that the Ghc 49.1 million is a Government of Ghana money in a government agency bank account. No dispute in court over its source.
▪️Evidence that the principal accused person created a fresh bank account (on the day of the first cheque) in the name of his private company to mimic the name of a government agency.
▪️Evidence that the principal accused person carefully diverted 3 cheques which were meant for a government agency into the private bank account.
▪️Detailed evidence of how, within 6 months, the principal accused person spent each pesewa of the money, buying houses in prime locations and luxury cars for himself, family and friends.
▪️Purchase receipts, bank statements, ownership documents, containing dates, amount, names, etc., evidencing the bank transfers, purchases and payments, etc.
▪️Evidence that the accused persons initially denied knowledge and ownership of some of their own companies, bank accounts and the luxury properties, but later, upon confrontation, admitted them.
▪️Evidence that the principal accused person deliberately misled the public when he said that he used the Ghc 49.1 million for fund political campaigns in 2024.
▪️Evidence that the principal accused person was forced to close that bank account when his own bankers flagged the bank account as “suspicious”.
▪️Evidence that the equipment which the principal accused person claimed he was going to use or used the money to buy was never bought.
▪️ Evidence of forged purchase receipts for the said equipment - in an attempt to conceal the fact that the equipment was never bought.
We believe that justice will be served to both the accused persons and our beloved Republic at the end of the day.
I completely believe in due process.
I completely believe in rule of law.
I completely believe in prosecutorial fairness. Etc.
But it is really nauseating when elites talk about such stuff only when one of their own is in the grip of the law.
Meanwhile:
For small people, used iPhone 12 (~3k GHS) = 10 years in jail.
For BIG PEOPLE, 100s of millions of GHS = nolle prosequi.
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Per Erastus Asare Donkor, some of the very entities contracted to reclaim degraded lands are allegedly engaging in galamsey to raise money for the reclamation work itself. #JoySMS
Few years ago, President Mahama alleged that the NPP used spiritual means to prevent Ghanaians from seeing the good work he did. He credits that as one of the main reasons he lost in 2016.
Today, under him, a woman has been sentenced to jail for basically saying the same thing.
That "second independence" post becomes the most stupid thing ever said with each passing day. In your second independence they want to bring back tribunals, they're giving media blackouts for parliamentary proceedings. People are going to jail for speech.
so bawumia should have directed the police and ag to prosecute and seek the imprisonment of anyone who said he drank alcohol and ate pork?
this is really what you people are willing to accept?
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The lady who criticized president Mahama has been sentenced to 1 year imprisonment..NPP tenure gave birth to Bongo ideas , Annan Perry , Fanti boy, Ralph I hope we’ve learned from NDC
do you know how insane this is? imprisoning someone for alleging this? something first said by an ndc financier by the way.
but freedom of speech is somehow back?
*GALAMSEY ONGOING IN ABESEWA FOREST!* 🚨
The President John Dramani Mahama must act NOW!
Sack DCE for Ahafo Ano South East, Ibrahim Yamba Nelson, over alleged involvement in illegal mining.
MP Yakubu Mohammed* must also account for taking money from galamseyers.
fix the system.
heads must roll at the municipal assembly. these DCEs and MCEs get away with too much. how do you watch this happen?
fix the system. let the law work. see people pattern up.