By: Franklin ASARE-DONKOH
The Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) has said it will be filing disclosures in the case involving the Chief Executive of the Northern Development Authority (NDA), Mr. Sumaila Abdul-Rahman, its Deputy Chief Executive (Operations) Mr. Stephen Yir-eru Engmen, and Deputy Chief Executive (Finance and Administration) Mr. Patrick Seidu, and the Chief Executives of A&QS Consortium Limited, Mr. Andrew Kuundaari who have been charged for conspiracy to, directly and indirectly, influence the procurement process to obtain an unfair advantage in the award of a procurement contract.
This was contained in a tweet by the OSP. “PROSECUTION TO FILE DISCLOSURES BY APRIL 18, 2023. CASE MANAGEMENT CONFERENCE HAS BEEN FIXED FOR MAY 2, 2023 WITH THE POSSIBILITY TO OPEN THE PROSECUTION’S CASE THAT SAME DAY.”
END.— OFFICE OF THE SPECIAL PROSECUTOR-GHANA (@OSPGHANA) APRIL 4, 2023
The OSP on Tuesday, April 4, 2023, hinted that it has filed 11 new charges against the accused persons.
The four accused persons have all been admitted to bail to the sum of Ghc 2,000,000.
“…upon the following conditions: (1) submission of passport to the registry of High Court. (2) Not to leave the jurisdiction without informing the court and (3) each accused person to produce 2 sureties with an undertaking to pay the bail sum of Ghc 2, 000,000.
The four persons earlier appeared before the High Court Criminal Division, Tamale on Tuesday 31st January 2023.
This followed the OSP’s publication of its Corruption Report on its investigation into the activities of the Northern Development Authority, pursuant to Reg. 31 (1) (g) of L.I. 2374.
