Quality Grain case adjourned to next year
Man dragged to court for inflicting wounds on wife
Quality Grain case adjourned to next year
Accra (Greater Accra) 21
December 2001 - The Fast Track Court has adjourned to January 8 next year the
Quality Grain case in which two former Ministers of State and three former
senior public officials are being tried for willfully causing financial loss to
the state. When sitting resumes next year, the prosecution will cross- examine
the first accused, former Agriculture Minister Ibrahim Adam who has completed
his defence.
He told
the court that he did not have any misgivings about the Quality Grains project.
He did not also think that government would incur any financial loss if it
guaranteed loans for the Quality Grain Company to establish the rice project at
Aveyime in the Volta Region.
Led by
his counsel, Adam said he introduced the CEO of the company, Julliet Woodard to
former Finance Minister, Kwame Peprah, the third accused, as a potential rice
farmer who had expressed her desire to invest in the country. Accused said they
discussed how the lady could get a foreign guarantee for loans, which she had
arranged with the Exim Bank in the US.
He told
the court that the company obtained government's guarantee for $7 million as
the first loan after an approval by Parliament. Adam said he was shortly after
appointed the Minister for Trade and was therefore, not at the Agriculture
Ministry when the additional $14 million was approved for the Company.
He
denied that he conspired with any of the accused persons and repeated that all
what he did for the company to establish the project was to implement a
government's policy. The other accused persons are, Dr Samuel Dapaah, Dr George
Yankey and Nana Ato Dadzie, all former senior public officials who have all
pleaded not guilty. –JoyFM
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Accra (Greater Accra) 21 December 2001 - Akwettey Kudoyor, a mechanic who allegedly inflicted cutlass wounds on his wife for using his deep freezer, was on Thursday arraigned before a Circuit Tribunal in Accra.
Kudoyor pleaded not guilty to causing unlawful harm and was granted a five-million cedi bail to re-appear on January 8.
Prosecuting, Police Inspector Emmanuel Boison told the tribunal chaired by Mr Imoru Ziblim that the complainant, Ms. Elizabeth Segle, lived with her husband at Dansoman. On October 8, Kudoyor told Ms Segle to stop using his deep freezer for making iced water to sell.
The accused also told his wife that he had a new lover and that he was taking the freezer to her. This led to a misunderstanding between the couple and Kudoyor slashed his wife's head and left hand with a cutlass.
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Accra (Greater Accra) 21 December 2001 - A Sierra Leonean businessman was on Thursday remanded in prison custody by a Circuit Tribunal in Accra for allegedly defrauding a colleague of 10,000 dollars and 30 million cedis.
Alhaji Mohammed Kamara, who pleaded not guilty to defrauding by false pretences, will re-appear on January 8. The tribunal chaired by Mr. Imoru Ziblim heard that in 1998 one George Ottu Williams introduced Mr Jonathan A. Osekre, the complainant to Kamara as someone from Abidjan with a gold fortune.
He said Williams informed Mr Osekre that Kamara was looking for a partner to establish a hotel in Ghana and the complainant became interested and agreed to do business with Kamara. Kamara later made Mr Osekre to register a company called Jeddidal Ghana Limited and opened a foreign bank account.
The prosecution said Kamara and his stepmother afterwards collected 10,000 dollars and 30 million cedis from the complainant under the pretext of travelling to Abidjan to bring down 300 kilograms of gold. Mr Osekre never saw Kamara again and he made a report to the police.
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