Former Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta has been declared needed once more by the Particular Prosecutor, Kissi Agyebeng, for failing to seem earlier than the workplace as directed.
Mr.Ofori-Atta, who was to seem earlier than the OSP in the present day,June 2, however failed requested a digital session, citing medical causes.
His authorized workforce had earlier submitted documentation to the OSP and the Human Rights Court docket, explaining that he was present process therapy overseas and unable to journey.
Nonetheless, in his response, the OSP mentioned, Ken Ofori-Atta’s medical letter didn’t state that he was unable to return to Ghana.
Addressing the media in the present day in Accra, the OSP mentioned, he mentioned, Ken Ofori-Atta is a fugitive of justice after failing to seem earlier than them on.
In accordance with OSP, Ken Ofori Atta who’s a topic of a prison investigation, can not select how he must be investigated.
He additional disclosed that,“We wish him right here bodily, and we insist on it. A suspect in a prison investigation doesn’t decide and select how the investigative physique conducts its investigations and the strategies appropriate to him and his comfort. We is not going to countenance this conduct, not on this case.”
In opposition to this backdrop, he declared Ken Ofori-Atta needed, including that an INTERPOL Pink Discover had been triggered for his extradition.
“This workplace has at all times requested his attendance, and we’ve got indicated clearly to him that we’re unwilling to waive it. If we have been amenable to taking any assertion from Ken Ofori-Atta in absentia, we’d have completed so in February, and never waited until June 2, 2025,” he famous.
The previous Finance Minister is going through probes for his involvement in contracts with Strategic Mobilisation Ghana Restricted (SML) for income assurance, points surrounding the Nationwide Cathedral undertaking, and different monetary dealings throughout his tenure as Finance Minister from 2017.
By Edem Mensah-Tsotorme
