Member of Parliament for Bolga East, Dr. Dominic Akuritinga Ayine states the superior court’s judgement on the NCA’s $4million scandal can not be supported by evidence.
Talking on Pleasure News’ Newsfile Saturday, Dr. Ayine who is the Chairman of Parliament’s Subsidiary Laws Committee reported no injuries in anyway experienced been brought about to the condition.
He spelled out that, “The judgment simply cannot be supported by the evidence, search at it this way if you’re conversing about the offense of leading to financial loss to the state…it should have been the good quality drain scenario where [Justice] Modibo Ocran built it obvious that it should be a condition in which the perform of the public officer in dilemma has wounded the condition financially.”
A former Director Basic of the Countrywide Communications Authority (NCA), William Tetteh Tevie, the former Board Chairman of the Authority, Eugene Baffoe-Bonnie and a former Nationwide Protection consultant coordinator, Salifu Osman have been handed jail phrases for their role in resulting in $4 million monetary loss to the condition.
Amongst the fees ended up thieving, working with community business for own gains, and willfully leading to fiscal loss to the condition with regard to the buy of a Pegasus machine value $4 million, to among other points aid in the combat from terrorism.
According to the Bolga East MP, the transaction for which the former NCA boss and other people had been jailed for was carried out in accordance to a signed settlement and there was no proof of wrongdoing.
“What damage has been prompted to the Republic of Ghana in this transaction? You see, there is a transaction, there is local business that is symbolizing an Israeli enterprise. And it is as a result of that nearby business that monies are transferred to the Israeli corporation.
“And so there was no arrangement that the Israeli enterprise be paid out instantly the 4million bucks so it should have been the regional organization receiving it as agent of the Pegasus and then supplying all those monies to the Israeli company.
“So the place is this when monies are getting compensated to an agent it is considered that the principal has acquired the funds.”