Dr. Palgrave Boakye-Danquah, the former government spokesperson on Governance and Security, has questioned Special Prosecutor Kissi Agyebeng’s declaration of former Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta as a wanted fugitive of justice regarding alleged corruption offences.
He argues that a fugitive is someone who has escaped jail after being condemned or convicted of a crime by a court.
Speaking on the matter on Rainbow Radio, he added that the proper fugitive is Sedina Tamakloe, the former CEO of the Microfinance and Small Loans Centre (MASLOC) who is currently hiding in the USA after being sentenced to a ten-year jail term for spending state resources.
According to the Security Strategist and Governance Expert, the Special Prosecutor is acting as someone who never took his legal education seriously.
He stated, “OSP is a lawyer, but he is behaving as if he did not take his law lessons seriously. A fugitive is someone who has escaped jail or someone who has been condemned or convicted. The proper fugitive he ought to go after is Sedina Tamakloe, the woman who has been sentenced to a ten-year jail term for spending state resources. She is now in the United States and has refused to come over to serve her jail term of hard labour. She is the fugitive who must be pursued. And so, if the OSP has left her and refused to go after, then he lacks understanding of his law profession and did not understand his lessons while in school.”
“This is pure national embarrassment. He is embarrassing the country. Do you know what the interesting thing is? We have become a laughingstock. There are some times that are done indoors. Where was diplomacy when this was being done? The next time you mention Ghana instead of talking about gold, the Black Star, cocoa, and oil, they will say, Your finance minister was a fugitive instead of misinformation?” he stated.
He argues, “The former MASLOC chief, Sedina Tamakloe, who was tried in absentia and given a ten-year jail sentence for corruption and corruption-related offences, should be designated a fugitive.”
