Court strikes out Ibrahim Mahama case

An Accra District Court has struck out the case of Engineers and Planners for their failure to pay the SSNIT contributions of workers.

The prosecutor for SSNIT, Leena Adoma Aboagye, told the court on Saturday 13 May that her superiors had instructed her to withdraw the suit as the company had paid the money.

But the lawyer for Ibrahim Mahama, Nancy Amarteifio, told the court Engineers and Planners paid the money before the summons were served on 13th April.

SSNIT dragged Engineers and Planners, CEO Ibrahim Mahama – the younger brother of former President John Dramani Mahama – and the company’s directors to court for failing to pay social security contributions of staff as required by law.

Officers at SSNIT had said that an inspection of the books of the company revealed that from February 2015 to July 2015, June 2016 to August 2016, and in October 2016, the SSNIT contributions of employees, amounting to GHS668,754.75, had not been paid contrary to the National Pensions Act of 2008, Act 766, which states that an employer is expected to pay social security on behalf of the employees at the end of every month.