The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) was literally on fire last Friday when three top officers of the organization fore into themselves with allegations and counter allegations of corruption. Flt Lt Kutsienyo (rtd), the Assistant Director in charge of Administration publicly accused the acting SFO Director, Theophilus Cudjoe of inefficiency and corruption.
Mr Tetteh Mensah, Assistant Director in charge of Investigations also stormed into the controversy and accused Flt Lt Kutsienyo of fraudulently acquiring a NIVA belonging to the SFO.
On Thursday, Mr Cudjoe and his agents locked up Flt Lt Kutsienyo’s office for refusing to be interdicted. Flt Lt Kutsienyo also got the offices of the Acting Director and two others locked.
In an interview, Flt Lt Kutsienyo said “We have eight graduates working here but this man has brought in a lady with a Diploma and has surprisingly made her the Senior Controller. This woman does not do anything. She just sits in the office, eat kenkey and smoke”
Flt Lt Kutsienyo said he acquired the vehicle in question through auction and has duly paid for it. He said the Acting Director wrote to him asking him to proceed on leave which he rejected since he (acting director) was not the rightful person to do so. He said the Bureau of National Investigations (BNI) subsequently invited him on the matter.
Flt Lt Kutsienyo said at one time when he was going through some memorandum to enable him reply the Director’s memo, his office was locked up preventing him from doing his work.
Mr Tetteh Mensah, Assistant Director, Investigations, on his part said even though the NIVA vehicle was auctioned at the cost of ?800,000, Flt Lt Kutsienyo clandestinely offered only ?400,000 for it “which is criminal”.
He said Flt Lt Kutsienyo’s office was locked to force him to stay away from the office since he had previously threatened them, especially the acting Director. “We locked his office because his posture did not indicate that he was prepared to do what was expected of him”.
