Govt. explains transfer of Peprah, others

Accra, Aug. 5, GNA - The government on Tuesday said it has had to transfer the two former ministers and a government official serving various jail terms to separate prisons in the country to forestall suspected collusion between them and Mr Charles Quansah, a convicted murderer.
Nana Akomea, Minister of Information, commenting on the transfer said the convicts were holding secret meetings with Quansah with the view to making him come out with the names of 15 members of government as his alleged accomplices.
The three are Alhaji Ibrahim Adam, former Minister of Food and Agriculture, George Sipa Yankey, former Director of Legal, Private Sector and Financial Institutions at the Ministry of Finance and Kwame Peprah, former Minister of Finance.
The Minister, who was briefing journalists in Accra, said that a lady lawyer was reported to be the convener of the said meetings between the three men and the convicted murderer in a bid to make him "proclaim that he was in league with the NPP over the murders".
Nana Akomea said at the meetings pictures were shown to Quansah to make it easier for him to identify and name members of government as accomplices.
"Luckily, the security has thwarted this most vile and diabolic intention," Nana Akomea said adding, "We are on top of the situation. We have all the information and will come out soon with the details." Nana Akomea said that in view of this, all former ministers and government official serving prison terms are going to be made to succumb to full prison regulations.
"Previously, because of their previous status, the three men were allowed to receive visitors regularly, wear their normal clothes. They were generally allowed a lot of latitude.
"However, all this is going to be stopped and they will be treated like all the others. They will wear prison clothes and be restricted to all the prison regulations."
The three men were convicted for causing financial loss to the state for their roles in the Quality Grain case.
They were convicted by an Accra Fast Track Court presided over Mr Justice Dixon Kwame Afreh, a Supreme Court Judge sitting as an additional High Court judge, for conspiring and causing 20 million dollars loss to the state in connection with the Quality Grain Project at Aveyime in the Volta Region.

Accra, Aug. 5, GNA - The government on Tuesday said it has had to transfer the two former ministers and a government official serving various jail terms to separate prisons in the country to forestall suspected collusion between them and Mr Charles Quansah, a convicted murderer.
Nana Akomea, Minister of Information, commenting on the transfer said the convicts were holding secret meetings with Quansah with the view to making him come out with the names of 15 members of government as his alleged accomplices.
The three are Alhaji Ibrahim Adam, former Minister of Food and Agriculture, George Sipa Yankey, former Director of Legal, Private Sector and Financial Institutions at the Ministry of Finance and Kwame Peprah, former Minister of Finance.
The Minister, who was briefing journalists in Accra, said that a lady lawyer was reported to be the convener of the said meetings between the three men and the convicted murderer in a bid to make him "proclaim that he was in league with the NPP over the murders".
Nana Akomea said at the meetings pictures were shown to Quansah to make it easier for him to identify and name members of government as accomplices.
"Luckily, the security has thwarted this most vile and diabolic intention," Nana Akomea said adding, "We are on top of the situation. We have all the information and will come out soon with the details." Nana Akomea said that in view of this, all former ministers and government official serving prison terms are going to be made to succumb to full prison regulations.
"Previously, because of their previous status, the three men were allowed to receive visitors regularly, wear their normal clothes. They were generally allowed a lot of latitude.
"However, all this is going to be stopped and they will be treated like all the others. They will wear prison clothes and be restricted to all the prison regulations."
The three men were convicted for causing financial loss to the state for their roles in the Quality Grain case.
They were convicted by an Accra Fast Track Court presided over Mr Justice Dixon Kwame Afreh, a Supreme Court Judge sitting as an additional High Court judge, for conspiring and causing 20 million dollars loss to the state in connection with the Quality Grain Project at Aveyime in the Volta Region.