Police CID Runs From MP's Docket

A businessman, who got the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Member of Parliament (MP) for Abuakwa South, Samuel Atta Akyea, arrested and criminally charged for fraud is now beside himself over the apparent refusal of both the Police Service administration and the Attorney General and Minister of Justice to prosecute the MP.

Mr. Joseph Adom, Chief Executive Officer of Adom Construction Company, on whose behalf Mr. Akyea acted as lawyer and reportedly defrauded the company, is shocked that state prosecutors have effective abandoned the case to die, two years after the lawmaker was charged for criminal offense.

With a screeching voice, Mr. Adom has decided to look up to his maker for an answer. He told The Herald “the Lord shall give me justice when the state fails”.

What is making Mr. Adom sad is that the police are looking on as Mr. Akyea has rather dragged him, a victim of theft and J. Adom Construction Company to court on a civil suit on claims that his legal fees had not been paid by the company.

Mr. Adom told The Herald that around 2003, he consulted Mr. Akyea of Zoe, Akyea and Co. for legal services with Akyea becoming the lawyer for J. Adom Ltd and also his personal lawyer.

Mr. Akyea, he disclosed, handled some cases which involved huge sums of money owed the company and himself, including a case, titled “J. Adom Ltd Vs. International Structures Group Ltd”, involving a whopping amount of GH¢78, 501,435.40 paid to Zoe, Akyea and Co Clients Account, on February 22, 2007, but Mr. Akyea unethically refused to inform him.

Again, another case involving J. Adom Ltd vs. Harry Sintim Aboagye, also involving an amount of GH¢66, 299.65, was paid by post-dated cheques in the client’s account, and again Mr. Akyea pocketed the money without his (Mr. Adom) knowledge.

Mr. J Adom, said he had tasked Mr. Akyea to conduct due diligence on some properties which he wanted to buy at the Airport Residential Area, but the Akyem Abuakwa South MP shockingly connived with a fraudster, one Joseph Krampah, and without seeking his clearance, looted the money to pay the fraudster an amount of US$60,000 and GH$155,000.

According to Mr. Adom, he became alarmed and therefore wrote to Mr. Akyea to formally terminate the legal relationship between them, and also requested him to handover documents in his custody before March 1, 2010. He said in the said letter, the company stated that “should you think we owe you any sums of money, submit your bills to us”. However, Mr. Atta Akyea replied in his letter dated March 10, 2010, expressing his shock when he received the letter from J. Adom Ltd.

Mr. Akyea admitted in his reply the significant role played by Mr. Adom, especially, when he started his political career and when he lost his grandmother and concluded by stating that he was not worried about the legal fees but rather was “concerned about losing such a great father” like him, Mr. J. Adom.

The MP stated that “once again I plead with you to exercise little patience and give me a second chance”, thus ended his letter. Mr. Adom averred that, unfortunately, Mr. Akyea has refused to hand over the documents belonging to him and J. Adom Ltd.

He reported the misappropriations of his monies by the NPP MP to the Police CID at its headquarters in Accra in March 2010 where Mr. Atta Akyea was arrested.

Upon his arrest, the MP quickly paid GH100, 000 to the police as part payment of the money he misappropriated, with a promise to pay the rest at a later date, but did not honour his promise, rather he sued the company for owing him legal fee services.

Mr. Adom disclosed that the civil suit against him by Mr. Akyea, who is a brother-in-law of the Chief Justice, Geogina Wood, is steadily ongoing at the court but the criminal case, for which Akyea has been formally charged, “waned and died down”.

He recalled how he helped the Akyem Abuakwa South, MP and his wife during his 2008 election campaign when he bought a Pick-Up vehicle for him, and also financed his grandmother’s funeral, and told The Herald “the Lord shall give me justice when the state fails”.