Mr Justice Dixon Kwame Afreh, a justice of the Supreme Court, on Monday adjourned to May 27 the hearing of the Quality Grain case in which five former government ministers and government officials are charged with conspiracy and causing financial loss to the state.
Mr Afreh adjourned the case during the sitting, which lasted for about 10 minutes. The accused persons had been appearing before the Fast Track Court (FTC) presided over by Mr Afreh before it was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court and Justice Afreh himself elevated to the Supreme Court. The case was adjourned because of a review being sought by the government on the constitutionality of the FTC.
Those on trial are Ibrahim Adam, a former Minister of Food and Agriculture, Samuel Dapaah, a former Chief Director of the Ministry Of Food and Agriculture, Kwame Peprah, a former Minister of Finance, George Yankey, a former Director of Legal Sector, Private and Financial Institutions of the Ministry of Finance and Ato Dadzie, former Chief of Staff at the Presidency.
They have all denied the charges of conspiracy and causing financial loss of more than 20 million dollars to the state. The court had granted them self-recognisance bail. All cases on the FTC list have been adjourned sine die.
