Another NPP MP named in EOCO investigation amid warrant to arrest Baffour Awuah
Another New Patriotic Party (NPP) Member of Parliament from the Ashanti Region has been named in ongoing investigations by the Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO) involving the Member of Parliament for Manhyia South, Nana Agyei Baffour Awuah.
According to TV3’s court correspondent, Joseph Ackah-Blay, the MP, whose identity has been disclosed in court, is a lawyer who represented a company involved in a debt recovery matter between SIC Life and a private company.
Joseph Ackah-Blay explained that the MP has been named in court and that investigators informed the judge that he is also under investigation in connection with the transaction.
He said the MP was a lawyer for the company that eventually settled the debt with SIC Life. According to the correspondent, while the Member of Parliament for Manhyia South, Baffour Awuah, represented SIC Life as a lawyer, the other MP also represented a company that was involved in the settlement agreement.
Investigators are reportedly alleging possible collusion involving the Member of Parliament for Manhyia South, the other NPP MP who acted as a lawyer in the transaction and the former Managing Director of SIC Life Savings and Loans.
According to the investigators, the alleged arrangement resulted in SIC recovering only five million Ghana cedis instead of the 14.8 million cedis it was expected to recover.
The investigators also reportedly questioned the legal fees paid in the transaction, alleging that nearly half of the recovered amount was paid as legal fees, despite an agreed fee of 15 percent of the 14.8 million cedis.
Speaking on TV3’s Daily Brief on September 30, 2026, Joseph Ackah-Blay said the identity of the second MP had been disclosed to the court and that investigators had indicated that his involvement forms part of the ongoing investigation.
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“We can only say for a fact that he is an MP from the Ashanti Region and a lawyer who was involved in this transaction, according to the investigators.”
Meanwhile, the High Court in Accra has granted the Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO) a warrant to arrest Nana Agyei Baffour Awuah, the Member of Parliament for Manhyia South.
The court granted the warrant after lawyers for EOCO applied for it on Wednesday, September 30, 2026.
According to the report, EOCO told the court that its officers had exhausted reasonable means of securing Baffour Awuah’s voluntary appearance in connection with the ongoing investigation.
The anti-graft agency argued that the arrest was necessary due to concerns that documents relevant to the investigation could be concealed, altered or destroyed.
EOCO also applied for a warrant to search for and seize documents considered relevant to the investigation, and the court reportedly granted that request as well.
The latest development follows a botched attempt by EOCO to arrest the Manhyia South legislator days earlier.
The latest development comes following a botched attempt to arrest the Manhyia South legislator by EOCO days ago.
The attempted arrest took place on Wednesday, September 23, 2026, at the premises of the Accra High Court and was captured in videos circulating on social media.
According to EOCO in a statement dated September 23, 2026, the MP was invited twice in February 2026 to assist with the investigation but did not honour the invitations.
"The Office had previously invited Hon Baffour Awuah to assist with the investigation on two occasions in February 2026. The invitations were not honoured," EOCO said.
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The office said it subsequently took steps to secure his attendance in line with the law, describing today's attempted arrest as one of those steps.
"EOCO wishes to clarify that its officers, acting in the lawful discharge of their statutory responsibilities, attempted to effect the arrest of Hon. Baffour today, 23 September 2026, in connection with an ongoing investigation," it explained.
The investigation is reportedly in relation to Baffour Awuah's representation of SIC Life Insurance Limited in a case way before he became an MP.
Speaking in an interview on Accra FM after the suit, on Monday, September 28, 2026, the Akwatia MP Bernard Bediako Baidoo shared details of supposed evidence gathered by EOCO against the colleague legislator, including the claim that he, without the knowledge of the board of SIC Life, renegotiated a judgment the state-owned enterprise had won as a micro-credit firm, Equity Micro-Finance.
Bernard Baidoo said that the Manhyia South legislator, on behalf of his law firm, represented SIC Life in its case against Equity after the private company could not pay back a loan of GH¢6 million.
“When he was going to court, SIC gave him GH¢280,000. The court awarded a judgment in favour of SIC for the sale of the microfinance company’s property, which was worth GH¢25 million. The auctioneer the court appointed to sell the property had even gotten a buyer, and the deal was almost done.
“All of a sudden, another company called Eco Swiss came into the frame claiming that Equity Micro Finance had sold the said property (a land) to them long ago… The matter went to court, and before the court could even determine the true owner of the land, Baffour Awuah went to settle the matter of the state entity. As we speak, this is no board decision which permitted him to do that,” the Akwatia legislator said.
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Bernard Baidoo indicated that the evidence from EOCO also showed that Baffour Awuah was paid by all three companies involved in the matter - SIC Life, Eco Swiss and Equity - even though he was supposed to be only a lawyer for the state-owned company.
“He settled with Eco Swiss for them to pay GH¢5 million for that loan facility whose principal was even GH¢6 million for the matter to die. These are things Baffour Awuah signed as a solicitor. But as a solicitor, he has to prove here he got the authority to renegotiate a judgment of GH¢14 million.
“After this, Eco Swiss gave Baffour Awuah GH¢2.2 million. What was this for? You were not their lawyer… All of these are from EOCO documents. As if this was not enough, the people from Equity also gave him over GH¢600,000,” he said.
The Akwatia MP also claimed that the then Managing Director of SIC Life Insurance, Amma Frimpomaa Dwumah, was given GH¢1 million by Baffour Awuah and his law firm.
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