By Florence Gbolu
An Accra fast track has adjourned the trial of the former first lady Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings and four others including Caridem Development Company Limited who are standing trial for causing financial loss to the state to July 9, 2008.
Yesterday’s adjournment was as a result of the fact that the trial judge, Justice Acquaye before whom the accused persons were arraigned have been elevated to the Court of Appeal and thus a substantive judge had to be allocated to the court to take over the case.
The accused person, Mrs. Rawlings, is facing eight counts of conspiracy, causing loss to public property dishonestly, obtaining public property by false pretences, obtaining public property by false statement, conspiracy to alter forged documents and altering forged documents.To defend the charges against her include Emmanuel Amuzu Agbodo, former Executive Secretary at the Divestiture Implementation Committee (DIC), Thomas Benson Owusu, former Accountant, DIC, and Kwame Peprah, former Minister of Finance and former Chairman, DIC.
The rest charged with the erstwhile first lady are Sherry Ayittey, Managing Director of Caridem, and Caridem Development Company Limited.
They are facing conspiracy charges and causing financial loss to public property running into billions of cedis following the acquisition of GIHOC Nsawam Cannery, a government enterprise and producer of canned foods, which was divested in 1995 during the administration of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and purchased by Caridem Development Company Limited owned by the 31st December Women’s Movement.
They have pleaded not guilty to all the charges and are on self-recognisance bail.
According to state prosecution, the accused persons have failed to complete interest payments accrued on the purchase price in the acquisition of GIHOC Nsawam Cannery
(picture caption: Mrs. Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings)
An Accra fast track has adjourned the trial of the former first lady Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings and four others including Caridem Development Company Limited who are standing trial for causing financial loss to the state to July 9, 2008.
Yesterday’s adjournment was as a result of the fact that the trial judge, Justice Acquaye before whom the accused persons were arraigned have been elevated to the Court of Appeal and thus a substantive judge had to be allocated to the court to take over the case.
The accused person, Mrs. Rawlings, is facing eight counts of conspiracy, causing loss to public property dishonestly, obtaining public property by false pretences, obtaining public property by false statement, conspiracy to alter forged documents and altering forged documents.To defend the charges against her include Emmanuel Amuzu Agbodo, former Executive Secretary at the Divestiture Implementation Committee (DIC), Thomas Benson Owusu, former Accountant, DIC, and Kwame Peprah, former Minister of Finance and former Chairman, DIC.
The rest charged with the erstwhile first lady are Sherry Ayittey, Managing Director of Caridem, and Caridem Development Company Limited.
They are facing conspiracy charges and causing financial loss to public property running into billions of cedis following the acquisition of GIHOC Nsawam Cannery, a government enterprise and producer of canned foods, which was divested in 1995 during the administration of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and purchased by Caridem Development Company Limited owned by the 31st December Women’s Movement.
They have pleaded not guilty to all the charges and are on self-recognisance bail.
According to state prosecution, the accused persons have failed to complete interest payments accrued on the purchase price in the acquisition of GIHOC Nsawam Cannery
(picture caption: Mrs. Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings)
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