Speaking on Metro TV's Good Morning Ghana affairs on Wednesday, July 31, 2024, Edudzi Tameklo appear that the case commenced in November 2017 aback Ato Forson, who is the above Deputy Minister of Finance, was arrive by the Economic and Organized Crime Appointment (EOCO) to acknowledgment some questions afterward a complaint by the Admiral of Health
Per Edudzi Tameklo's adaptation of events, the affair was a abrupt one as Ato Forson managed to explain to the aggregation of board from EOCO his role in the acquirement of ambulances by the bloom admiral beneath the Mahama government
"I anamnesis vividly that with my senior, Dominic Ayine, we had to booty Dr. to the UK about in November 2017 aback then-Speaker Mike Oquaye brought to our absorption that EOCO had accounting to him, agreeable the atonement MP
"When we got to EOCO, we met the board led by the Deputy Executive Director, Nana Antwi. In his office, he said that the amount was brought to them by the Admiral of Bloom led by Kwaku Agyemang Manu and Ato Forson was a being of interest
"Ato Forson gave the adumbration that above the actuality of requesting for the LC and autograph that the coffer accuse associated with the LC be answerable adjoin the Admiral of Health's bread-and-butter allocation, I played no added role in this transaction. They were shocked, so they absolutely gave us the badge anatomy to booty it home, write, and acknowledgment it
"From November 2017, EOCO never alleged Ato Forson afresh until on the 19th day of November 2021 aback the account absolute the E-levy was read. Immediately afterwards the account was read, Ato Forson adumbrated his action to the E-levy
"On September 25, EOCO wrote to the Speaker of Parliament agreeable Ato Forson. The Speaker accustomed the EOCO admiral to come, so we acclimated the Speaker's appointment room. They told us that they had been instructed by the Attorney-General to booty the allegation account from Ato Forson, but I said that we gave you an accustomed account and you didn't attention us
"They said that there is a close instruction, so we gave them the adumbration that we would accommodated afterwards for it. Less than ten account afterwards we larboard that meeting, they alleged me back, adage they had a close apprenticeship that his allegation account should be taken that day. On December 22, the Attorney-General asked the Director of Public Prosecution to adduce the bent accuse adjoin Ato Forson. By January 2021, we had to go to cloister to administer for bail," he recounted
Edudzi Tameklo's acknowledgment comes on the aback of the cardinal by the Cloister of Appeal on Tuesday, July 30, abolishment the High Court's cardinal on the acquiescence of no case by Ato Forson and Richard Jakpa
The court, in a 2-1 majority decision, declared that the High Cloister presided over by Justice Afia Serwaa Asare Botchwey erred in its acumen that the accompaniment accustomed abundant area for the case to access the balloon stage
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