Former Director General (DG) of Social Security and National Insurance Trust, (SSNIT), Ernest Thompson, and three others have been ordered by the High Court in Accra to open their defense to charges regarding the purchase of Operational Business Suite (OBS).
On December 3, the Court presided over by Justice Henry Anthony Kwofie said, Thompson together with John Hagan Mensah, a former IT Manager at SSNIT and Peter Hayibor, the lawyer for SSNIT should answer two counts.
The two counts are conspiracy and wilfully causing financial loss to the Republic contrary to section 179(3) (a) of the Criminal Offences Act, 1960 (Act 29).
While Caleb Kwaku Afaglo, a former Head of Management Information Systems (MIS) at SSNIT is to respond to seven counts.