Mr Philip Assibit, one of the two persons jailed in 2018 for his role in the National Youth Employment Agency (NYEP) scandal, has been granted a presidential pardon by President Akufo-Addo on health grounds.
Presidential pardons have become common mostly at the end of presidential tenures in Ghana and elsewhere.
Mr Assibit, a private service provider to the Ghana Youth Employment and Entrepreneurial Development Agency, formerly NYEP, and the then CEO of Goodwill International Ghana (GIG) was found guilty of six of the 19 counts he faced including defrauding by false pretence.
He was jailed along with Abuga Pele after they were found guilty of the 19 counts including dishonestly causing financial loss to the state.