An Accra Circuit Court provides sentenced a stability coordinator of Town you live Mass Transit Corporation Limited, Lawal Fuseini, to a 10-year jail term to get blackmailing the company’s former Managing Home, Bennet Aboagye.
Typically the Court on Friday found Mr Fuseni guilty of against the law access and extortion.
The court presided over by Your ex Honour Adelaide Abui Keddy in giving throughout the sentence explained that the penalties should function as some sort of deterrent.
Additional man or woman mentioned as Bawa, who is thought to have conspired while using convict, is currently being receive claims via the police.
Typically the former MD involving the Metro Size Transit Limited (MMT), Bennet Aboagye, was initially asked to move aside following accusations of procurement removes in purchasing quite a few 300 buses in April 18, 2018.
Some personnel involving MMT petitioned typically the Special Prosecutor to review Mr Aboagye above what they identified as filthy discounts being transacted throughout the company.
In a very petition to typically the Special Prosecutor, typically the personnel of MMT raised several concerns of corruption in opposition to the MD together with Ahmed Arthur throughout the procurement on the vehicles.
But typically the former MD involving MMT denied typically the claims against him or her.
He insisted of which Mr Lawal was initially endeavoring to extort concerning ¢1 million via him instead.
Typically the convict was explained to have selected and planted a secret digicam in the business office of his ex – MD and employed the recording to be able to demand $1m nonetheless succeeded in receiving ¢40, 000.
