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Dr. Stephen Kwabena Opuni, former COCOBOD CEO |
A group calling itself, Young Cadres Association of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has stated that the legal action initiated by the government against the former CEO of COCOBOD, Dr. Stephen Opuni is political witch-hunting.
The Attorney General last week filed some 27 counts including a charge of causing financial loss to the state against Dr. Stephen Kwabena Opuni.
He is being sued together with one Seidu Agongo, CEO of Zeera Group of Companies and Agricult Ghana Limited, beneficiaries of a supposed fraudulent fertilizer contract worth over GH¢43 million.
The first court hearing has been scheduled for March 23, 2018.
But in a statement issued by the group's National Executives and copied to GhanaWeb indicated President Akufo-Addo has failed to deal with the corrupt practices within his government hence using the former appointees as scapegoats.
The Young Cadres Association described the news as strange.
"The news is as bizarre as it sounds because President Akuffo-Addo has sheepishly decided to turn a blind eye on the numerous corrupt practices happening right under his nose and rather decided to go in for scapegoats in the erstwhile National Democratic Congress (NDC) to assuage the cries and murmurs from the hawks within his party", the statement emphasized.
Source: Ghaweb
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