SSNIT trial: Release Afaglo’s passport – Court orders State

The Criminal High Court presided over by Henry Anthony Kwofie, a Court of Appeal judge sitting with additional responsibility as a High Court judge, on Friday, 2 November ordered the State to release the passport of Mr Caleb Kwaku Afaglo, the former head of Management Information System (MIS) at the Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT).

The court gave the order after lawyers for Mr Afaglo filed an application demanding same.

Mr Afaglo, together with the former Director-General of SSNIT, Ernest Thompson; a former IT infrastructure manager at SSNIT, John Hagan Mensah; Juliet Hassana Kramer, CEO of Perfect Business Systems; and Peter Hayibor, a lawyer for SSNIT, are standing trial for causing financial loss to the State.

Lawyers for Mr Afaglo argued in court that their client needed his passport for a pending trip outside the country.

The passports of the accused persons were seized as part of the bail conditions of the four.

They were charged with willfully causing financial loss to the state and are facing trial over a $140 million Operating Business Suite (OBS) contract entered into and executed during their tenure at SSNIT.

The five individuals are facing a total of 29 counts, ranging from willfully causing financial loss to the state, conspiracy to cause financial loss to the state, defrauding by false pretence, and contravention of public procurement authority act and authoring of forged documents.

Source: Ghana/ClassFMonline.com