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Businessman, one of the two remaining persons who are standing trial for causing financial loss to the State in the purchase of some ambulances, has questioned the basis of his trial, as he denied the Attorney-General’s charges against him that he and others willfully caused financial loss of €2.37 million to the state.

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Richard Jakpa, insisted that he had no business with “government” nor “Big Sea” describing those assertions by the Prosecution as “not proper,” adding that his prosecution was in “bad faith.”

He mentioned a company by name JBL, as having a relationship with the state and another firm by name Big Sea, but not him.

In Court on Tuesday, May 21, 2024 while concluding on the reading of his 134-paragraphed Witness Statement (evidence-in-chief), Mr Jakpa explained that “it is clearly not proper to contend that government has suffered financial loss when government still has the benefit of the ambulances which are in government’s possession.”

Mr Jakpa, insisted that he had “no business transaction with the State or even Big Sea.”

 

 

 

 

 

Assigning reasons for his position as to the charge against him not being proper, he said “government or Big Sea, also did not contract me to play any role whatsoever in the transaction from which the present proceedings result.”

It was also the case of Mr Jakpa, the third accused person that, he is “not an officer of Big Sea or government”

The 3rd Accused, also told the Court that, “It is JBL which has relationships with Big Sea and not the government.”

“I am just a director and shareholder of JBL unless there is a special reason for making me personally the accused person in this case, and the prosecution has established none, my prosecution is not proceeded with in good faith,” he submitted.

Mr Jakpa together with Dr Ato Forson, former Deputy Finance Minister and now the Minority Leader in Parliament, are standing trial for willfully causing financial loss of €2.37 million to the state, through a contract to purchase 200 ambulances for the Ministry of Health.

They have pleaded not guilty to the five counts of willfully causing financial loss to the state, abetment of crime, contravention of Public Procurement Act and intentionally misapplying public property.

Dr Forson was granted a GHc3 million self-reconnaissance bail, while businessman, Richard Jakpa was granted a bail of GHc5 million bail with three sureties one of whom must be justified with documents of a landed property.

Dr Sylvester Anemana, a former Chief Director at the Ministry of Health, who was the 2nd Accused, had had health concerns and had since been discharged, following Attorney General’s Nolle Prosequi,

Mr Jakpa, also told the Court in the concluding part of his Evidence-in-Chief through his Witness Statement that, “even with JBL, it (JBL] is merely a commissioned agent of the said Big Sea company which acted as an agent for Big Sea for a fee.”

The third accused also posited that, “neither me nor JBL had any responsibility/obligation under the contract between GoG and Big Sea in the delivery of the ambulances.”

“All payments made were made directly to Big Sea through an Irrevocable Transferable Letter of Credit (LC).

“Payments made to JBL were made pursuant to court orders which are still valid and not set aside,” the accused told the Court.

He added that, the ambulances have been duly supplied and “an agreement reached to rectify all defects if any.”

“The accessories to rectify all defects have since the year 2016 been shipped to the government,” he told the Court.

He also said, “government has accepted the ambulances because the government has not rejected them.”

 Mr Jakpa is facing cross examination from lawyers of Dr Ato Forson before the High Court presided over by Justice Afia Serwah Asare-Botwe, a Justice of the Court of Appeal.

 

Source: heraldghana
Via: Mawuli Innocent
Tags: AMBULANCE TRIALJakpa cross examination
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