The High Court in Accra has ordered Alex Mould, the previous Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) and Gavivina Tamakloe to pay GHc5 million to the state after failing to produce Sedinam Ationu Tamakloe.
The two sureties executed the bail bond for the “absconded” former Chief Executive Officer of MASLOC Sedinam Attionu Tamakloe to guarantee she seem in courtroom to stand trial.
But she has been absent for the previous 16 months.
In courtroom on Tuesday, January 24, when the case was referred to as, Justice Afia Serwaah Asare-Botwe stated, the courtroom can’t wait any longer.
Correspondence from his attorneys to the courtroom means that the accused who was granted a request for medical analysis on her spinal twine is requesting once more for not less than 9 extra months to bear eye surgical procedure.
But the courtroom noticed her to be “somebody who has opted to stay for medical tourism.”
Justice Asare-Botwe, now a Justice of the Court of Appeal stated “an entire 16 months delay is more than enough time given and I do not think that anybody who is fair will complain about 16 months delay.”
To this, the courtroom stated “the bail bond executed by the two sureties be forfeited to the Republic.”
According to EIB Network Legal Affairs Correspondent, Murtala Inusah, the courtroom will take into account the trial in absentia in two weeks (February 7).
More to come…..
Source: starrfm.com.gh
