Special Prosecutor, I have credible evidence against Adjenim Boateng.
Mr. Adjei Boateng denied seven counts of using his public office for profit and ten counts of influencing the public procurement process directly and indirectly through his office.
The Special Prosecutor has charged the former PPA boss with 17 counts.
When he was arraigned before the Criminal Division of the Accra High Court on Wednesday, May 25, 2022, he pleaded not guilty to all charges.
Mr. Adjei Boateng denied seven counts of using his public office for profit and ten counts of influencing the public procurement process directly and indirectly through his office.
Francis Kwaku Arhin, the second accused, also pleaded not guilty to one count of profiting from a public officer.
However, after the court, Mr. Agyebeng told journalists, "I have my firm conviction that we have every evidence to see the accused guilty." It is related to procurement violations committed by the former Chief Executive Officer of the Public Procurement Authority (PPA) and his brother-in-law, which is why we are in court today.
"Their pleas were taken; they pleaded not guilty, and the court directed how the trial will proceed."
However, the court presided over by Justice Mary Maame Ekue Nsenkyire granted both GHc5 million bail with two sureties to be justified.
Murtala Inusah of the EIB Network's Court Correspondent reports that Kissi Agyabeng, the Special Prosecutor who represented the Republic, did not object to the grant of bail.
read also: A Nigerian attack killed a pregnant woman and two children.
According to police in Nigeria, gunmen killed at least 12 people in the south-eastern state of Anambra, including a pregnant woman and her four children.
The police have blamed rising violence in the region on Biafra separatists.
According to a community leader, the pregnant woman and her children were riding a motorcycle taxi home when they were ambushed by gunmen in the Orumba area.
On Sunday evening, several other people were killed in separate shootings. Police are investigating the incident.
On social media, the murders sparked outrage.
They happened just one day after the mutilated bodies of a local politician and his aide were discovered a week after they had been kidnapped.
The Indigenous People of Biafra (Ipob), a banned separatist group advocating for a breakaway state in the region, is being blamed for the escalation of violence in south-eastern Nigeria.
The group has denied some of the attacks.
In other parts of Nigeria, security forces are dealing with armed groups that are carrying out murders and kidnappings.
Last Sunday, more than 30 people were reported killed or kidnapped in an attack in Borno state in the country's north-east.
Boko Haram and an IS-linked group are active in that region.
The widespread insecurity is a major source of concern ahead of the elections in February of next year.
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