Former PPA Boss, Relative Charged For Using Public Office For Profit
The Special Prosecutor, Kissi Agyebeng has charged the former Chief Executive Officer (CEO) for the Public Procurement Authority (PPA) Adjenim Boateng Adjei for using his former office for his interest.
He is facing eight counts of using public office for profit and nine counts of directly and indirectly influencing the procurement process in the award of procurement contract.
On the other hand is Francis Kwaku Arhin, brother-in-law of the former PPA boss.
He is also being charged with one count of using public office for personal interest.
The Special Prosecutor says the two will be arraigned before the Criminal Division of the Accra High Court on Wednesday, May 25, 2022.
Background (Source: Graphic)
Mr. Adjei was the CEO of PPA from March 2017 to August 2019 when he was suspended from his office and his tenure ended on October 30 last year following the termination of his appointment by the President.
His appointment was terminated after he was captured in a video documentary titled “Contract for Sale,” engaging in an act CHRAJ considered a grave abuse of his high office of trust.
In the documentary, Mr. Adjei was accused of establishing TDL, which won some government contracts through restrictive tendering but sold the contracts to individuals or contractors.
Suppliers and contractors interested in buying those contracts from TDL had to register with the company by paying a non-refundable fee of GH¢5,000.
In the documentary, TDL was ready to sell a contract worth GH¢22.3 million to a non-existent entity that, a journalist, Manasseh Azure Awuni’s team had made up.
Mr. Adjei was accused of using information he acquired as the CEO of PPA to the advantage of TDL in which he owned 60 per cent of shares.
President Nana Akufo-Addo, following the documentary, referred him to CHRAJ to be investigated on conflict of interest claims. It was the findings of the said investigations that Mr. Adjei was challenging.
Source: opemsuo.com/Hajara Fuseini
