According to reports, the Office of the Vice President wrote to the Commissioner of the Customs Division requesting that bags of rice that had been imported by a businessman in a legal dispute with another company over ownership of the same products be released.
As a consequence, James Keck Osei, an administrator in the Office of the Vice President, and three other people were charged after the irate businessman complained about this to the Office of Special Prosecutor.
Issah Seidu, a customs officer with the National Insurance Commission, and John Abban and Peter Archibold are the other three.
They have been accused of disobeying a legitimate request made by a designated official.
A businessman who brought rice into the nation filed a complaint with the Special Prosecutor. The issue is that the first accused, Issah Seidu, and another individual both attempted to clear the identical items.
These people were given a form to complete by the Special Prosecutor when he was looking into the case, asking them to list their sources of income and real estate holdings. They were charged as a result of their failure to comply.
The merchant asserts that the GRA looked into the situation and requested that the products be given to him.
“One deputy commissioner was asked to look into the issue and report back and her findings were that the documents presented by A1 (Issah Seidu) were fake and the petitioner was the owner of the goods and should be allowed to clear them. Instructions were given for the release of the goods to the petitioner. On hearing this A1 rushed to the court to file a civil suit against the petitioner and GRA,” Prosecutor at the Officer of Special Prosecutor Emmanuel Basintele told the court.
“He thereafter sought to injunct them to prevent the GRA from releasing the goods to the petitioner.”
The petitioner later discovered records from the Vice President’s office, the speaker said.
“It was at this point that the petitioner said he has come across documents from the office of the vice President addressed to the commissioner of customs to release the goods imported by the petitioner to A1 because the office of the vice president wanted to use the rice for Ramadan.
“The petitioner has no relationship with the OSP. He is just a Ghanaian who wants to prevent corrupt officials from unlawfully taking his goods from him.”
The Court awarded Issah Seidu and Peter Archibold bail in the amount of 10,000 cedis with one surety each, while the Administrator at the Office of the Vice President was given self-recognizance bail. John Abban, the second defendant, did not appear in court.
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