Dr. Cassiel Ato Forson and Richard Jakpa will not face the Court of Appeal on the charge of causing financial loss to the state as wanted by former Attoreny-General Godfred Yeboah Dame.
The Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, Dr. Dominic Ayine, has abandoned all intents and purposes to pursue the case at the Court of Appeal after the two were acquitted and discharged.
Dr. Dominic Ayine issued a Notice of Abandonment of Appeal on the case, adding that the case will not be pursued further.
“PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the Republic having previously served notice of appeal to appeal to the Court against the judgment delivered by the Court of Appeal on the 30th day of July 2024 hereby give(s) you NOTICE that the Republic does not intend further to prosecute the appeal, but that the Republic abandons all further proceedings with respect to this matter as from the date of this notice,” the Attorney-General wrote in the document dated January 23.
Dr. Forson and two others, Seth Anemana, a former Chief of Director, Ministry of Health, and Richard Jakpa, a businessman, were variously charged with willfully causing financial loss to the state to the tune of 2.37 million Euros in the purchase of ambulances, which could not be used for their intended purpose.
On July 30 2024, a Court of Appeal sustained an appeal on the Financial and Economic Court’s decision by then Minority Leader and former Deputy Finance Minister, Dr Cassiel Ato Forson.
The Court of Appeal in its decision on July 30 indicated that the High Court’s decision should be set aside since “the prosecution failed to establish sufficient evidence. The trial judge erred in calling on A1 (Dr Cassiel Ato Forson) to open his defence.
The panel of three justices also acquitted and discharged the accused persons in the case.
