Dr Dominic Ayine the Attorney General and Minister for Justice has revealed that the the former CEO of the Ghana Infrastructure Investment Fund (GIIF) Solomon Asamoah is on the run.
According to the Attorney General, Solomon Asante is hiding in Senegal to evade prosecution.
He further revealed that authorities tracked him revealing he left Ghana on February 2, authorities first noticed that he was in South Africa.
Speaking to the media on the investigation carried out on the 2m Sky Train scandal so far, Dr Dominic Ayine revealed, “In respect of SkyTrain, we can confirm that the $2 million was paid at the request of the chairman of the Board of Directors of the Ghana Infrastructure Fund (GIIF), Professor Christopher Ameyaw-Akumfi, and then CEO, Solomon Asamoah who is currently hiding in Senegal.
We tracked him first and noticed that he was in South Africa. So, he left Ghana on February 2, to South Africa”, he added.
He further added, “We were monitoring him there, and then he left, and he is now in Senegal. When we contacted him, he told us that he would not come to Ghana until three months from now.
“So we are patiently waiting for him. If he wants to be tried in absentia, that is his choice to make. But we have the prosecutorial authority to prosecute him in absentia.
The person who acted with him to transfer that money, Prof Akumfi is in the country. So, if there is going to be a delay, we will start the prosecution with him being a suspect who is being tried in absentia,” he stated.
Joe Ghartey, the former Railway Development Minister was been invited to the National Intelligence Bureau (NIB) for questioning regarding the controversial Sky Train scandal.
The NIB also questioned Prof Christopher Ameyaw-Akumfi after he was allegedly fingered in the failed $3 billion Accra Sky Train project.
Reports also indicated Ghana signed a concession agreement with Africa Investment Sky Train Consortium in 2019, with an estimated cost of $3 billion.
However, the project never took off, and concerns were raised about its feasibility and financing.
A 2021 Auditor-General’s report, revealed that the Special Purpose Vehicle set up for the Sky Train project did not have an operational license, yet $2M was disbursed through GIIF under Prof Christopher Ameyaw-Akumfi’s leadership.
The project was announced in 2017 and aimed at transforming Ghana’s urban transport in Accra but never saw the light of day after the $ 2 million payment.
Meanwhile, Dr Dominic Ayine the Attorney General has called on Ghanaians to brace themselves for a rumble in the jungle in the next few weeks.
According to Dr Dominic Ayine, what suspect the former Director-General of the National Signals Bureau (NSB) Kwabena Adu-Boahene and his wife have done is like a “Thrilla in Manila”.
The Attorney General’s comments hinted at the fact that in the next couple of weeks, series of corruption cases under investigation are going to rock the country.
