The Accra High Court has directed the prosecution team to file all witness statements against Kwabena Adu-Boahene by May 26, 2025.
The court presided over by His Lordship, Justice John Eugene Nyadu Nyante elevated concerns about the personal rights of the accused persons.
He encouraged the Deputy Attorney General to try as much as possible to expedite the trial.
Kwabena Adu Boahene, his wife Angela Adjei-Boateng and two others have been charged by the state with stealing, defrauding by false pretences, money laundering, and conspiracy to commit a crime.
According to the charge sheet Kwabena Adu Boahene, his wife stole state funds to the tune of GHc 49 million.
The Attorney General, Dr Dominic Ayine, filed 11 charges against Kwabena Adu-Boahene and three others at the High Court in Accra.
He was remanded by an Accra High Court but was granted bail by the court and has since been arrested for another crime.
According to Adu Boahene’s lawyer, Samuel Atta Akyea his client was re-arrested after he was released on Tuesday, after serving his seven-day remand in the custody of the Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO).
Samuel Atta Akyea revealed that the arrest concerned a different crime that had to do with National Security providing internet services to Ghana Water Limited.
Dr Dominic Ayine, the Attorney General and Minister for Justice has revealed the former Director-General of the National Signals Bureau (NSB), Kwabena Adu Boahene another criminal act.
According to the Attorney General, Kwabena Adu Boahene redirected Ghana Water Company Limited (GWCL) internet services biweekly payments of ₵650,000 to his own company.
Dr Ayine revealed a contract between GWCL and the erstwhile Bureau of National Communications (now the National Signals Bureau) which the GWCL was to pay GHS1.3 million monthly in exchange for secure internet services.
The Attorney General noted that the GHS1.3 million monthly payment by the GWCL was diverted to Adu Boahene’s personal account instead of the accounts of the Bureau of National Communications.
