The Special Prosecutor, Martin Amidu has disclosed that, the documentary evidence on the dismissal of the Public Procurement Authority boss, Adjenim Boateng Adjei is “overwhelming”.
Contained in a press release, Martin Amidu noted that, the resolution of the Adjenim Boateng Adjei case was taking too long to investigate “because my seconded staff investigators appeared compromised”.
“I, therefore, asked for an interim report to be submitted to the President on the referral on the Adjenim Boateng Adjei case.
“When the first draft report was submitted to me, I felt scandalized. I called a management meeting on August 10, 2020, with the investigators’ and pointed out how the incriminating evidence in their possession were inconsistent with their interim report.
“I suspended all on-going investigations in all cases except those affecting pending cases in Court. I tasked the investigators to tabulate within one week the total deposits Mr. Adjei had made into his bank accounts. This is still outstanding to date.”
Chronicling the unfolding of event leading to the investigation, Mr. Amidu buttressed on the fact that, his outfit is not the brain behind the investigation.
“My Office never started the investigations into the ‘Contracts for Sale’ allegations because of the attitude of the investigators into the on-going investigation into the procurement malpractices the Office was handling before the referral from the Presidency, and this explains why Mr. Manasseh Azure has still not been invited to make a witness statement.
“Nobody should ask me about my disciplinary authority over my seconded staff because I have had none since I assumed the Office and those who needed to know have had knowledge of this fact for years. The documentary evidence is overwhelming”.
He further commended the work undertaken by the Commission on Human Right and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ).
That notwithstanding, he spelled out some problems with their report, which according to him, “for some reason it understates the amounts disclosed by the bank statements from the three banks accounts of Mr. Adjei exhaustively reviewed by the Auditor General for this Office”.
Elsewhere, reacting to CHRAJ report, the dismissed CEO of the Public Procurement Authority (PPA) described the report from the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice’s (CHRAJ) as replete with “aspersions, inferences, and assumptions”.
“The content of the 188-page report is a repetition of things we wrote to them that they also returned; it’s what they are turning around. CHRAJ is playing dual-role acting as investigators and adjudicators simultaneously while these are two different roles.
“Your investigation must end somewhere, and then you can bring your report for the other adjudicators to take over. There the other person can defend, challenge or accept certain evidence you used”.
With this, the Mr. Adjenim Boateng declared his intent to fight the Commission to vindicate himself.
“I am at battle with CHRAJ. I will tirelessly take them on and make certain revelations to make them understand that if there’s anyone to be dismissed from public office, I don’t deserve to be the one, especially based on lies and fallacies”.
