Former Director-General of SSNIT, Ernest Thompson, together with four others who have been charged with causing financial loss to the state and defrauding by false pretenses, in the award of a $72million Operating Business Suite (OBS) contract, have all pleaded not guilty to all twenty nine counts.
The court today read all twenty nine charges to the five accused persons and their plea of not guilty were taken accordingly. The Attorney General subsequently read the facts of the case to the court.
The four other accused persons are former Head of the SSNIT Imformation Technology (IT) Department, Caleb Kwaku Afaglo; former OBS project manager; John Hagan Mensah and Juliet Hasana Kramah, Managing Proprietor of Perfect Business Systems and Peter Hayib.
Prosecution
The State’s legal team is led by the AG Gloria Akuffo, together with Director of Public Prosecution Yvonne Atakora Obuobisa, Alfred Asiamah Sampong, Chief State Attorney, Evelyn Keelson Chief State Attorney, Stella Ohene Appiah, Senior State Attorney, Richard Gyambiby, Senior State Attorney, and Penina Asah, State Attorney.
Defense Team
The former SSNIT Boss Ernest Thompson, (first accused person) is represented by lawyers Abednego Tetteh, Samuel Cudjoe, and Bernard Owiredu.
Lawyer Annis Mogtari, represents John Hagan Mensah, the Second Accused person. Lawyer Thaddeus Sory and Abua Juan Jagiara represents the third accused person, Juliet Hasana Kramah.
George Bernard Shaw, the fourth accused person is represented by lawyer Caleb Afaglo while Oliver Atsu Amegah represents Peter Hayibor, the fifth accused person
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