Baba Jamal, Ahi caught in $200,000 fraud

Baba Jamal (left) and Sampson Ahi (right)

A former Deputy Minister for Employment and Labour Relations under the John Mahama administration Baba Jamal is being hunted by the Criminal Investigations Department of the Ghana Police Service for an alleged fraud.

He is alleged to have defrauded a businessman to the tune of about GHS 800,000.

The action of the police follows a petition they received from a businessman Anane Boateng asking them to invite Baba Jamal for questioning and assistance to retrieve his money.

The firebrand Brong Ahafo Regional Youth Organizer of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) Kwame Baffoe aka "Abronye DC" disclosed this on Oman FM's political analysis programme "Boiling Point.”

He explained that Mr. Anane Boateng who is well connected in the NDC was in search of a parcel of land to develop and so spoke to Baba Jamal who readily accepted to help him.

He said the former Member of Parliament for Akwatia in the Eastern Region then collected$100,000 to go and see his colleague Hon Sampson Ahi, who is a former deputy Minister at the Ministry of Water Resources Works and Housing and MP.

"He took $100,000 to go and give it to Sampson Ahi to influence the Ministry to offer parcel of government lands for sale to Anane Boateng. The actual cost was so that when the process goes through. The actual cost of the land per my documents was $1.5million but the money didn't get it Ahi."

"When Anane later contacted Sampson Ahi it was there that he realized that Baba Jamal didn't send the money to him, ” he said.

According to Kwame Baffoe, Anane who was bent on getting the land then gave additional $100,000 to Sampson Ahi and mentioned the chief director at the Ministry Alhaji Ziblim Yakubu who is currently on retirement and Alhaji Yakubu Yahya, director of housing as being beneficiaries of the money.

Despite coughing the $200,000 to Baba Jamal and Sampson, the two allegedly kept giving Anane Boateng excuses.

Kwame Baffoe said at a point Anane Boateng became unhappy with the conduct of the two personalities and therefore reported them to President John Dramani Mahama.

He said Mr. Anane Boateng threatened to bring the issue into the media but, Mr. Mahama prevailed on him to keep calm and promised him with juicy contracts should he secure a second term in office during the 2016 elections.

According to Kwame Baffoe, Mr. Anane has made several efforts to retrieve the money from Baba Jamal after the NDC lost the General Elections but he had been unsuccessful.

He said Baba Jamal who is finding it difficult to pay back the money recently took Anane Boateng to inspect his mining equipments at Akwatia so he could sell them to defray the cost, but after the inspection Mr. Anane Boateng rejected the proposal.

This, according to Kwame Baffoe compelled Anane Boateng to petition the CID to assist him to retrieve the money.

He said it took him about two weeks before the police made copy of the petition available to him.

Story By: Michael Creg Afful

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