{"id":108243,"date":"2015-04-14T12:58:54","date_gmt":"2015-04-14T12:58:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=108243"},"modified":"2015-04-14T15:18:03","modified_gmt":"2015-04-14T15:18:03","slug":"state-to-close-gyeeda-case-on-thursday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=108243","title":{"rendered":"State to close GYEEDA case on Thursday\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Barring any last minute interference, state prosecutors in the Ghana Youth Employment and Entrepreneurial Development Agency <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2014\/10\/08\/i-was-skeptical-about-payments-made-to-assibit-kofi-humado\/#sthash.ILOorb92.dpbs\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>(GYEEDA) scandal<\/strong><\/a> <\/span>will close their case on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;sgyabn9zRis4BZJDbZp8fdJbou2eL0IX&#8221;]GYEEDA boss, Abuga Pele\u00a0and Chief Executive Officer of Goodwill International Group, Philip Assibit who have\u00a0been implicated in the GYEEDA scandal are facing trial for intentionally causing financial loss to the state.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Lawyers for the accused on Tuesday cross-examined investigators in the case.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The process is expected to continue on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The two have been accused of willfully causing financial loss to the state to the tune of GH\u00a23,330,568.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">They have both pleaded not guilty and are currently on bail.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Gov\u2019t must prosecute Kofi Humado\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In a related development, a\u00a0Member of Parliament\u2019s Finance Committee Dr. Mark Assibey-Yeboah and\u00a0the\u00a0<span style=\"color: #666699;\"><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2015\/03\/19\/group-goes-after-kofi-humado-over-gyeeda-scandal\/#sthash.KFkRMyt0.dpbs\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>National Advocates Against Corruption and Injustice<\/strong><\/a> <\/span>(NACCAI) are asking government <span style=\"color: #333333;\"><a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2015\/03\/03\/govt-must-prosecute-kofi-humado-mark-assibey\/#sthash.f6GwSC85.ryUBlETF.dpbs\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><span style=\"color: #666699;\">to prosecute Clement Kofi Humado<\/span>,<\/strong><\/a> \u00a0former Sports Minister,<\/span>\u00a0for his\u00a0alleged involvement\u00a0in the financial mismanagement that took place in the GYEEDA.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_13069\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13069\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/kofi_humado.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13069\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/kofi_humado.jpg\" alt=\"Kofi Humado\" width=\"490\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/kofi_humado.jpg 490w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/kofi_humado-300x202.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 490px) 100vw, 490px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-13069\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kofi Humado<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">They insist that Kofi Humado was complicit in the case because he signed \u201can amount of Ghc240,000,000 to Better Ghana Management Service\u201d as captured in the 2013 Auditor General\u2019s report which they say was not value for money, hence their call.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">By: Fred Djabanor\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barring any last minute interference, state prosecutors in the Ghana Youth Employment and Entrepreneurial Development Agency (GYEEDA) scandal will close their case on Thursday. [contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;sgyabn9zRis4BZJDbZp8fdJbou2eL0IX&#8221;]GYEEDA boss, Abuga Pele\u00a0and Chief Executive Officer of Goodwill International Group, Philip Assibit who have\u00a0been implicated in the GYEEDA scandal are facing trial for intentionally causing financial loss to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":19943,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[38,17],"class_list":["post-108243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-palaver-newspaper","tag-wassa-akropong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=108243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=108243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=108243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=108243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}