{"id":24816,"date":"2014-06-14T06:15:22","date_gmt":"2014-06-14T06:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=24816"},"modified":"2014-06-14T21:36:55","modified_gmt":"2014-06-14T21:36:55","slug":"i-am-grateful-for-the-rule-of-law-asamoah-boateng","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=24816","title":{"rendered":"I am grateful for the rule of law &#8211; Asamoah-Boateng"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Information Minister under the Kufuor administration, Stephen Asamoah-Boateng says he is grateful for the existence of <span class=\"GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark\" id=\"d54e27f5-885e-4fca-b043-4c9453b00673\">rule<\/span> of law following his discharge and acquittal by the Accra High Court.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Asamoah-Boateng, his wife, Zuleika Lorwia and six <span class=\"GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark\" id=\"a273dd21-0377-4845-a07d-fe9a2747b690\">others including<\/span> a former deputy Information Minister in the same administration, Frank Agyekum were charged with conspiracy to defraud the state in 2009.<\/p>\n<p>The charges were in relation to a contract awarded to Mr Asamaoh-Boateng\u2019s sister-in-law for some renovation works at the Information Ministry during his tenure of office as sector Minister.<\/p>\n<p>The charges included contravention of the public procurement act and conspiracy.<\/p>\n<p>But the Accra High Court discharged and acquitted the former Minister and his wife.<\/p>\n<p>However, Frank Agyekum has been ordered by the court to open his defense <span class=\"GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark\" id=\"7d699423-e845-4382-b272-a751ff1bc910\">for<\/span> the case.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on <strong>Eyewitness News<\/strong>, Mr. Asamoah-Boateng said: \u201cIt is true<span class=\"GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark\" id=\"4d92f441-277f-44b6-9d5a-6dae4fe44c45\">\u2026<\/span>I kept on saying that God is on my side in everything I do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He dismissed reports that the said contract was awarded to his sister in-law saying, \u201cthere was no contract awarded to my sister in-law. It is my sister in-law who owned the company but she didn\u2019t get any contract.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The former Information Minister stated that the existence of <span class=\"GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark\" id=\"03aa1518-aaf4-4828-8feb-15d3a1d48d8a\">rule<\/span> of law made it possible for the court to decide the case.<\/p>\n<p>He thanked his lawyers and his wife for believing in him and standing by him throughout the five-year <span class=\"GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark\" id=\"1c651555-acce-4a27-81e9-3775c74cf477\">case<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Regarding Mr. <span class=\"GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark\" id=\"1520938e-4bca-4cb0-b9db-a7b3ecab2e3f\">Agyekum<\/span>, Asamoah-Boateng explained \u201cI don\u2019t know how that <span class=\"GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark\" id=\"986901d9-455f-4d15-9e7d-6c1658cd6478\">happened but<\/span> he has his counsel<span class=\"GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark\" id=\"ca7fdf6d-e337-48e9-a633-a3cb9dcc08e7\">\u2026<\/span>and I believe they have a legal way of going about it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By: Efua Idan Osam\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<br \/>\n<a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/osamidan\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @osamidan<\/a><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\n!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=\/^http:\/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+':\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Information Minister under the Kufuor administration, Stephen Asamoah-Boateng says he is grateful for the existence of rule of law following his discharge and acquittal by the Accra High Court. Mr. Asamoah-Boateng, his wife, Zuleika Lorwia and six others including a former deputy Information Minister in the same administration, Frank Agyekum were charged with conspiracy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":24817,"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":[43,38],"class_list":["post-24816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-foresight-medical-center","tag-palaver-newspaper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24816","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}