{"id":390218,"date":"2018-01-10T06:52:52","date_gmt":"2018-01-10T06:52:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=390218"},"modified":"2018-01-10T08:39:33","modified_gmt":"2018-01-10T08:39:33","slug":"central-medical-store-prosecution-delayed-incomplete-investigations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2018\/01\/central-medical-store-prosecution-delayed-incomplete-investigations\/","title":{"rendered":"Central Medical Store prosecution delayed over incomplete investigations"},"content":{"rendered":"
Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, Gloria Akuffo, has said that incomplete investigations have delayed the prosecution of persons suspected to have deliberately set aflame the Central Medical Store.<\/p>\n
According to her, information gathered so far from investigations into the matter are weak, hence the delay in initiating legal proceedings against suspects.<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”d3RhkxH4SFRuXAndVNqmP93a7m9grUWA”]Medicines worth millions of dollars were destroyed in that inferno.<\/p>\n
Over 18 people were alleged to have been involved in the incident which happened in 2015, and the incident has been confirmed to be arson.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere were many drugs which were destroyed in the fire. We don\u2019t have the values. If you study the docket, you will see that the investigations is geared towards charging the suspects for causing financial loss to the state. You need to know the amount involved for each of these of these 18 accused persons. It was not there… The advice was given that they should also go to the bank accounts of these suspects so we could see if there could be tracing of their transactions because some were suspected to have taken drugs from there and sold to the private parties. It is quite a complex case and we need the assistance of the investigators to do these things because we don\u2019t investigate.<\/p>\n
In 2016, 12 officials of the Ghana Health Service who were accused of playing various roles in the arson were also interdicted, but the status of the case is not yet known.<\/p>\n
Before the fire, there were reports that the\u00a0then Health Minister, Dr. Kwaku Agyeman-Mensah, had initiated investigations into allegations of corrupt practices at the store.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n