{"id":391936,"date":"2018-01-16T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-16T09:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=391936"},"modified":"2018-01-16T07:12:13","modified_gmt":"2018-01-16T07:12:13","slug":"eoco-to-release-findings-on-ecs-opoku-amankwah-in-14-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2018\/01\/eoco-to-release-findings-on-ecs-opoku-amankwah-in-14-days\/","title":{"rendered":"EOCO to release findings on EC’s Opoku Amankwah in 14-days"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Economic and Organised Crime Office, EOCO, has asked lawyers for embattled Deputy Chairperson of the Electoral Commission,\u00a0Georgina Opoku Amankwah, to give them two weeks to come up with their findings on their client.<\/p>\n
This was among the major issues discussed at a meeting between officials of the EOCO and Madam Amankwaah’s lawyers after a near clash on Monday.<\/p>\n
Officials of the Economic and Organised Crimes Office, EOCO, led by the Director, ACP K.K. Amoah, had stormed her office at the Electoral Commission to forcefully remove her from office for resuming full official duties in defiance of a directive that asked her to stay away.<\/p>\n
The Deputy chair resisted the attempts to get her out of the office, indicating that the EC was treating her unfairly.<\/p>\n
But following a meeting between her lawyer and officials of EOCO, it was agreed that EOCO presents its findings within 14 days.<\/p>\n
Georgina Opoku Amankwah’s lawyer, Nana Boakye Adu-Poku, told Citi News<\/strong> after the meeting that, “they [EOCO] said they have conducted an investigation so we have to see the outcome of the investigation. What we have agreed is that, for now, she has to stay out for some time and after 14 days, whether the report is in or not, she will proceed to work.”<\/p>\n Madam Opoku Amankwah was directed to proceed on leave in July 2017, to enable investigations into the 480,000 Ghana cedis believed to have gone missing from the EC\u2019s Senior Staff Endowment Fund.<\/p>\n