Former Director General of SSNIT and four others in court

By Joyce Danso, GNA

Accra, July 24, GNA - Ernest Thompson, the immediate past Director General of the Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) and four others have appeared before an Accra High Court (Commercial Court) for wilfully causing financial loss to the state.

Thompson and his four accomplices are said to have caused a loss of over $66million in Operating Business Suite (OBS) contract, which seeks to provide state -of-the-art pension administration system.

The other accused persons are: John Hagan Mensah, an Information Technology (IT) Infrastructure Manager of SSNIT and later Operational Business Suite (OBS) Project Manager, Juliet Hassana Kramer, Chief Executive Officer of Perfect Business System (PBS) and Silver Lake Structured Service Limited, Caleb Kwaku Afaglo, former General Manager of Management Information Systems (MIS) at SSNIT and Peter Hayibor, a General Manager/ General Counsel of SSNIT.

The five have been variously charged with 29 counts of conspiracy, wilfully causing financial loss to the state and contravention of the Public Procurement Act.

Afaglo has additionally been charged with defrauding by false pretences, possession of forged documents and altering of forged documents.

All the five accused persons have pleaded not guilty to the charges.

They have been admitted to self recognisance bail by the Court presided over by Mr Justice Henry Anthony Kwoffie, a Court of Appeal Judge, sitting with additional responsibility as a High Court Judge.

The matter has been adjourned to October 17.

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