Saglemi Housing trial: Prosecutors given 3 weeks to serve disclosures
During Court proceedings on Wednesday, January 26, 2022, the prosecution team led by Senior State Attorney, Hilda Craig prayed the Court for a period of 3 weeks in order to conclude on the filing of disclosures.
An Accra High Court has tasked prosecutors in the Saglemi Housing trial to ensure that the accused persons are served with disclosures within 3 weeks.
During Court proceedings on Wednesday, January 26, 2022, the prosecution team led by Senior State Attorney, Hilda Craig prayed the Court for a period of 3 weeks in order to conclude on the filing of disclosures.
On its part, a defense lawyer, Godwin Edudzi Tamakloe in his submission, rather asked for the prosecution to be given till the end of March to file the disclosures once and in full thus avoiding the piecemeal approach.
The Presiding Judge, after listening to counsels, accorded the prosecution a period of 3 weeks, within which their disclosures should be served on the accused.
A former Minister of Water Resources, Works and Housing under the erstwhile John Mahama administration, and Member of Parliament for Asutifi South Constituency, Alhaji Collins Dauda, and four others have been charged with the offence of causing financial loss to the State; intentionally misapplying public property, among others over the Saglemi affordable housing project.
The other accused persons are Kwaku Agyemang Mensah, Alhaji Ziblim Yakubu, Andrew Clocanas and Nouvi Tetteh Angelo.
In all, the five accused persons are facing a total of fifty-two(52) counts for various offenses.
The first accused person, Alhaji Collins Dauda a former Minister of Water Resources, Works and Housing is facing a total of thirteen(13) counts of three charges namely intentionally misapplying Public Property, Willfully causing financial loss to the state, and issuing a false certificate.
Mr.Kwaku Agyemeng Mensah, who is the second accused person is facing twenty-two (22) counts of two charges as follows; Willfully causing financial loss to the state and issuing a false certificate.
Also, Alhaji Ziblim Yakubu, the third accused person is facing twenty-nine counts of willfully causing financial loss to the state and issuing a false certificate.
Andrew Clocanas, the fourth accused person is facing two(2) counts of issuing a false certificate and dishonestly causing loss to public property.
The last accused person in the person of Nouvi Tetteh Angelo is facing four counts of Issuing False Certificates and Dishonestly Causing Loss to Public Property.
The Court has meanwhile adjourned proceedings to March 2, 2022 for the case management conference.
