Member of Parliament for Tamale Central and former Minister for Road and High ways, Hon. Alhaji Inusah Fuseini says the sentence meted out to former coordinator of the NYEP Hon. Abuga Pele was too harsh.
According to him, it was negligent on his part to have caused financial loss to the state and that he deserved 2 years.
“There are others who even 2 years for willfully causing financial loss to the state, so why should Abuga Pele's case be different?” he asked.
A High Court convicted former NYEP boss and former member of parliament for Chiana Paga, Abuga Pele and a private service provider, Philip Assibit, after they were found guilty of 19 counts including dishonestly causing financial loss to the state.
The Court was satisfied that the prosecution had proved 13 of the 19 counts Abuga Pele faced ranging from aiding and abetting crime to willfully causing financial loss to the state.
Some of the counts included intentionally misapplying public property and dishonestly causing loss to public property.
Speaking on Okay FM's ‘Ade Akye Abia’ programme, the former minister explained that he should have been sentenced to 2 years as 6 years for a negligent offence is too harsh, making it look as if he willfully caused financial loss to the state.
“I think I sympathize entirely with Abuga Pele but on the matter of law it’s clearly an afterthought. There are many processes that one has to go through before you decide whether or not to engage someone to perform a contract”, he said.
Abuga Pele was a Member of Parliament for Chiana-Paga before he was appointed Head of NYEP, which was later renamed Ghana Youth Employment and Entrepreneurial Development Agency (GYEEDA).
He however denied reports that former Sports Minister has said that the NDC will release the former NYEP coordinator when they are elected into power 2020.
He says that is not the position of the party
His counterpart Philip Akpeena Assibit who was the CEO of Goodwill International Ghana (GIG) was also found guilty of six of the 19 counts he faced including defrauding by false pretence.
He was also sentenced to 12 years in prison.
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FUSEINI, YOU MUST BURY YOUR HEAD IN SHAME FOR THE WAY YOU NORTHERNERS WHO GET THE OPPURTUNITY TO TRANSFORM THE NORTHERN REGION HAS BECOME ***barred word*** IN JUST 4YEARS. ALMOST ALL THE ***barred word*** IN MAHAMA'S ADMINISTRATION WERE NORTHERNERS, WHY? YOU THE NORTHERN MPS', MINISTERS, BOARD MEMBERS AND ALL THOSE WHO HELD BIG POSITION IN MAHAHAMA'S GOVERNMENT SHOULD BE LYNCHED BY THE YOUTH OF THE THREE NORTHERN REGIONS. YOU HAVE DISAPPOINTED THE YOUTH OF THE THREE NORTHERN STATES AND I HOPE WE VOTE ALL OF OUT OF PARLIAMENT IN 2020. FOR MAHAMA, HE SHOULD NOT EVEN TRY, HE IS HAS DESTROY THE CHANACES OF ANY NORTHERNER BECOMING PRESIDENT. MAYBE BAWUMIA WILL COME AND CHANGE THAT PERCEPTION, HOPE SO.
Too harsh? A mobile phone ***barred word*** got 10 years jail term and this Abuga Pele guy got only 6 years for stealing millions of Ghc and you former minister Fuseini said its too harsh? You are a ***barred word***. Get ready for you yourself. The special prosecutor is going to come after you for the road contracts you gave out during Mahama's term.
Too harsh? Abuga Pele and his accomplice would have shot during the so called PNDC revolution days.....
I CANNOT UNDERSTAND WHY MATURED AND WISE MPS LIKE INUSA ARE NOT MADE MINORITY LEADERS. NDC IS A PARTY OF RASCALSS SO PEOPLE LIKE INUSA ARE IGNORED AND THOSE LIKE OKUDZETO, MUNTAKA AND HARUNA BECOME FRONT RUNNERS.
Hash you said? compare the price of one goat to what the two stole. If a goat stolen that cost 1000 GHc can attract 4yrs, then Asibit and Pele by extrapolating should have received more. I do not pity them. More is coming!
MR INUSAH YOU HAVE NOT SEEN ANYTHING YET. WAIT FOR THE SP PEOPLE WILL GO IN FO , TWENTY, THIRTY AND FORTY YEARS. YOU THINK GHANAIANS ARE JOCKING.EVEN YOU YOURSELF PREPARE TO MEET MARTIN FOR ***barred word*** AT THE ROAD SECTOR.YOU HAVE QUESTIONS TO ANSWER SOON, AND YOU ARE PLEADING FOR SOME ONE.
John Mahama the Northerner put Northerners in charge of programmes that will benefit Northerners and what did we see, CREATE , LOOT AND SHARE.
too harsh??? left to these NDC cr!m!nals Abuga Pele should be free.... Most of them benefited from the l00t....
Inusah eee!... start preparing for your sentence soon. Too harsh huh? Even mobile phone "stealers" get more than 6yrs. You guys are pathetic!
Too harsh eh. Do you know how much pain, suffering, death this stolen amount had caused society???. Better you guys keep quiet and stop protecting looters and wrong doers. To me he should have gone in for LIFE. You should start preparing your self for Nsawam for very soon the guillotine will start rolling.