Jailed Abuga Pele pardoned by President Akufo-Addo
Abuga Pele pardoned: Reports from the Nsawam maximum security prison confirms that His Excellency President Akufo-Addo of the Republic of Ghana has pardoned the jailed former Member of Parliament and a member of the National Democratic Congress (NDC).
Mr. Abuga Pele was sentenced to a 6-years imprisonment by an Accra High Court in 2018 for causing financial loss to the state when he was a National Coordinator of the defunct Ghana Youth Employment and Entrepreneurial Development Agency (GYEEDA).
He was said to have acted in a manner that resulted in the loss of GH¢4.1 million by government after businessman Phillip Akpeena Assibit had made false claims that he had secured a $65-million World Bank funding for the creation of one million jobs for the youth.
Abuga Pele was found guilty on two counts of abetment of fraud and five counts of willfully causing financial loss to the state.
He received six years for abetment of fraud and four years for wilfully causing financial loss to the state, both to be served concurrently.
The NDC in the Chiana-Paga Constituency in the Upper East Region welcomed the news and expressed gratitude to President Akufo-Addo for the bold step.
“We are elated by the news and so happy here in Chiana-Paga,” the NDC Constituency Chairman, James Kojo Kopanamo.
