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The Chief Accountant of the Electoral Commission (EC), Mr. Kwaku Owusu Agyei-Larbi, says that the amount of 432,000 GH ¢ which has been entrusted to him for safekeeping is in a safe in his office.
The only way for him to hand over money to the EC is when he has access to his office.
M. Agyei-Larbi, as well as the Assistant Commissioner in charge of Finance and Administration, Georgina Amakwah also Finance Officer, Joseph Asamoah, was invited to leave in 2017 after investigation of the Office of Economic Crime and Organized Crime (EOCO) on the Commission's Contingency Fund.
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The Chief Justice Committee which was set up to consider several petitions requesting the dismissal of the President of the the EC and its two deputies recommended that Mr. Agyei-Larbi pay to the commission one m He was charged with theft of 360 000 GH ¢ which he claimed that he was still in his custody, otherwise he would have been charged with theft.
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According to EOCO, his client would only make money available when he was reminded of his post.
According to the statement, asking Mr. Ageyi-Larbi to go on leave was to allow EOCO to investigate the missing staffing. funds; "After EOCO has completed its investigations and submitted its interim report to the Attorney General, which exempts our client from any wrongdoing, EOCO has not revised its directive to the Electoral Commission either. asked According to the Commission, several petitions sent to EOCO to remind his client of his leave were ignored and, if that had not been the case, the money would have been released. 19659009] statement, the sum of 360,000 GH ¢ n was not the only sum of money held by Mr. Agyei-Larbi
"If the client had not taken extended leave he would have put all these funds at his disposal. to the Commission because its only instructions were to keep these funds safe until new instructions on disbursements were made. "
Counsel for Mr. Agyei-Larbi therefore request that the directive ask him to proceed with revoked and also that he is recalled to resume his normal functions at the EC
They also want" the protection offered to our client while he resumes work at his office and to recover the money of GH ¢ 360,000 and the sum of GH ¢ 73,430 for a subsequent deposit in a designated account of the Electoral Commission.
They also ask that their client's office be protected and kept under surveillance since the location of the funds has been revealed.
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