How did NAM 1 land in Dubai? the government has questions to answer – Lawyer

General News of Sunday, January 20th, 2019

Source: citinewsroom.com

2019-01-20

Nii Kpakpo Samoa Addo, a lawyer, questioned the circumstances in which Menzgold's general manager, Nana Appiah Mensah, found herself in the United Arab Emirates unbeknownst to the state.

Nana Appiah Mensah, better known as NAM 1, would have been invited to be questioned by some state institutions, fearing that Menzgold would be a Ponzi scheme before it came out only once. he was arrested in Dubai in December 2018.

Mr. Samoa Addo could not understand how NAM 1 was allowed to leave the country while the Menzgold controversy was raging.

"Do you have information about the pressure that was forming? In fact, are you telling me that this person was allowed to leave an investigative institution without his pbadport being seized?

"People have questions to answer if there was a serious effort to investigate the activities of this particular gentleman," he added.

In his opinion, even a normal citizen would have seen his pbadport seized "at what point someone who carried such a serious allegation weighs on his head and was allowed to leave that country by our borders".

Embarrbading situation

Captain Budu Koomson, security badyst and former army chief, said "there was a complete failure of security when this case is involved".

He also said that the evolution of the Menzgold saga suggested that security agencies were not aware of the problems.

"Right now, we have eggs on our faces. Look at the timelines; when we said that we had issued a warrant against him, he had already been arrested before.

The mandate was issued for NAM 1 on January 9 because of the company's inability to pay investors their money,

This is despite information received from Dubai that he was arrested on 7 December.

Nam 1 has been accused by the state of fraud by false pretense.

In Dubai, an ore trader announced that his company, Horizon Royal Diamonds DMCC, had attempted to enter into an agreement with NAM 1 for 750 kilograms of gold valued at about US $ 51 million.

But this agreement seems to have gone wrong, which is why he is being tried for misdemeanor, hence the inability of Ghana to extradite him in the meantime.