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The Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) has given the Chief Executive Officer of Produce Buying Company (PBC), Mr Kofi Owusu Boateng ten days within which to respond to a complaint of misappropriation lodged against him by Kumasi-based journalist Nana Kwadwo Jantuah. “You are required to submit your written response within 10 working days upon receipt of this complaint,” CHRAJ stated in its letter to the CEO. The journalist, represented by his lawyer, Mr Sarfo Gyamfi, believes the company, which was recently delisted by the Ghana Stock Exchange (GSE) over its failure to publish its financial results, should be investigated for possible corruption and mismanagement, hence his petition to CHRAJ. In his petition, Mr Jantuah cited suspicious activities by the directors of the firm to back his claim and noted that he has documents which indicated the withdrawal of some GHS 1.5 million from PBC’s account in 2018, ostensibly for the purchase of nuts, which have not...

The US government is threatening sanctions against Ghana over the termination of the controversial Power Distribution Services (PDS) Ghana Limited deal with the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG). Government in a letter dated October 18, 2019 to the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) announced the termination of the agreement which came into effect on March 1, 2019, and saw PDS take over Ghana’s major power distribution company, ECG. The decision, government explained, was prompted by some breaches of the agreement by PDS. According to the Ghana government, PDS failed to fulfil the necessary “condition precedent” in the agreement, which borders on demand guarantee. But Ghana’s decision appears not to be sitting well with the US government which has given the Ghana government October 30 to reverse the decision or face the consequences of the decision, which will be to lose 190 million dollars under the MCC Compact II. US government demands In a letter addressed to Ghana’s Financ...