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A Deputy Minister of Roads and Highways, Mr Anthony Abayifaa Karbo, has been invited by the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service to assist with investigations into the fraud case involving the President of the Ghana Football Association (GFA), Mr Kwesi Nyantakyi.

This was after the Police Administration had officially sought clearance from the leadership of Parliament to release Mr Karbo.

Although the Deputy Director General of the CID, Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) Mr Francis Aboagye Nyarko, had earlier on Thursday told journalists that the deputy minister had not been invited by the CID, the Police Administration officially notified the leadership of Parliament Thursday afternoon for the release of Mr Karbo, who is also the Member of Parliament for Lawra.

Mr Karbo will appear before the CID on Monday, May 28, 2018.

News broke early Thursday that the CID had invited Mr Karbo to assist the police in investigations in relation to the case against Mr Nyantakyi.

CID to invite Anthony Karbo over Kwesi Nyantakyi investigations

Initial denial

When journalists who were having an interaction with the police at the Headquarters of the Ghana Police Service in Accra enquired about the issue, the police denied putting out the information.

Mr Nyarko explained that the police had just commenced investigations into the complaint against Mr Nyantakyi, who was arrested at the Kotoka International Airport on May 23, 2018 when he arrived in the country from an official visit to Morocco.