A High court in Tamale has granted bail to a man brought before it on police charges that he defrauded and stole nearly one million cedis from a company he worked with to bankroll activities of the New Patriotic Party in the Northern region.
The court had delayed making a decision on whether to grant him bail on Thursday, August 17, a day after he was arrested following a shocking disclosure that the regional minister had deep ties and his name was mentioned many times in the suspect’s narrations.
The suspect, Alhassan Hafiz Sibdoo has worked for more than seven years as salesperson at the As- Sahabah company, a cosmetic firm that supply detergents and soaps in large quantities in the region.
On 16th of this month, the manager of the company Prince Osman Sahabi caused his arrest after he found that an amount of GH935,87 was missing and couldn’t be accounted for by the salesman.
This was after he had openly explained to his boss that he did political financing with the sales and mentioned that the regional minister, Salifu Saeed encouraged him and pledged that all his money will be refunded when the party was in power and he (minister) occupied a political office.
But after victory for the NPP and Salifu Saeed being appointed as minister, what the poor salesman received regularly from executives of the party including the minister were broken promises and outright deceit that has finally expose into a snare.
The manager had tried to engage with some of the regional executives for a settlement but their languishing attitude towards the negotiations compelled him to take the legal action. There had been several meetings and non-yielded progressive results.
Starr News revealed the executives consistently failed to keep their word and kept making shifting pronouncement. Sources told StarrNews there were evidences to prove he financed the party and some activities of the regional minister.
On August 17, when the case called at the High Court 2 presided over by His Honor William Appiah Twumasi, Allhassan Hafiz said once again that he invested in strengthening the regional communication directorate by empowering communicators and organizing Quran recitals for the party.
He said he did that because the regional minister guaranteed a quick refund when he was given a position to serve.
Following many other revelations and compelling facts, the judge allegedly ordered the prosecutors to extend investigations into the minister’s office and remanded the fraud and theft suspect for two weeks.
However, when the case was called again on Monday, August 28, 2017 prosecutors did not divulge the content of their probe and only handed it over to the Judge in a written statement who also made no comment about the report.
The suspect who was looking sad, uncertain and hopeless whiles the judge was busily entering records of the day’s proceeding, raised up his finger immediately after the court clerk mentioned the case. The Judge’s attention was drawn and he sustained to grant him hearing.
Hafiz then pleaded guilty of the charges and begged not be sent to jail after pledging to refund the all money. His Honor William Twumasi taking into consideration the demeanor of the suspect convicted him on his own plea to a fined of GH3,000.00 or in default four years in prison.
A number of NPP regional communication members including Adam A. Gafaru, Gazale Mankarigu were in the court to support Hafiz Sibdoo. His family and friends also came in numbers and some verbally attacked manager of the company describing his as wicked for jailing his own worker.
Source: Starrfmonline.com
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He deserved not to be handed a bail at all NPP Posterity would dawn on you.so sad meaning the regional minister preside and advice him to steal to foot the party Jah Jehovah help us.from dis santimonious greedy stealers
THIS CONVICTED NPP MAN DESRVES THE HIGHEST HONOR OF THE NATION " ORDER OF THE VOLTA' FOR RAISING FUNDS BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY TO OUST THE MOST EVER CORRUPT/ ***barred word*** PRESIDENT - JOHN DRAMANI /NDC. I'M NOT CONDONING WRONG DOING BUT THIS WAS AN EXCEPTION !!!!!!!! MOREOVER, THE END JUSTIFIED THE MEANS!!!!!!!!!
Such a person must be jailed so that he can never be appointed to hold political office. Such criminals are corrupt and they will steal at any least opportunity they get. Akufo Addo has no room for corrupt politicians.
***barred word***.
With all these serious revelations coming up, fuuulishh NDC Executives would sit down and fight among themselves instead of taking this opportunity to speak to Ghanaians about how corrupt NPP is. They would be sitting down talking about unnecessary stuff and neglect important issues such as this. Asiedu nkestiah, kofi Adams, Solomon nkansah, koku anyidoho, portuphy and others, all they know is to organize stoupid press conferences to talk about nana Addo old age instead of letting Ghanaians know that they are ready to come back to power by explaining what is going on dispassionately to Ghanaians. They need to change their old nun sense way of doing politics and be serious to expose the rot in Npp. NPP took advantage of any corrupt allegation to push you to opposition, but look at what is coming up. You are there meeting over ediotic gun shot forgery by asiedu nkestiah.
So nana ado and Barwumia used stolen monies to push their campaign to the flagstaff house. No wonder as soon as he won he appointed all these thieeeeves in various positions. I believe this is the tip of the iceberg, more of these incidence would be reported as most of Npp members are increasingly getting disgruntled and disillusioned. I have always known that Npp most activists are nothing but thieeeeves considering how their Vice President can lie more than Satan himself.
@Yaa gyae Gyimi kekano.It's not worth commenting. What if the man is lying.I always say that the problems of NDC are their inability to do in depth and deep analysis. Somebody caught tellingtelling telling the court he stole to support a political party just to have some sympathy and u can't even discern on this one.What about all these NDC former appointees whose names are pupping up for corruption's.Can u blame their Churches because most of them are church elders. A ***barred word*** is a ***barred word*** no matter which political party he belongs to.You wait and see the corrupt revelations coming out in the few weeks.You heared about SSNIT,Zoom Lion, Cocoboard,Brazil saga,$14 million vice presidential mansion etc.Notorious Destroyers criminals that's NDC. Continue supporting criminals anything u are hearing about NDC is not pleasant. Corruption everywhere. We will retrieve all our stolen monies and jail them to.Nonses.
posterity will judge. Are these not the same people who claimed Mahama's administration is corrupt. Many cases will be coming from the NPP. This man needs to slaughtered for stealing from a private purse to support "acclaimed incorruptible people". Posterity will indeed Judge.
God is watching them. Put him at the right place to go and learn sense. Ghana is actually suffering in the hand of these crooks. Then NDC was better.
Who do you expect to defend somebody who has behaved recklessly in the performance of his duties. This is not NPP matter how do you go and steal to finance a political party with the promise 'If' we come to power we will pay back. This is CRIMINAL.