The Deputy Attorney General and Minister for Justice, Alfred Tuah-Yeboah, has announced that the government is taking active steps to extradite former MASLOC Chief Executive, Sedinam Tamakloe Attionu, to Ghana to serve her 10-year sentence. Tuah-Yeboah confirmed that Attionu is currently living in the United States, and the government is collaborating with U.S. authorities to ensure her return to Ghana to face justice.
“She was convicted by the court in Ghana sometime ago and after the conviction, I made it known to the media that we were going to take steps to have her extradited to Ghana and we started taking those steps and in collaboration with our intentional partners, we know where she is and very soon, definitely, she may be extradited to Ghana.
“The issue of going through the process is necessary and we are filing all the documentation and if everything goes through, she will definitely come back to Ghana to begin her sentence. She is in the United States of America,” the deputy AG told Umaru Sanda Amadu on Eyewitness News on Citi FM.
Tuah-Yeboah added, “When it comes to extradition processes, for example, you have to go through the court processes to get a court order and what we are supposed to do is furnish the US authorities with whatever we have and wait on them so that the moment they finish with the processes, she will be brought down to Ghana.”
The Accra High Court on Tuesday, April 16, 2024, sentenced Ms. Tamakloe to 10 years in prison for stealing, procurement breaches and causing GH¢90 million financial loss to the state. She was dragged together with a former Operations Manager of MASLOC, Daniel Axim, to court in January 2019. The two were charged with 78 counts of stealing, money laundering, and causing financial loss to the state, among others.
By: Kabah Atawoge
