Quality Grain scandal: I was always dozing in court – Alhaji Ibrahim Adam speaks 19 years on

Former Minister of Agriculture, Alhaji Ibrahim Adam who was indicted in the infamous Quality Grain scandal has revealed that he was always dozing in court.

According to him, his name never came up as having played a key role in the matter for which he had been jailed alongside other officials in the erstwhile Jerry John Rawlings Administration.

Speaking to Motion TV monitored by MyNewsGh.com, he wondered why he was included as one of the suspects when as Trade Minister at the time of the implementation of the project he was not involved in any of the processes.

“I pray every day that one day a lawyer or law student will study the Quality Grain case. I had no business at all. Throughout the trial I was always dozing in court. My name hardly came up…hardly! When I went to give evidence it took me less than an hour. There was nothing to talk about but I paid the price”, he disclosed

It would be recalled that on 29 April,  2003, An Accra Fast Track High Court presided over by Justice Dixon Kwame Afreh sentenced three former top public officials to various terms of imprisonment for their involvement in the Quality Grain Company case.

Kwame Peprah, Former Minister of Finance was sentenced to four years’ imprisonment while Ibrahim Adam, Former Minister of Food and Agriculture and George Yankey, a Former Director of Legal Sector, Private and Financial Institutions of the Ministry of Finance were sentenced to two years’ imprisonment each.

The Trial Judge acquitted and discharged Nana Ato Dadzie, former Chief of Staff and Samuel Dapaah, Former Chief Director of the Ministry of Food and Agriculture. They were charged with conspiracy and causing a financial loss of 20 million dollars to the State in a rice project at Aveyime in the Volta Region.

Source:MyNewsGh.com/2022

Reading his judgement, which went on for seven hours, Justice Afreh, a Supreme Court Judge sitting as an additional High Court Judge, noted that the country had suffered as a result of the misappropriation of public funds adding that laws had been propounded to curb the incident.

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