A member of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and Member of Parliament for Ningo Prampram Mr Sam George Nartey has explained that media reports suggesting that the passport of businessman Ibrahim Mahama has been seized by the Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO) was untrue.
According to him, someone in the person of Ibrahim Mahama was not a flight risk to warrant EOCO to seize his passport.
“Someone who owns a cement factory and owns the kind of businesses that he owns in this country cannot be deemed to be a flight risk and so we should stop this sensationalism,” the legislator said in a radio interview on Class FM on Friday afternoon.
He first met the anti-corruption agency on Tuesday in relation to an ongoing probe over the issuance of the cheques.
There were media reports suggesting that his passport had been seized by EOCO to prevent him from travelling outside of Ghana whilst investigations continue.
EOCO was yet to officially make public what they were looking into but Graphic Online gathers it is in relation to the cheques issued to the GRA with regard to some goods cleared at the Tema Port.
In the radio interview, Mr George said: “another falsehood that has been put out there and has to be corrected is that Ibrahim’s passport has not been seized, as I speak to you he is in possession of his passport.”
“When he went to EOCO on Wednesday, EOCO made a copy of the data page of his passport, his passport is still in his possession. Ibrahim is not a flight risk, someone who owns a cement factory and owns the kind of businesses that he owns in this country cannot be deemed to be a flight risk and so we should stop this sensationalism,” he said.
Supporters of businessman Ibrahim Mahama are massing up at the Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO) in Accra, ostensibly in solidarity with him, following an invitation to answer questions on a number of cheques he issued to the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) in 2016.
