{"id":467307,"date":"2018-02-24T19:30:36","date_gmt":"2018-02-24T19:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2018\/02\/24\/give-state-attorneys-10-of-retrieved-booty-to-boost-morale-kofi-bentil\/"},"modified":"2018-02-24T19:30:36","modified_gmt":"2018-02-24T19:30:36","slug":"give-state-attorneys-10-of-retrieved-booty-to-boost-morale-kofi-bentil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/02\/24\/give-state-attorneys-10-of-retrieved-booty-to-boost-morale-kofi-bentil\/","title":{"rendered":"Give state attorneys 10% of retrieved booty to boost morale &#8211; Kofi Bentil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">General News of Saturday, 24 February 2018<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>Myjoyonline.com <\/p>\n<p>2018-02-24<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/77599118.295.jpg\" alt=\"Kofi BentilNews Filesaturday\" title=\"Kofi BentilNews Filesaturday\" width=\"295\" height=\"182\" \/><span class=\"play-icon\">play video<\/span><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Kofi Bentil<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n<p>\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=151125817929577\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151125817929577\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/1519500636_114_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">Private legal practitioner, Kofi Bentil, says state attorneys are not properly motivated to go after stolen state monies.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, giving 10% of retrieved state monies to the prosecuting attorney will motivate the attorneys to push harder.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2026if I know I will be given $100,000 if I go after $1million, I will be motivated to do so,\u201d Mr. Bentil said on Joy FM\u2019s Newsfile programme, Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>He noted, the poor conditions of service of the state attorneys create a potential hazard that could compromise the lawyers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2026imagine one underpaid state attorney going after stolen $10million, why won\u2019t he be given a $100,000 and the case will end there,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2026we need to understand the moral stress and temptation that our attorneys come under\u2026because the work is very difficult and if they don\u2019t do it well the whole nation losses,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Kofi Bentil also suggested that some of the prosecutions be left to private legal firms to do since that will lessen the burden on the state attorneys whose department is understaffed.<\/p>\n<p>Bentil\u2019s comments come a day after former top government appointee, Abuga Pele, and businessman Philip Assibit, 6 years and 12 years respectively, by an Accra High Court for numerous counts including causing financial loss to the state.<\/p>\n<p>The duo was indicted for infractions caused during contracts relating to the GYEEDA programme in the erstwhile John Mahama-led government.<\/p>\n<p>Lawyers for Mr. Pele have not spoken to the press but the businessman\u2019s lead counsel has noted that his client will appeal the conviction.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/content.jwplatform.com\/players\/mjsPBoDV-GtVgZhNx.html\" width=\"600\" height=\"350\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"auto\" allowfullscreen=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 72 updated by: 72 --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Start of html generated by 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after stolen state monies. According to him, giving 10% of retrieved state monies to the prosecuting attorney will motivate the attorneys to push harder. \u201c\u2026if I know I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":467308,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-467307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=467307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}