{"id":1092850,"date":"2022-05-19T15:05:55","date_gmt":"2022-05-19T15:05:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/05\/19\/manasseh-azure-responds-to-the-allegations-leveled-against-the-former-ppa-boss\/"},"modified":"2022-05-19T15:05:55","modified_gmt":"2022-05-19T15:05:55","slug":"manasseh-azure-responds-to-the-allegations-leveled-against-the-former-ppa-boss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/05\/19\/manasseh-azure-responds-to-the-allegations-leveled-against-the-former-ppa-boss\/","title":{"rendered":"Manasseh Azure responds to the allegations leveled against the former PPA boss."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/d924d3467fd049689a4c053123e95a7e\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Manasseh Azure Awuni, an award-winning investigative journalist, is pleased with the outcomes of his contract for sale documentary.<\/p>\n<p>The inquiry discovered that a business called Talent Discovery Limited (TDL), owned by Adjenim Boateng Adjei, a former head of the Public Procurement Authority (PPA), was obtaining government contracts through restricted tendering and then selling them to others for profit.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Awumi added on Adom FM&#8217;s Dwaso Nsem show that he is glad the expose&#8217; was not abandoned like others in the past.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I applaud the authorities for their prompt action in this matter. After the probe, President Akufo-Addo suspended him [Adjenim Boateng] for two days and dismissed him on the advice of the CHRAJ.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I believe that if Akufo-Addo had handled all previous corruption instances in this manner, some of us would not have had issues with him.&#8221; &#8220;There are some that we&#8217;ve done that didn&#8217;t get this far, even though the state had enough evidence to get a conviction,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>His remarks follow the Special Prosecutor&#8217;s filing of 17 corruption-related accusations against him.<\/p>\n<p>The CEO has been charged with eight charges of profiting from public office and nine counts of influencing the procurement process to gain an undue advantage in the awarding of a procurement contract.<\/p>\n<p>The Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice also found him guilty of conflict of interest (CHRAJ).<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Mr. Adjei is scheduled to appear in court for the first time on May 25, 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Source: adomonline.com<\/p>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: BassTV (via  Opera<br \/>\nNews )<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p class=\"copyright hide\">\n<span class=\"content\">    ,  .   ,     .       () , , , , , , , , .      \/ ,  and\/or  .     ,  , and\/or  ,      and\/or     <\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"see-more\"><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<section class=\"tags\">\nAdjenim Boateng Adjei<br \/>\nAkufo-Addo<br \/>\nManasseh Azure Awuni<br \/>\nPPA<br \/>\nTalent Discovery Limited<br \/>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manasseh Azure Awuni, an award-winning investigative journalist, is pleased with the outcomes of his contract for sale documentary. The inquiry discovered that a business called Talent Discovery Limited (TDL), owned by Adjenim Boateng Adjei, a former head of the Public Procurement Authority (PPA), was obtaining government contracts through restricted tendering and then selling them to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1092851,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[2393,8681,566,12695,8682,6880,2979],"class_list":{"0":"post-1092850","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-top-stories","8":"tag-allegations","9":"tag-azure","10":"tag-boss","11":"tag-leveled","12":"tag-manasseh","13":"tag-ppa","14":"tag-responds"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1092850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1092850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1092850\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1092850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1092850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1092850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}