Investigative journalist Manasseh Azure Awuni has renewed concerns over the whereabouts and custody of convicted former Microfinance and Small Loans Centre (MASLOC) Chief Executive Officer, Sedina Attionu-Tamakloe, urging authorities to clearly disclose where she is being held.
Speaking on Citi FM on Saturday, June 20, he questioned the transparency surrounding her detention following her recent extradition to Ghana.
Manasseh Azure Awuni said he does not accept assurances that she is in custody, insisting that the public deserves clear information on her exact location.
“Long before her coming in, I have heard and many people in Ghana may also have heard that we have a system in this country where some influential people when they are convicted and said to be in jail don’t actually go to prison,” he said.
He added that some sections of the public believe convicted persons are sometimes kept in undisclosed locations and moved in and out of custody, describing the situation as worrying.
“It is a whole lot of mess,” he said.
He further argued that there is nothing preventing authorities from openly disclosing where a convicted person is being held.
“I don’t think anything prevents this administration from telling us that this person has come in, he came in on this date, he is in Nsawam Prison or he is at the Cantonments Police Cells, and if everybody goes there, they will find him,” he stated.
“What stops the government from telling us where she is, which prison, which police cells she is being kept?” he asked.
Sedina Attionu-Tamakloe, who was convicted in absentia in 2024 and sentenced to 10 years imprisonment for causing financial loss to the state and stealing, was recently extradited from the United States and received by security personnel upon her arrival in Ghana.
She is expected to serve her sentence following a lengthy extradition process initiated by the Government of Ghana after she failed to return from a medical trip abroad during her trial.
Source: Adomonline.com
