Jailed Abuga Pele pardoned by President Akufo-Addo

Jailed Abuga Pele pardoned by President Akufo-Addo

Abuga Pele pardoned: Reports from the Nsawam maximum security prison confirms that His Excellency President Akufo-Addo of the Republic of Ghana has pardoned the jailed former Member of Parliament and a member of the National Democratic Congress (NDC).

Mr. Abuga Pele was sentenced to a 6-years imprisonment by an Accra High Court in 2018 for causing financial loss to the state when he was a National Coordinator of the defunct Ghana Youth Employment and Entrepreneurial Development Agency (GYEEDA).

He was said to have acted in a manner that resulted in the loss of GH¢4.1 million by government after businessman Phillip Akpeena Assibit had made false claims that he had secured a $65-million World Bank funding for the creation of one million jobs for the youth.