NDC to hold news conference on Abodakpi’s conviction

The opposition National Democratic Congress will hold a news conference on Tuesday to react to the conviction of its Member of Parliament for Keta, Daniel Abodakpi.

Party executives and MPs held a crisis meeting late Monday to take a critical look at the verdict.

Mr. Abodakpi has been handed a ten-year jail term for causing financial loss of ¢2.73 billion to the State. He was found guilty on seven counts of conspiracy, defrauding and willfully causing financial loss to the state.

Speaking to Joy News ahead of the news conference, the NDC's Director of Communications and MP for Bole-Bamboi John Mahama said the party believed the sentence was excessive.

“Lawyers in our party are looking at the judgement and see whether it was based on the evidence so issues about the judgement itself will come up but I don't think that there is going to be any appeal based on the amnesty. I won't run away from the fact that it was a competent court of jurisdiction that did the conviction but even then I think that it was an excess in terms of the sentencing.”