The Director of Communications of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Richard Ahiagbah, has revealed that Dennis Miracles Aboagye has reportedly been granted bail in the sum of GH¢50 million with three sureties.
Dennis Miracles Aboagye, an aide to the NPP’s flagbearer, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, was arrested by the Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO) at the Accra International Airport.
The arrest, according to EOCO, is linked to alleged financial and procurement-related irregularities involving about GH¢55 million during his tenure as Executive Secretary of the Inter-Ministerial Coordinating Committee on Decentralisation (IMCCoD).
Speaking on the Channel One Newsroom on Monday, July 13, Ahiagbah expressed hope that the bail conditions would either be met or varied to enable Miracles to secure his release.
“My earlier briefing was GH¢50 million with three sureties. I hope that condition is either met or varied for him to be granted bail,” he said.
Miracles was arrested alongside the former accountant of the Secretariat, Gerald Appiah, as part of investigations into the matter.
EOCO said it placed him on a stop order a week ago as part of an operational plan to arrest him, but he had already left the country without EOCO’s knowledge.
EOCO said officers of the Ghana Immigration Service executed the stop order when Miracles arrived at the Accra International Airport on Saturday, July 11, and handed him over to investigators on Sunday morning.
He subsequently accompanied EOCO officials on a search operation on Sunday, which the agency said was expected to continue.
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