Three employees of the Ghana Highway Authority (GHA) in the Brong-Ahafo region have been arraigned before a Sunyani High Court, Commercial Division “A†for allegedly stealing GH¢1, 288,824.00 revenue generated from two toll stations in the region.Â
Pleas of the accused, Messrs Rexford Bosompem, a Senior Accountant, Amidu Adams, a toll collector and Michael Bediako, a toll supervisor, were not taken by the Court presided over by Mr Patrick Baye.
The Court, however, remanded Bediako, a retired supervisor at the Bechem toll station into prison custody to reappear on Thursday, February 15, 2018.
Adams and Bosompem were not in Court when the case was called on Monday.
The presiding Judge however ordered their sureties who represented them to produce the two accused at the next hearing.
Though prosecution was not heard, investigations revealed that in May 2016, the Financial Division of the GHA embarked on an exercise to reconcile toll revenues collected at all toll stations nationwide with the toll lodgements at GCB bank.
In the process, the Division discovered some purported lodgements of toll revenues for a couple of months from Bechem and Fiapre toll stations had not reflected on the Bank statements of the designated Road Fund bank account with the GCB.
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