3News sources at the Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO) have confirmed that the leader of the Liberal Party of Ghana (LPG), Kofi Akpaloo is being investigated for fraud, causing financial loss to the state, dissipation of public funds, falsification of documents and money laundering.
The 2024 Presidential Candidate has been granted GHC10m bail and with 2 sureties to be justified. Akpaloo remains in EOCO custody.
The Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO) arrested Kofi Akpaloo at his residence in Kumasi on September 3, 2025.
The arrest operation was conducted by EOCO’s Surveillance and Asset Recovery Unit (SARU) from the Headquarters in Accra in coordination with the agency’s Ashanti Regional Office.
EOCO is yet to release a statement on Akpaloo’s arrest.
Percival Kofi Akpaloo is a Ghanaian politician. He is the leader of the Liberal Party of Ghana. He was also the party’s presidential candidate for the 2020 Ghanaian general election.
Akpaloo founded the Independent People’s Party (IPP) in 2011. He was the leader of the party when it contested the 2012 Ghanaian general election but won no seats. He was disqualified from contesting the 2016 Ghanaian general election as the presidential candidate of the party by the Electoral Commission of Ghana, a decision he unsuccessfully contested in court.
Akpaloo dissolved the IPP and formed the Liberal Party of Ghana in its stead in March 2017. He was selected by the party to stand as its presidential candidate in the 2020 Ghanaian general election on 7 December 2020. Margaret Obrian Sarfo was chosen as his running mate.
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