A Ghanaian citizen, Daniel Marfo Ofori-Atta has petitioned the Director-General of the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) to commence an investigation against Supreme Court Justice Yonny Kulendi and businessman Richard Jakpa for ‘obstruction of justice’ and ‘interference’ in the ambulance case.
The said case; “Republic V. Cassiel Ato Forson & 2 Others,” involves charges of causing financial loss to the state related to the procurement of 200 ambulances during the first Mahama administration.
The case was commenced by the previous Akufo-Addo administration in January 2023 by the then Attorney General, Godfred Yeboah Dame.
However, few months after assuming office, the current administration discontinued the case and acquitted the accused persons.
Mr Jakpa has since been appointed as the Director of Operations at the National Security Council.
Mr Jakpa had earlier on July 23, 2025 addressed a petition to the Director of the CID, accusing former A-G Godfred Yeboah Dame of soliciting his cooperation to “testify in a manner to incriminate the first accused,” Dr. Ato Forson (now Minister of Finance), and to help “fast-track the conclusion of the case.”
The petition details a phone conversation allegedly held on March 26, 2024, between Mr. Jakpa and Mr. Dame, which Jakpa claims he has attached as evidence.
However, a petition dated September 29, 2025 and signed by Daniel Marfo Ofori-Atta of House No. B24, Nana Marfo Crescent, Bronikrom, Kyebi argued that the actions of Justice Kulendi and his cousin, Richard Jakpa, during the trial border on the commission of crimes relating to interference with legal proceedings.
The petition outlines a series of alleged meetings and communications during the period of the case which the petitioner says constitutes an “interference in the prosecution of the criminal case.”
Petitioner’s claims
1. From the proceedings at the trial, on 18th January, 2022, after Richard Jakpa had been arraigned in court, he solicited the help of his cousin, Justice Yonny Kulendi, to procure the assistance of the then Attorney- General to facilitate the release of Richard Jakpa when he had not satisfied the conditions of the bail granted to him. Justice Kulendi actually went to the office of the former Attorney-General, Godfred Dame, to request that his cousin be permitted to go home.
2. At the trial (under cross-examination by the Director of Public Prosecutions), Richard Jakpa confessed to obtaining the telephone number of Attorney-General Godfred Yeboah Dame from Justice Yonny Kulendi, after which he confidently attempted to meet with Mr. Dame and inundated him with many Whatsapp messages. All these were tendered in evidence at the trial on 18th June, 2024. It is on record that Mr. Dame refused Richard Jakpa’s invitation to meet with him.
3. The evidence shows that from the time Richard Jakpa first got in touch with Attorney-General Godfred Dame via Whatsapp, he sent in all sixty- eight (68) WhatsApp messages to him, in reply to which the then Attorney-General sent only two (2). Richard Jakpa confirmed this under cross-examination by the Director of Public Prosecutions, Mrs. Yvonne Atakora-Obuobisa.
4. Furthermore, it is indisputable that when Mr. Dame turned down Richard Jakpa’s overtures to meet, Justice Yonny Kulendi, in breach of the Code regulating his work as a Superior Court Judge, lured the then Attorney-General into meetings at his (Justice Kulendi’s) residence on no less than four occasions. Justice Kulendi would then secretly invite Richard Jakpa to come over to his house, and interfere in the legal proceedings pending against Jakpa by impressing upon Mr. Dame to stop the prosecution of the former, or ensure that the prosecution would let him go free at the submission of no case stage of the trial. This is borne out by the record of proceedings at the trial.
The petitioner contends that the above claims demonstrates a “calculated effort” that is “not only dishonourable but also borders on the commission of crimes in accordance with the Criminal and Other Offences Act, 1960 (Act 29)”—specifically, crimes relating to interference with legal proceedings.
The citizen is demanding that the CID “conduct an investigation into the conduct of Justice Yonny Kulendi and his cousin, Richard Jakpa, to unravel all acts of criminality disclosed by their conduct, and take such prosecutorial action as is consistent with law.”
The petitioner has attached several documents to his submission, including copies of the WhatsApp communication, and records of proceedings from the trial dated June 6, 18, 20, and 27, 2024, assuring the CID of his assistance with any further information required.
Below is the full petition.
