A leading member of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), Fiifi Boafo, has expressed shock over the former MASLOC CEO’s decision to stay in the United States to be extradited to Ghana to serve her sentence.
His comments come on the back of the verdict by a US court in Nevada enforcing the extradition request of Sedina Christine Tamakloe-Attionu to Ghana to serve her 10-year prison sentence.
The US court ruled that sufficient evidence exist to support the extradition, citing multiple charges including stealing, conspiracy, causing financial loss to the state, and money laundering.
Tamakloe-Attionu was sentenced in absentia in April 2024 for embezzling GH¢3.19 million and causing a financial loss of GH¢90 million to the State.
Commenting on the development on TV3’s BigIssue segment on the NewDay morning show on Monday, April 13, 2026, Fiifi Boafo said the NDC administration has been filing nolle prosequi to discontinue cases involving its members, saying he wouldn’t have been surprised if the woman had been pardoned, had she stayed in Ghana to serve her jail term.
“The reason why I am surprised is that, I think there has been a certain pattern and definitely, I’m not sure she was going to be an exception. Since the NDC took power last year, almost every single individual who was facing trial, a member of the NDC, has been told ‘go home and sin no more’,” he noted, saying his comments is based on previous incidents.
“When you’re doing a research, at least, you can base on what has happened over a period to fairy conclude that this is not going to be an exception,” he added, citing an example of another accomplice in the matter who has been pardoned.
“There was a gentleman who was also pronounced guilty in this same case, Daniel Azeem. Do you know the guy is no more in the cooler? So how different will the case of Sedinam be?”
Even though the former Director of Public Affairs of COCOBOD says he doesn’t expect the government to have freed her without serving any term, he said the administration wouldn’t have allowed her serve the full 10-year jail term.
“I am not expecting that government will act in the manner where Sedinam will eventually not serve her term. But based on what has happened, I do not think that Dr. Dominic Ayine and the NDC administration is going to see Sedinam serve the entire term.
“Just as they have done in the case of all other NDC persons who were facing trial, Sedinam Attionu will be told that ‘serve some six months and we’ll find a way and say that go home and enjoy’ because they have demonstrated it,” he stated.
US court certifies Ghana govt’s extradition request of former MASCLOC CEO, Sedina Tamakloe
