Austin Kwabena Brako-Powers, a legal practitioner, is confident the Attorney-General (A-G) and Minister of Justice, Dr. Dominic Akuritinga Ayine, would not appeal the Court of Appeal’s overturn of Sedina Tamakloe’s case.
He says the A-G’s track record is one of freeing members of his party standing trial for their stewardship, and he does not see him challenging the Court of Appeal’s decision.
His comments come after the Court of Appeal’s ruling on Thursday, July 30, 2026, which acquitted and discharged the former Chief Executive of the Microfinance and Small Loans Centre (MASLOC), Sedina Christine Tamakloe-Attionu.
Speaking on TV3, the lawyer said the Attorney-General’s record suggests he will not show interest in the matter since he has been filing a series of nolle prosequi following their assumption of power.
“I don’t see the Attorney-General going to the Supreme Court to appeal against the decision. And I say so because of the history of the Attorney-General that we have. Just in the early hours of his appointment, he had to enter a string of nolle prosequi and that alone is enough evidence to conclude that he would not appeal against the decision,” he stated.
Brako-Powers explained that the A-G’s actions in the early days of their administration where he released and discharged “key members of the governing National Democratic Congress, coming to trial for various offences” shows the fight against corruption has now become a “game of chess.”
The Court of Appeal on Thursday, July 30, 2026, ruled that the former MASCLOC CEO should not have been sentenced as the prosecution could not prove the charges levelled against her.
Madam Tamakloe-Attionu was in April 2024, convicted and sentenced to 10 years in absentia after the Accra High Court convicted her of 78 counts of offences including stealing, causing financial loss to the state, money laundering and improper payment of public funds.
She has been serving the 10-year prison sentence after being extradited from the United States to Ghana in June 2026.
Her trial began with investigations into alleged financial irregularities during her tenure at MASLOC between 2013 and 2016, resulting in alleged significant losses to the state.
Tamakloe-Ationu was accused of embezzling GH¢3.19 million and causing a deliberate financial loss of GH¢1.97 million to the state.
The former MASLOC boss had travelled to the US for a court-approved medical trip but failed to return, leading to extradition proceedings. She was arrested by US Marshals in Texas and detained at the Nevada Southern Detention Center before being extradited to Ghana on June 9, 2026.
Upon arrival, she was taken into custody and underwent routine medical examinations before beginning her sentence.
Her lawyers filed an appeal at the Court of Appeal in May 2024, to overturn her conviction and sentence, arguing that the charges were defective and lacked sufficient details.
But the court has ruled that the prosecution could not prove the charges levelled against her.
Following her extradition to Ghana to commence her sentencing, concerns were raised over whether she was going to serve the jail term or going to receive a presidential pardon. But some bigwigs in the National Democratic Congress (NDC) insisted President Mahama was not going to grant her any pardon.
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