Investigative journalist and coordinator of the civil society-led Pledge Against Corruption campaign, Manasseh Azure Awuni, has filed a right to information (RTI) request to the Ju
The report indicates that investigative journalist and coordinator of the civil society-led Pledge Against Corruption campaign, Manasseh Azure Awuni, has filed a right to information (RTI) request to the Judicial Service, asking for detailed timelines of Sedina Christine Tamakloe Attionu’s appeal.
It further notes that sedina Tamakloe, the Chief Executive of the state-owned Microfinance and Small Loans
Centre (MASLOC) from November 2013 to January 2017, was acquitted and discharged by the Court of Appeal on July 30, 2026.
She was convicted and sentenced to 10 years in prison by the High Court (Financial Crimes Division) on April 16, 2024, after a trial in absentia. She had failed to return to Ghana after the court granted her permission to seek medical care in the United States.
She had been charged with seventy-eight counts of Conspiracy to Steal, Stealing, Conspiracy to Willfully Cause Financial Loss to the State, Willfully Causing Financial Loss to the State, Causing Loss to Public Property, Improper Payment of Public Funds, Money Laundering, Unauthorised Commitment Resulting in Financial Obligation for the Government and Contravention of the Public Procurement Act.
On May 9, 2024, while she was still at large, court records indicate that Sedina challenged her conviction at the Court of Appeal, which acquitted her after she was repatriated from the United States in June 2026 to serve her sentence.
While the Court of Appeal judgment has generally been received as sound, doubts still linger in the minds of a section of Ghanaians about the timelines of her appeal. Though the Appeal was stated to have been filed in May 2024, the Attorney-General’s Department is stated to have been notified only in February 2026, fueling conspiracy theories about possible underhanded dealings.
The Attorney-General and Minister of Justice from 2021 to January 2025, Godfred Yeboah Dame, stated in a press statement that he had not heard about Sedina’s appeal at the time he left office.
Manasseh’s RTI request of the Judicial Service seeks to lay the matter to rest. It seeks an explanation of the nearly two-year delay in notifying the Attorney-General’s office of the appeal, as well as key evidence of the filing timelines.
Manasseh requested the following information from the Judicial Service:
1. The date and time Suit Number H2/17/2026 (Sedina Christine Tamakloe Attionu Vs.
The Republic) was filed. (Attach Form 2 and Form 6 of the processes relating to this
2. The date and time the suit above was served on the Office of the Attorney-General. (Please attach proof/affidavit of service indicating when the appeal was served on the
3. Photocopies of receipts of payment of bonds, as well as all receipts of payment made by the appellant for any other processes in this case.
