The High Court has given former Ghana Infrastructure Investment Fund (GIIF) Chief Executive Officer, Solomon Asamoah, and former GIIF Board Chairman, Prof. Christopher Ameyaw-Akumfi, until September 23, 2026, to file their respective defences in the ongoing Sky Train case.
The latest extension is the third time the court has granted the two accused persons additional time to prepare their defences after dismissing their submissions of no case.
The case concerns an alleged US$2 million financial loss to the state arising from payment made by GIIF in 2019 towards an equity stake in the company behind the proposed Ghana Sky Train project that never took off.
The prosecution alleges that the payment was made without the requisite board approval for a project that ultimately failed to materialise, resulting in the dissipation of public funds.
The accused persons had previously argued that the prosecution had failed to establish sufficient evidence to require them to open their defence, but the trial court rejected that submission.
In a Facebook post on Monday, August 24, Deputy Attorney-General and Minister for Justice, Dr Justice Srem-Sai, said the High Court had once again granted the accused persons more time to file their defences.
The latest order comes as the Supreme Court is set to hear an interlocutory injunction application filed by Mr Asamoah’s lawyers on Thursday, August 27.
The application seeks to halt proceedings at the lower court pending a determination of a separate application seeking to quash the trial court’s decision dismissing his submission of no case.
