Former Deputy National Security Coordinator, Alhaji Salifu Mimina Osman has praised the Minister for Lands and Natural Resources for facilitating his release from prison.

Chief Osman thanked the Damongo MP, Samuel Abu Jinapor, for ensuring that he received presidential pardon in August.

Chief Alhaji Osman, was speaking at the palace of the Paramount Chief of the Buipe Traditional Area, Buipewura Abdulai Abdulai Jinapor (II) when he paid a visit to the chief to help him extend his gratitude to his son.

Alhaji Mohammed Muniru Limuna, a former Minister for Agriculture who spoke on behalf of Chief Alhaji Osman Mimina at the forecourt of the Palace of the Buipewura said the visit to the Palace is at the blind side of the Damongo MP.

He explained that there was an issue at the National Communication Authority, (NCA) which resulted in Alhaji Osman being imprisoned for about 5 years.

”When the issue came up, Hon Jinapor did not sleep over it and has been the one on it until Chief Alhaji Osman was released for us and that is the appreciation we came to give to Buipewura,” Alhaji Muniru added.

Background

Abu Jinapor, the Member of Parliament for Damongo and Minister for Lands and Natural Resources through a petition by Kpembewura, has facilitated the release and pardon of Alhaji Salifu Mimina Osman of Gonjaland.

The former Deputy National Security Coordinator was sentenced to a five-year jail term in 2020 for willfully causing financial loss to the state in what has become known as the National Communications Authority (NCA) scandal.

According to a letter from the Presidency, the release of Alhaji Salifu Mimina Osman followed a petition the President received from the Paramount Chief of the Kpembi Traditional area and facilitated by Samuel Abu Jinapor requesting that Alhaji Osman be freed from prison custody on the grounds of good behaviour and ill health.

In the letter dated 1st August, 2023 and signed by the Secretary to President Nana Bediatuo Asante, the President charged the Minister of Interior to take the necessary steps to immediately give effect to the presidential pardon.

The decision by the President was made in accordance with Article 72 (1) (a) of the Constitution in consultation with the Council of State.