The Minority in Parliament is alleging that former Microfinance and Small Loans Centre (MASLOC) boss, Sedina Tamakloe-Attionu, was not held in prison custody for fifteen clear days following her extradition from the United States of America, only being jailed on 24 June 2026.
Addressing a press conference on Thursday, 25 June 2026, Manhyia South Member of Parliament, Nana Agyei Baffour, asserted that she was only remanded into custody following intense public pressure and scrutiny from the Ghanaian media.
He claimed that Interior Minister, Muntaka Mohammed-Mubarak, only confirmed her imprisonment during an interview with the media because he knew she had finally been transferred there the previous day.
Speaking to the Parliamentary Press Corps, the MP disclosed that Tamakloe-Attionu had been sent to a medium-security prison but refused to reveal the exact location.
“We can categorically state that until yesterday, 24 June, Madam Sedina Tamakloe was not in prison,” the lawmaker stated. “And so, from the ninth of June when she arrived to the twenty-fourth of June yesterday, she was not in prison custody. That is a matter of record. Again, she was only sent to prison custody, as I said, on the 24 of June—fifteen clear days later—and that was why the Minister of the Interior could confidently come out yesterday and confirm to Ghanaians that she was in custody.”
According to the Minority, Communications Minister, Felix Kwakye Ofosu, had previously responded to the situation with controversial statements, which prompted the media to keep pushing for answers.
To address this mounting pressure, the government transferred her to prison.
“We can again confirm that she is in the female wing of a medium-security prison installation, but we are not going to put the name of the facility out,” Nana Agyei Baffour continued. “We are not going to put the name of the facility out for the following reasons. One, our intelligence is that she went in under protest because her assurance was that they were not going to have her in prison custody, and that they were going to work around the clock to have the decision overturned so that she would have her liberty. It is only because of the public pressure that the government has decided to deliver her into prison custody. Our intel is also that they have assured her that whichever is earlier—be it the public pressure coming down or the decision of the court coming out—she will be allowed to go out.”
The MP explained that withholding the name of the facility would prevent authorities from using safety and security concerns as a pretext to remove her from the prison. He added that she had been given further assurances that the government would do everything possible to overturn the judicial decision.
Sounding a note of caution, the lawmaker warned the government that the Ghanaian public is watching closely, noting that citizens are exhausted by the state protecting its own in corruption-related cases.
“Ghanaians are tired,” he stressed. “They can’t have it anymore. We must be seen to be acting on corruption and not protecting our own. That has been the trend of this government since it assumed office. It filed nolle prosequi in respect of cases where members of the NDC were standing trial, and now it is playing games with the conviction and sentencing of Sedina Tamakloe—indeed, by preventing her from serving her prison term. For the fifteen days that she had been in Ghana, the government had interfered with a lawful order of a court of competent jurisdiction, and that is contempt of court. And the government will only do that because Madam Sedina Tamakloe is one of its own, and that has been the trend.”
The Minority assured the public that they will continue to monitor the situation closely and provide regular updates.
By: Rainbowradioonline.com/Ghana
