The former Chairman of the Public Procurement Authority Board, Professor Christopher Ameyaw-Akumfi, has been released from detention by the National Intelligence Bureau.
This comes after he was detained in connection with an inquiry into financial irregularities while serving as the Board Chairman of the Ghana Infrastructural Investment Fund (GIIF).
Prof. Ameyaw-Akumfi’s release was confirmed by his legal counsel, Ken Kuranchie.
According to Ken Kuranchie, Prof Ameyaw-Akumfi was at his residence on Sunday morning when a group of guys in three pickup trucks arrived and informed him that he was required at the NIB.
He readily followed them to the NIB headquarters and was then transported to the NIB offices in Kawukudi, Accra.
Kuranchie claimed that the probe focusses on financial irregularities that occurred during Prof Ameyaw-Akumfi’s tenure as GIIF’s board chairman, including some permissions issued at the time.