A Tamale circuit court has remanded into prison custody a National Service person, Ziblim Abdul Latif for issuing fake Ghana Education Service (GES) appointments and posting letters in the Northern Region.
Abdul Latif, who is undergoing his mandatory national service at the Yendi Senior High School, pleaded not guilty.
He was charged with forgery of documents and signature and conspiracy to commit crime.
Meanwhile, the court has issued a bench warrant for the arrest of two other persons in connection with the same crime.
On Tuesday, June 14, the Northern Regional Director of Education, Dr. Peter Attafuah, reported to the police that the suspect allegedly issued fake GES appointments and posting letters to over 100 unsuspecting jobseekers and took huge sums of monies from them.
According to him, the suspect also managed to forge his signature on the letters.
Dr. Peter Attafuah had said, the letters issued by the suspect bear fake signatures of the Director-General and the Regional Director of Education.
According to him, two victims have been to the police station to write statements confirming the suspect’s actions.
“Sometimes we hear some people gathering at the headquarters or even here making noise that they are teachers, and we are not paying them.”
“When you go through this line, and you think that you will receive a salary, you are deceiving yourself because all those that GES recruit, their names are [recorded elsewhere],” Mr. Attafuah said.
The court has adjourned the case to July 5, 2022.
CCF’s crime prevention advocacy
Aside from paying for the fines of petty offenders, Crime Check Foundation (CCF) has been relentless in its advocacy to help reduce crime. It has introduced programmes including the latest ‘Stay Away From Trouble’ as part of its crime prevention advocacy project.
Through these programmes CCF cautions the general public against acts that could land them in trouble in a bid to curb crime.
The Foundation screens one-on-one interviews with prison inmates bringing to bear acts that landed them in prison and the difficulties they face in custody.
