Also known as: Mr. Nimako Marfo · Mr Nimako Marfo
Gary Nimako Marfo — Director of Legal Affairs of the NPP, commenting on party primaries costs and bail conditions in recent cases.
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The Chronicle
… Mr Gary Nimako Marfo, Director of Legal Affairs of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), represented Mr Samuel Atta Akyea, the substantive lawyer for Wontumi. …
Court adjourns Wontumi’s application for bail to October 15Joy Online
The Legal Affairs Director of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Gary Nimako Marfo, says the recent Court of Appeal decision acquitting former Chief Executive Officer of the Microfinance and Small Loans Centre (MASLOC), Sedina Tamakloe-Attionu, has strengthened his confidence that As …
Sedina appeal ruling gives hope to Wontumi appeal — NPP legal directorJoy Online
The Director of Legal Affairs of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Gary Nimako Marfo, has expressed mixed views about the Court of Appeal’s decision to acquit and discharge former MASLOC Chief Executive Officer Sedina Tamakloe-Attionu, saying he agrees with some aspects of the judgm …
Gary Nimako questions Court of Appeal’s decision to acquit Sedina TamakloeJoy Online
… The panel features Gary Nimako Marfo – Director, Legal Affairs, New Patriotic Party (NPP) Inusah Fuseini – Former Member of Parliament for Tamale Central and Former Minister for Lands and Natural Resources Mary Awelana Addah – Executive Director, Transparency International Ghana …
Livestream: Newsfile discusses Supreme Court rulings, Sedinam Tamakloe’s legal twist, and OSP powersJoy Online
… The panel featured Gary Nimako Marfo – Director, Legal Affairs, New Patriotic Party (NPP) Inusah Fuseini – Former Member of Parliament for Tamale Central and Former Minister for Lands and Natural Resources Mary Awelana Addah – Executive Director, Transparency International Ghana …
Playback: Newsfile discussed Supreme Court rulings, Sedinam Tamakloe’s legal twist, and OSP powersThe Ghanaian Times
The Director of Legal Affairs of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Gary Nimako Marfo, has questioned who will bear the cost of conducting presidential and parliamentary primaries following the Supreme Court’s ruling on the party’s delegate system. …
Who will pay for expanded primaries?- Gary Nimako questions Supreme Court rulingJoy Online
The Director of Legal Affairs of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Gary Nimako Marfo, has described the GH¢50 million bail condition imposed by the Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO) on New Patriotic Party (NPP) member Dennis Edward Aboagye, popularly known as Miracles Aboag …
GH¢50m bail condition for Miracles Aboagye oppressive and excessive – Gary NimakoJoy Online
… The witness, George Annan, a Bolt driver who told the court he previously worked as a driver for the mother of the accused, made the admission while being cross-examined by lead counsel for Madam Oware-Mensah, Gary Nimako Marfo. …
NSA trial: Witness admits no evidence backing claim Ghana Card was used to register company linked to Gifty Oware-MensahJoy Online
… By early June 2025 the team had grown to include Dame, Appiah-Kubi and a new arrival, Gary Nimako Marfo, the NPP’s director of legal affairs, who had been brought in on the instructions of Wontumi’s wife as the family pressed for his release from the custody of the Economic and O …
Twice in a year, Chairman Wontumi’s lead lawyer has walked awayThe Chronicle
… During the continued cross-examination of the prosecution’s first witness, Gilbert Sebe-Yeboah, Head of Commercial Banking at ADB, defence counsel, Gary Nimako Marfo questioned the bank’s basis for transferring funds from the NSA Hire Purchase Suspense Account to Blocks of Life C …
Gifty Oware Challenges Authorization Of Funds From ADB To Blocks Of Life Consult LimitedBernard Antwi Boasiako (Wontumi), a former Ashanti Regional Chairman of the NPP serving a 20-year sentence for facilitating illegal mining activities, sought bail pending appeal. The High Court adjourned his application to October 15, 2026, due to the indisposition of the judge scheduled to hear it.
20 August 2026 · The Chronicle →
Bernard Antwi Boasiako (Wontumi), a former Ashanti Regional Chairman of the NPP serving a 20-year sentence for facilitating illegal mining activities, sought bail pending appeal. The High Court adjourned his application to October 15, 2026, due to the indisposition of the judge scheduled to hear it.
20 August 2026 · The Chronicle →
The NPP's Legal Affairs Director says the Court of Appeal's recent acquittal of former MASLOC CEO Sedina Tamakloe-Attionu strengthens prospects for Ashanti Regional Chairman Bernard Antwi Boasiako (Wontumi) to overturn his conviction on appeal, citing similarities in the legal issues between the two cases.
1 August 2026 · Joy Online →
The Director of Legal Affairs of the NPP has criticised the Court of Appeal's decision to acquit former MASLOC CEO Sedina Tamakloe-Attionu, arguing the court imposed an excessively high burden of proof on prosecutors and that a retrial might have been more appropriate than overturning the conviction.
1 August 2026 · Joy Online →
JoyNews' Newsfile programme will host a four-hour panel discussion examining landmark Supreme Court decisions, the Court of Appeal's overturning of Sedinam Tamakloe's conviction and 10-year prison sentence (which collapsed 78 charges), and the constitutional implications of recent judicial pronouncements including the Court's ruling on the Constitutional Review Commission's delegate system.
1 August 2026 · Joy Online →
JoyNews' Newsfile programme examined landmark Supreme Court decisions, the overturned conviction of former MASLOC CEO Sedinam Tamakloe Attionu (which collapsed 78 charges and set aside her 10-year sentence), and the Court's ruling declaring aspects of the Constitutional Review Commission's delegate system unconstitutional.
1 August 2026 · Joy Online →
The New Patriotic Party's Director of Legal Affairs has questioned who will bear the cost of conducting presidential and parliamentary primaries following the Supreme Court's ruling that all members in good standing should vote in party elections. He noted that allowing all members to vote would increase the cost of organising internal party elections.
29 July 2026 · The Ghanaian Times →
Gary Nimako Marfo, Director of Legal Affairs of the NPP, has described the GH¢50 million bail condition imposed on Dennis Edward Aboagye (Miracles Aboagye) by the Economic and Organised Crime Office as excessive and oppressive. Aboagye was arrested as part of investigations into alleged financial and procurement irregularities at the Inter-Ministerial Coordinating Committee on Decentralisation, where he previously served as executive secretary.
14 July 2026 · Joy Online →
A prosecution witness in the trial of former NSA Deputy Director-General Gifty Oware-Mensah admitted under cross-examination that he has no evidence to support claims that the accused used his Ghana Card to register a company. The witness also acknowledged not knowing when the company in question, Blocks of Life Consult Limited, was incorporated, and could not respond when defence counsel established the company was registered in April 2016, before the witness obtained his Ghana Card in 2020.
23 June 2026 · Joy Online →
Andy Appiah-Kubi, the lead lawyer for NPP Ashanti chairman Bernard Antwi-Boasiako (Chairman Wontumi), has walked away from defending him in an illegal mining case for the second time in over a year, citing "unseen influences" compromising the trial's integrity. The departure comes as judgment is due July 3 and as Wontumi separately seeks plea negotiations in a fraud case involving the Ghana Export-Import Bank.
11 June 2026 · Joy Online →
Former NSA Deputy Executive Director Gifty Oware-Mensah has questioned the Agricultural Development Bank's claim that transfers from an NSA hire purchase suspense account to Blocks of Life Consult Limited were properly authorised, during ongoing trial proceedings over alleged financial losses of about GH¢38 million. The defence counsel challenged the bank's witness over the absence of documentary evidence specifically authorising the first transfer of GH¢148,841 in February 2023, despite the bank's reliance on what it described as a standing instruction.
5 June 2026 · The Chronicle →
The defence counsel in the trial of Gifty Oware-Mensah, former Deputy Executive Director of the National Service Authority, has questioned the basis of transactions from an ADB account linked to a Higher Purchase Facility for National Service Personnel, specifically transfers to Blocks of Life Consult Limited. The prosecution witness, Head of the Commercial Banking Department of ADB, confirmed that Oware-Mensah was not a director, shareholder, or beneficial owner of the company.
4 June 2026 · Joy Online →
The Supreme Court has dismissed an application to halt the High Court trial of Gifty Oware-Mensah, former Deputy Executive Director of the National Service Authority, who faces charges of causing financial loss of more than GH¢38 million to the state. The court ruled that the accused's constitutional challenge to a practice direction does not justify suspending the trial.
19 May 2026 · Joy Online →
The High Court in Accra admitted a letter allegedly written by former National Service Scheme Deputy Executive Director Gifty Oware-Mensah directing the Agricultural Development Bank to transfer GH¢31 million into her company's private account, though the judge noted the document was faint and ordered the prosecution to file a clearer copy.
19 May 2026 · The Ghanaian Times →
A letter allegedly written by former NSS Deputy Executive Director Gifty Oware-Mensah directing the Agricultural Development Bank to transfer funds to her private company has been admitted into evidence in her trial for the alleged loss of GH¢38 million in the National Service ghost names scandal. Oware-Mensah faces charges including stealing, wilfully causing financial loss to the state, using public office for profit, and money laundering; she has pleaded not guilty and been granted bail.
18 May 2026 · Joy Online →
The High Court's Criminal Division 4 has rejected an oral application by the defence to stay proceedings in the National Service Scheme scandal trial. The defence counsel had sought to suspend proceedings pending a Supreme Court application challenging the constitutionality of a 2018 practice direction, but the trial court found no evidence that the Supreme Court application had been properly served.
11 May 2026 · Joy Online →
The High Court in Accra has dismissed an application by former National Service Authority Deputy Executive Director Gifty Oware-Mensah seeking to halt her trial. Justice Audrey Kocuvie-Tay ordered the prosecution to proceed with its case, with the matter adjourned to May 11.
28 April 2026 · The Ghanaian Times →