Former Chief Executive of the National Petroleum Authority (NPA), Dr. Mustapha Abdul-Hamid, has been charged alongside nine others for allegedly extorting more than GHC291 million from petroleum sector companies, according to new court filings.
The charges, filed at the Criminal High Court in Accra, accuse the former NPA head, several senior officials, and three companies of conspiring between December 2022 and December 2024 to illegally obtain funds from bulk oil transporters and oil marketing companies.
The accused include Jacob Kwamina Amuah, former Coordinator of the Unified Petroleum Pricing Fund (UPPF); Wendy Newman, an NPA audit officer; Albert Ankrah, Isaac Mensah, Bright Bediako-Mensah, and Kwaku Aboagye Acquaah, as well as the companies Propnest Limited, Kel Logistics Limited, and Kings Energy Limited.
Prosecutors allege the group “acted together with a common purpose” to extort GHC291,574,087.19 and US$332,407.47, funds they were “not lawfully authorised to obtain.”
Dr. Abdul-Hamid — who also served as Minister for Zongo and Inner Cities Development and is a key figure in the New Patriotic Party (NPP) — faces two additional personal counts of extortion.
He is accused of receiving GH¢24 million between January and December 2024 through intermediaries, allegedly from oil companies. A third charge claims that between July 2022 and March 2023, while serving as NPA CEO and Chairperson of the UPPF Management Committee, he engaged in further acts of extortion.
The Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP), which is leading the investigation, says the case forms part of a broader probe into financial irregularities within Ghana’s petroleum distribution sector.
Lawyers for Dr. Abdul-Hamid have previously dismissed the allegations insisting he has “no connection to any assets or funds” cited in the investigation.
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