-Manhyia South MP accused in GHC3.1M kickback, GHC9M SIC Life swindle
-Ex-board members deny authorizing sweetheart deal and he bolts to Parliament
By Stanley Asor
Nana Agyei Baffour Awuah is a person of interest for the Economic and Organised Crime Office over an alleged kickback scheme that pulled in more than GHC3 million and left SIC Life Savings and Loans GHC9 million in the hole, according to explosive claims from Akwatia MP Baidoo Bediako Bernard.
And as the heat turned up, past board members of SIC Life Savings and Loans sprinted away from him, telling investigators they never authorized the out-of-court settlement that scooped back only GHC5 million of a GHC14 million court judgment, sources say.
The former board members Chairman Charles W. N. Dugbartey-Nanor, Elizabeth Wyns-Dogbe, Ernestina Afrani, Henry C. E. O. Lamptey, Lawrencia Simpson Adams and Dorcas N. A. Taylor are reportedly distancing themselves as they fear jail time.
Only former Managing Director Ama Frimpomaa Dwumah isn’t exactly running. That’s the same Dwumah who allegedly got GHC1 million wired to her from the more than GHC3 million Baffour Awuah and his law firm are accused of raking in.
The allegations which surfaced after Baffour Awuah sued Baidoo for defamation have not been proven in court. But they read like a tabloid thriller: a state-backed loan, a GHC14 million judgment, a mysterious company, a sweetheart settlement and a lawmaker who allegedly went missing when EOCO called.
Here’s the alleged dirty deal, per Baidoo:
SIC Life Savings and Loans lent GHC6 million to Equity Savings and Loans. Equity allegedly failed to repay.
Interest ballooned the debt to GHC14 million.
SIC hired Baffour Awuah and his law firm, Sarkodie Baffour Awuah & Partners, to recover the money.
A court awarded SIC GHC14 million and impounded Equity’s land, valued at GHC25 million, for auction. A buyer was reportedly ready.
Then Eco Swiss emerged, claiming the land belonged to it because Equity had already sold it. Instead of a trial to settle the dispute, Baffour Awuah the lawyer for SIC allegedly pushed an out-of-court settlement. Baidoo says there’s no evidence the SIC board authorized it.
“There is no evidence that the SIC Board authorised Baffour Awuah to seek the out-of-court settlement,” Baidoo said, according to the account.
The negotiations, bizarrely, were between Baffour Awuah’s firm, acting for SIC, and Eco Swiss even though SIC had no case against Eco Swiss, only Equity.
The settlement was a stunner: Eco Swiss would pay GHC5 million instead of the GHC14 million judgment. SIC lost GHC9 million. The payout was even less than the original GHC6 million principal.
But the cash allegedly kept moving.
Eco Swiss paid GHC2.2 million to Baffour Awuah and his firm, according to Baidoo. SIC Life paid GHC280,000 in legal fees. Equity Savings and Loans paid another GHC600,000. Total: more than GHC3 million.
Baffour Awuah allegedly transferred GHC1 million to Amma Frimpomaa Dwumah, then managing director of SIC Life Savings and Loans and a Nana Akufo-Addo appointee.
Baidoo claims Equity Savings and Loans, Eco Swiss, Dwumah, Baffour Awuah and his law firm all acted together in the alleged corruption.
At the time of the alleged deal, Baffour Awuah was not yet an MP, according to the account.
EOCO invited the MP twice. He allegedly blew them off both times.
A Feb. 10, 2026, letter asked him to report to EOCO’s Accra headquarters on Feb. 17. Baffour Awuah forwarded the invitation to the Clerk of Parliament instead, according to the account.
EOCO Executive Director Raymond Archer shot back on Feb. 27, saying the invite was sent to Baffour Awuah as a law-firm partner, not as an MP.
“Please take notice that any correspondence from the Clerk of Parliament on this matter will not be recognised since the Office is not aware of any established protocol or law which prevents the said person from honouring a lawful invitation,” Archer wrote. “Also note that failure to honour this invitation may leave us with no choice but to compel him to appear before the Office.”
Then came the courthouse chaos.
On Sept. 23, 2026, a female EOCO officer tried to arrest the MP at the Accra court complex. Baffour Awuah was there representing Salomey Baffoe, the alleged accomplice of UK-based TikTok troll Barbara Asantewaa, aka “Ghana Jollof.”
Video of the encounter shows the MP pacing and promising to drive himself to EOCO, according to the account. Instead, he allegedly sped off to Parliament which was on recess while people in his company physically obstructed the officer, the report says.
EOCO is still on the case. Baffour Awuah, meanwhile, is still not at EOCO.
For the ex-board members, the message is simple: Not us. For Baffour Awuah, the legal heat is only getting hotter.