It was always the case that the antics Manhyia South MP Nana Agyei Baffour Awuah had been using to explain away why he is a person of interest under invitation by the Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO) would only serve him for a while before crumbling in the face of the truth he was trying to suppress.
The fullness of time has come, and now the true details behind his hide-and-seek game are becoming clear.
According to the bombshell revelation, Baffour Awuah took advantage of his engagement by SIC Life Savings and Loans as a debt recovery lawyer to receive what appears to be kickbacks to the tune of more than Ghc3 million.
The Manhyia South MP had, in that alleged criminal enterprise, also ended up causing a financial loss of some Ghc9 million to SIC Life Insurance.
The dirty files emerging from the scandal also show that he acted together with the then Managing Director of SIC Life Savings and Loans, Amma Frimpomaa Dwumah, to pull off the alleged crime.
The two apparently also had the heads of private companies, Equity Life Insurance and Eco Swiss, as abetting connivers.
The revelations are courtesy of Hon. Baidoo Bediako Bernard, the MP for Akwatia in the Eastern Region, whom Baffour Awuah claims to have sued for defamation over the revelations about the apparent thievery.
It is in response to the suit that Hon. Bediako Baidoo is putting out details about the matter that he originally did not want to disclose.
According to the revelations, SIC Life Savings and Loans had, some time in the past, advanced a Ghc6 million loan to a company called Equity Savings and Loans. However, after receiving the loan, Equity failed to repay it. This led to the loan accumulating interest over the years to the tune of Ghc14 million.
To recover the loan, SIC Life Savings and Loans, then headed by President Nana Akufo-Addo’s appointee, Amma Frimpomaa Dwumah, hired the Manhyia South MP and his law firm, Sarkodie Baffour Awuah & Partners, as solicitors.
The pursuit of the case led to the court awarding a judgment of Ghc14 million in favour of SIC. To recover the money, the court went on to impound Equity Savings and Loans’ lands, valued at Ghc25 million, for sale, with the Ghc14 million to be deducted for SIC Life Savings and Loans.
According to Hon. Bernard Bediako Baidoo, the auctioneer had even secured a buyer who was ready to pay for the properties. However, in the build-up to the auction, a company called Eco Swiss emerged and claimed that the lands Equity was surrendering for auction actually belonged to it because Equity had previously sold the lands to the company.
With this development, Hon. Baidoo points out, the next logical step was for the court to issue a notice of dispute and proceed to trial to determine whether the lands had indeed become the property of Eco Swiss.
Rather than do this, however, Baffour Awuah, who was the lawyer for SIC Life Savings and Loans, suddenly announced a decision to seek an out-of-court settlement.
“This is in spite of the fact that you already have a judgment from the court and the auctioneer had a buyer lined up,” Hon. Baidoo said in Twi.
The Akwatia MP also underscored that “there is no evidence that the SIC Board authorised Baffour Awuah to seek the out-of-court settlement.”
The negotiations were, strangely, held between Baffour Awuah and his law firm, acting as solicitors for SIC, and Eco Swiss, despite the fact that SIC had no case against Eco Swiss but rather against Equity Savings and Loans.
At the conclusion of the negotiations, Baffour Awuah returned with what Hon. Baidoo described as a ridiculous settlement, under which he agreed to Eco Swiss’s proposal to pay Ghc5 million instead of the Ghc14 million judgment that had been secured. In this way, Baffour Awuah allegedly caused a financial loss of Ghc9 million to SIC Life Savings and Loans.
Even worse, the Ghc5 million settlement was less than the original Ghc6 million principal loan that Equity had taken from SIC Life.
The plot thickens further after the settlement was agreed upon. Eco Swiss allegedly paid Ghc2.2 million to Baffour Awuah and his law firm. Baffour Awuah had also received Ghc280,000 from SIC Life as legal fees and an additional Ghc600,000 from Equity Savings and Loans.
Hon. Baidoo further revealed that, out of the cumulative amount of more than Ghc3 million that Baffour Awuah and his law firm had received in connection with the case, Baffour Awuah allegedly transferred Ghc1 million to Amma Frimpomaa Dwumah of SIC Life Savings and Loans.
From the revelations, it would appear that Baffour Awuah and the others connived to engineer the shady deal by settling the case out of court for a pittance in exchange for substantial kickbacks.
Consequently, Equity Savings and Loans, Eco Swiss, Amma Frimpomaa Dwumah, Nana Agyei Baffour Awuah, and his law firm, Sarkodie Baffour Awuah & Partners, allegedly acted together in the commission of the act of corruption.
It was against this background that EOCO invited the MP twice as a person of interest after opening a criminal investigation into the matter. However, the MP snubbed both invitations.
The first invitation was dated February 10, 2026. It read: “This Office is investigating allegations of financial irregularities at SIC Life Savings and Loans Company Limited, and your input into the matter is of immense importance.”
“In view of that, you are kindly requested to report to the Executive Director or his representative on Tuesday, February 17, 2026, at 10:00 a.m. at the EOCO Head Office in Accra.”
Out of respect for the MP, EOCO delivered the invitation confidentially. However, rather than respond, the MP conveniently forwarded the letter to the Clerk of Parliament. This was despite the fact that, at the time he allegedly secured the sweetheart deal from his party’s government, he was not an MP.
On February 27, 2026, EOCO, through its Executive Director, Raymond Archer, wrote back to the MP, protesting his actions and stressing that the invitation had been sent to him in his capacity as a partner in his law firm and 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. Also note that failure to honour this invitation may leave us with no choice but to compel him to appear before the Office.”
It was against the background of this hide-and-seek game with EOCO that the Manhyia South MP was accosted by a female EOCO officer at the court complex in Accra on September 23, 2026, in an attempt to effect his arrest.
In response, the MP, who had been in court as lawyer for Salomey Baffoe, the alleged accomplice of UK-based TikTok troll Barbara Asantewaa, alias “Ghana Jollof,” behaved rudely towards the EOCO officer, while some persons in his company physically obstructed the woman from arresting him.
The encounter, which was captured in a video recording, shows the MP pacing around while promising to drive and follow the officer to EOCO. However, rather than driving to the EOCO office, he sped away to Parliament to take sanctuary, even though Parliament was on recess.