Government Communications Minister Felix Kwakye Ofosu has dismissed claims that former MASLOC boss Sedina Tamakloe-Attionu was released after her Court of Appeal acquittal, insisting she remains in prison.

In an interview on Channel One TV on Tuesday, August 4, 2026, he stated that Tamakloe-Attionu has been in lawful custody continuously since she returned to the country.

“For the avoidance of doubt. The day that Sedina landed in Ghana till the Court of Appeal made its pronouncements, she has always been in prison custody. So, the claims that she was home and was not kept by Prison authorities are blatantly false…Should we publish pictures or show videos before you believe that she was in prison?” he asked.

Kwakye Ofosu further clarified that the appellate court’s ruling has not led to her release.

He said “I can tell you Sedina has not been released; she’s still in custody.”

In a unanimous decision delivered on Thursday, July 30, 2026, a three-member panel comprising Justices Emmanuel Ankamah, Emmanuel Senyo Amedahe and Samuel Obeng-Diawuo held that the prosecution failed to prove its case beyond reasonable doubt.

The appellate court consequently set aside the convictions entered against Tamakloe-Attionu by the Accra High Court and ordered that she be acquitted and discharged on all charges.

The ruling brings to an end a long-running legal battle stemming from allegations involving Tamakloe-Attionu’s tenure as MASLOC CEO.

She was convicted in April 2024 by the Accra High Court, presided over by Justice Afia Serwaa Asare Botwe, following a trial that began in January 2019. She was initially charged with 78 counts, including conspiracy to steal, stealing, wilfully causing financial loss to the state, causing loss to public property, improper payment of public funds, unauthorised commitment of public funds, money laundering and breaches of the Public Procurement Act.

The prosecution relied substantially on investigations conducted by the Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO), as well as a forensic audit report. It alleged that Tamakloe-Attionu misappropriated and diverted public funds through a number of MASLOC programmes.

Among the allegations were the diversion of a GH¢500,000 facility linked to Obaatanpa Microfinance, the misuse of funds earmarked for sensitisation programmes, the diversion of relief funds intended for victims of the Kantamanto Market fire, and the inflated procurement of vehicles and mobile phones.

Tamakloe-Attionu was tried and sentenced in absentia. She had travelled to the United States in 2021, with permission from the High Court, to seek medical treatment while the trial was ongoing. She, however, did not return to Ghana after her departure.

Following her conviction, Ghanaian authorities secured her extradition to Ghana. She returned to the country on June 9, 2026, and began serving her 10-year sentence at the Nsawam Medium Security Female Prison on June 24, 2026.