See list of accusations levelled against Ex-NAFCO CEO Hanan Abdul-Wahab

The Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Dr Dominic Ayine has said that his office will soon file formal charges including stealing, conspiracy to steal, willfully causing financial loss to the state, and other related offences against the former Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the National Food and Buffer Stock Company (NAFCO), Hanan Abdul-Wahab.

At a press briefing in Accra Wednesday [Oct 22], dubbed Government Accountability Series, Dr Ayine provided a list of luxury assets reportedly acquired by the former CEO in his personal capacity using public funds during his tenure. 

"I called the criminal enterprise operated by Mr Abdul-Wahab and his collaborators at the Buffer Stock “the Rumble in the Jungle” not only because of the huge amount of money at stake but because of the fact that, while food suppliers were wailing and gnashing their teeth due to failure to pay them for supplies to the Buffer Stock, and while our school kids were being denied nutrition under the School Feeding Programme for lack of funds, Mr. Abdul-Wahab and his collaborators were busy lawlessly looting funds meant for the Program," he said.

“On account of the foregoing, we have decided to charge Mr Hanan Abdul-Wahab and his wife, Faiza Seidu Wuni with stealing, conspiracy to steal, willfully causing financial loss to the state, using public office for profit, obtaining public property by false statements and money laundering,” Dr Ayine said.

He mentioned that the total known value of the identified properties was approximately $3.3 million (excluding the cedi-valued assets).

Abdul-Wahab was first picked up by the Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO) in June 2025 over alleged financial and procurement-related infractions at NAFCO.

Per the Attorney-General's presentation at the press briefing, the former NAFCO CEO allegedly used proceeds of crime to acquire the following properties:

• A five-bedroom house at Chain Homes worth $1.625 million.

• A three-bedroom house at Cantonments valued at $600,000.

• Plots of land at Airport Development worth $750,000.

• A 17-bedroom boutique hotel at Gumani in Tamale valued at $250,000.

• A four-bedroom bungalow at Dzorwulu, Accra, costing GH¢4,142,451 (Four Million, One Hundred and Forty-Two Thousand, Four Hundred and Fifty-One Ghana Cedis).

• A 0.32-acre government land purchased for GH¢307,200 (Three Hundred and Seven Thousand, Two Hundred Ghana Cedis).