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to pay $ 217,464.00 plus 50% interest to an
American couple, Patricia and Bill Gick, after charges of fraud had been brought against them. Catherine and her husband had failed to honour the instructions of the court. A pressure group calling itself Truth and Accountable Governance petitioned
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President Akuffo-Addo to remove her from her ministerial position. When probed by the committee, Afeku made it known that payment had not been made because an appeal filed in 2013 was yet to be heard; hence, she could not preempt judgement.
521:, with her parents at the stipulated time. Her nomination was approved on 11 February 2017 after she presented the Appointments Committee with a waiver letter given her by the National Service Secretariat. The approval was by consensus.
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Parliament. She lost her re-election bid for parliament in the 2008 general election. She again contested the constituency's seat during the 2016 Parliamentary election, where she defeated the incumbent,
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