A prosecution witness in the ongoing Accra Sky Train trial has confirmed and tendered several email exchanges involving members of the Board and Investment Committee of the Ghana Infrastructure Investment Fund (GIIF), which made repeated references to the Sky Train project—despite his earlier testimony that the matter was discussed only once at board level.

According to a TV3 News report, Yaw Odame-Darkwa, a former GIIF board member and Chair of its Audit Committee, produced the emails on the fourth day of cross-examination at the High Court in Accra. The disclosure followed a court order directing him to retrieve, authenticate and submit the correspondence.

On the third day of cross-examination, counsel for the first accused challenged Odame-Darkwa’s claim that the Sky Train project had been introduced to the board only once. The court allowed the witness, who is testifying for the prosecution, to verify emails presented to him.

After examining the documents, Odame-Darkwa confirmed the authenticity of at least 16 emails exchanged between July and September 2018 among GIIF board and Investment Committee members. The emails, many of which included attachments such as meeting agendas and investment memoranda, were admitted into evidence without objection.

Several of the correspondences explicitly referenced the Accra Sky Train project and were circulated ahead of scheduled Investment Committee meetings. They were shared alongside documents relating to other GIIF projects, including the Safari Hotel, Woodfields Tank Farm and Mahama Hotel.

The court also admitted minutes from an Investment Committee meeting held on July 31, 2018, which recorded a presentation on the Sky Train Monorail Project. The minutes showed that committee members expressed support for the initiative but requested additional information before any recommendation could be made to the GIIF Board.

During cross-examination on December 15, Odame-Darkwa conceded that he could not confirm whether a subsequent Investment Committee meeting scheduled for September 28, 2018, actually took place. He further admitted that he did not review the committee’s minutes before making statements to investigators at the National Investigations Bureau (NIB) in March 2025 or before submitting his witness statement to the court.

Despite these admissions, the witness maintained that the Investment Committee never formally recommended the Sky Train project to the board, insisting that this position was consistent with the minutes admitted into evidence.

In addition, the court admitted excerpts from the 2021 Auditor-General’s report on GIIF and the Fund’s 2019 audited financial statements. The documents confirmed Odame-Darkwa’s role as Audit Committee Chair at the time and bore the signatures of the former Board Chair and Chief Executive Officer.

The trial involves former GIIF Board Chair Professor Christopher Ameyaw-Akumfi and former Chief Executive Officer Solomon Asamoah, who are facing charges including causing financial loss to the state and dissipation of public funds over a US$2 million payment made in relation to the Sky Train project. Prosecutors allege that the payment was effected without board approval and that no work was ultimately carried out.