Former Tamale
Central Member of Parliament Insuah Fuseini has spoken out about the arrest and
jailing of his son, Abdul Insuah, in the United States.
Abdul Insuah,
32, was sentenced to two years in prison after a federal jury found him guilty
of his role in a Huntington-based scheme that defrauded individuals in multiple
states through the use of false online personas.
The court also
instructed him to pay $152,000 in restitution and be placed under three years
of supervised release following his time in jail.
Speaking for the
first time on the matter in an interview on Face to Face on Citi
TV, Mr. Fuseini said he was shocked and disappointed by his son’s actions.
However, he said he is of the firm belief that Abdul Insuah was “just caught up
by stupidity and naivety.”
“It is a
difficult thing to take because you train your child to become a good and
responsible person, sit with him to talk to him about what decent life is, and
you try to imbibe in him the importance of hard work and ends up in this
situation is difficult.”
He further
explained that his son registered a company while studying in the US and bought
cars for people until a car deal he had with his fellow students who are
Nigerians led to his arrest.
“He is there as
a student, and he decided to register a company which I never sanctioned
because I believe that if you are sent to school to learn, you must concentrate
on your studies. But he registered the company and was buying cars for people
and I know people he has bought cars for in Ghana, but in this particular case,
he bought a car for his fellow students who are Nigerians, and it turned out
that the money that was used to buy the car was money acquired fraudulently.”
“I support my
son 100 percent because I know him and he is not someone who will be interested
in other people’s things,” Mr. Fuseini added.
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