The Supreme Court has ordered the Receiver of defunct U.T Bank, Eric Nana Nipah, to mount the witness box to be cross-examined by the Attorney General.
This follows the Receiver’s claim of ownership of some properties belonging to businessman Alfred Woyome which the state intends to sell to satisfy a GH₵51.2 million debt Mr Woyome owes the state.
The Attorney General, Gloria Akuffo, had earlier accused Mr Nipah, one of the Directors of audit firm, Price Waterhouse Coopers (PwC), and businessman Alfred Woyome of colluding to prevent the state from selling his properties to satisfy the debt Mr Woyome owes the state.
The Attorney General maintains that the businessman used the said properties as collateral to secure a loan in excess of GH₵9million from the bank months after the bank claimed to have bought the properties.
The three properties in dispute are residential facilities located at Trassaco Valley estates and Accra New town.
Nana Nipah claims the bank acquired them on April 5, 2013, and May 13, 2014.
Justice Benin who is hearing the case gave the order for the cross-examination after he was informed by Mr Nipah’s lawyers that he (Mr Nipah) was out of the country and was not aware he was to testify on Monday.
Justice Benin fixed the cross-examination for Monday, October 22.
Deputy Attorney General, Godfred Yeboah Dame, told Joy News that the state is making a headway in retrieving the money Mr Woyome owes the state since each of the properties is worth about $1.5 million (a little over GH₵ million).
He argues that the state will show that indeed the two properties belong to the businessman by the end of the cross-examination.
Source: myjoyonline.com
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Nana Addo said whiles in opposition "woyome will never happen under my watch" Massa, woyome is happening live under your watch! When they're in opposition they sound like they're human beings.
Woyome walking about as a free man is an insult to the entire criminal justice system in this country. Because others are in jail for steeeling used mobile phones! This is not fair.
Someone has connived with both NPP and NDC and stollenn over $30 million dollars and you think retrieving a 1.5 million dollars is making a headway? Why in the name of mother Ghana is woyome and all those accomplices not in jail? Why are they in town when the dentist who stoll less than a million dollars is in jail? The attorney general herself is behaving like she's compromised.
It seems to Joy News read this article from Peace FM word to word or vice versa. Just as I was reading this article Daniel Dadzie of Joy news started reading the news and that was when I realised that both were copying each other word to word. Journalists are now lazy copying from one another.
the Attorney General is now doing better. more fire.
see how the court is going back and forth on this woyome case but can sentence a woman who stole maize worth GHs 10 with immediate effect.