President John Dramani Mahama has defended Ghana’s Attorney General, Marietta Brew Appiah-Oppong, who has come under public criticisms in recent times over her handling of high profile cases involving huge sums of money.
According to President Mahama, the AG who is also his Minister of Justice, has done “a phenomenal job” in saving the country close to a billion-dollar in judgement debts, hence deserves to be given national honours. “I think the Attorney General has done a phenomenal job. I mean if you look at the amount of money she’s saved us from judgement debt, that lady deserves a national honour,” President Mahama said.
President Mahama said this in an answer to a question that sought to question the AG’s commitment in retrieving the GHC51 million wrongfully paid to businessman Alfred Agbesi Woyome as judgement debt, which the Supreme Court two years ago ordered its retrieval.
This was when President Mahama took his turn at the GBC-organised Presidential Encounters Wednesday night to talk about his achievements in the last four years and why he should be given another four-year term in this year’s elections.
Many Ghanaians have called for the AG to resign for what they say is her poor performance on the job as well as claims that suggested she benefited about a million dollar from the Woyome judgement debt.
Despite the public criticism of the AG and the call for her resignation, President Mahama suggested Wednesday he was impressed with the performance of Mrs Brew Appiah-Oppong who he said has work relentlessly in fighting some fraudulent judgement debts. “I mean she saved this country nearly a billion dollars in judgement debts by fighting and contesting every case. I gave her a directive…that every judgement debt case, you fight it and so she has fought it,” the President said.
“There were a lot of fraudulent claims; people conniving with government officials, taking documents and hiding them, re-filing for compensation, suing government in court. I mean false contract. I mean I set up a commission to investigate…you should read the commission’s report,” Mr Mahama said.
President Mahama described the judgement debt situation in Ghana as a “very sorry state of affairs” but said, “happily, we’ve cleaned up and so if you come and make a claim against government, we are not go to sit and have a default judgement. Now they go to court and they fight you.”
According to the President, in most of the judgement cases that have come up, it was discovered that “some people have connived to try and rip government off”.
Source: 3news.com
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AAAABA! WE KAN PRESIDOO KORAA BI DIS. THIS WOMAN JOB IS TO ARGUE CASES IN COURT ON BEHALF THE GOVERNMENT AND TO OF COURSE WIN. SO IF SHE IS EXECUTING HER RIGHTFUL DUTIES SHOULD WE JUMP AND SING HALLELUYAH SAKE OF THIS. INFACT THIS PRESIDENT IS MORE THAN GBESHI ON OUR NECKS. HE MUST BE VOTED OUT FROM OFFICE. LIKES TALKING TRAAAASH TOOOO MUCH. HE THINKS EVERYBODY IS AN ILLETRATE TO BE PLAYING ON THIER CONSCIENCE EVERY NOW AND THEN. WETIN BE THIS TOO
MASTER/NUMBER ONE ***barred word*** OCCUPYING THE HIGHEST SEAT OF GOVERNMENT STOOPING THIS LOW TO DEFEND SUCH A LOW POINT OF HIS PRESIDENCY....
The incompetent Mahamah and his appointees are nothing but ***barred word***, period. Their only goal are to enrich themselves at the expense of the nation. Mahamah and the A-G won't collect the money from Woyome why are they trying to be a KONONGO KAYA to block Amidu's effort to collect the money for Ghana? What are they afraid of? What are they hiding from us? Why are they protecting a con artist like woyome? Are they scared woyome will start to sing like a parrot? A th1eve will always protect a follow th1eve. Birds of the same feathers flock together indeed. This is one more reason Ghana needs a well resource strong independent investigative bodies and separation of A-G and justice departments. We're not ***barred word*** and gullible as the think. This is nothing but a collaborative cr1minal FINANCIL RAPE perpetrated by woyome, NDC technocrat and politicians, the president and his appointees with impunity. Change is on the way and they will not get away with it period.
apuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu what honour
And yet could not collect 51m cedis from Woyome? TWEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
She has saved Ghana so much and so what? What was she put there to do?
she is a useeelesss woman! she will be dealt with when we boot out mahama and put a new govt to vigorously fukkkk her up!!! Theeeeef!
SHE DID NOT SAVE GHANA,THAT IS HER JOB
she will be given in due time.
INFACT THIS MAN IS ANNOYING OOO. AAABA. NO WONDER BIRDS OF THE SAME FEATHERS.......