The Attorney General’s (AG) Department discontinued its case against Alfred Woyome, in the GHc51 million judgment debt saga because it was considering a possible settlement with the defendant, President John Mahama has said.
The AG’s department, led by the Minister for Justice, Marietta Brew Appiah-Oppong, was met with criticism and accusations of corruption following a decision to discontinue an application to examine the one-time NDC financier orally.
Leading the charge against the AG was a former Attorney-General and anti-corruption campaigner, Martin Amidu, as he filed a successful application at the Supreme Court to examine Mr. Woyome following the AG’s discontinuation of the case.
Mr. Amidu in his application to the Supreme Court, alleged among other things that the AG withdrew her application to examine Mr. Alfred Agbesi Woyome, because President Mahama personally gave an order.
Allegations disheartening and false
But the President described the claim as falsehoods brewed for the “purposes of political propaganda,” as he maintained that the AG had “pursued this case relentlessly.”
Speaking at the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation’s presidential encounter series on Wednesday, he explained that, the AG put in application for oral examination, but at the same time, “discussions had been ongoing in respect of a settlement and before that happened, a terms of settlement was granted.”
“So she [the AG] went to the Supreme Court and discontinued the oral examination so that she could look at the terms of settlement and see if it was acceptable, or meet with his lawyers and agree on what the terms were with the option to come back in the event she was not satisfied with the terms,” he stated.
President Mahama further lamented that, there are people “who are just willing to publish any allegations in the papers against the person of the president and there all kinds of false claims, allegations and things – sometimes you read and get disheartened,”
Background to Woyome saga
Alfred Woyome was paid GHc 51 million after he claimed to have helped raise funds to construct stadia for purposes of hosting the CAF 2008 Nations Cup.
However an Auditor General’s report released in 2010, said the amount was paid illegally to the National Democratic Congress (NDC) financier.
The Supreme Court in 2014 subsequently ordered Mr. Woyome to pay back the GHc 51 million fraudulently taken from the state, after Mr. Amidu challenged the legality of the judgment debt paid the businessman and two other companies; Waterville and Isofoton.
Source: Citifmonline
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These are the enemies the Bible talk's about in Luke 19:27 they do evil things and come back to beg, no amount of words can stop God from allowing the change to come for voice of the people is the voice God, let our prayer says what the Bible say's in Luke 19:27 Spiritually bring these enemies before God and slay them for their wicked plans. Mr Prez your mistakes sound like a deliberate once to punish the electorates by increase and invade more taxes so now you have clearly expose how you are that indeed you can not take any decision you are ruing the nation just like the survive of the fitters who can survive your hardship can live, Mr Prez the voices of the people is the voices of God, if I understood the Constitution clearly it didn't say you only have four years that means if you do not win the 2016 election you another chance to contest other elections so stop forcing for the seat which is not yours. Ghana need peaces so be it. God bless Ghana A Change is coming!!!
my full admission is MAHAMA IS INCOMPETENT. PERIOD. OBOFOUR
Oh Mahama! I think Ghanains deserve more than this. Ahba! For Christ sake u r the president of the nation!!! Please "think far" be4 you speak on such issues. You've exposed urseff big tym.
Mr. President, you must be ashamed of yourself. It would have been better if you had made no comments. Shame on you!
Even when it comes to lying, you are incompetent about it. When did the SC order the recoupment of the looted GHC51.2 Million woyome the con artist? Two years ago. What was the A-G doing all these two years? You're a corrupt incompetent ENABLER always protecting your gang of "***barred word***". Your administration and the A-G has no intention of retrieving these dubious judgment debts from woyome and others. Your A-G has no desire to go after woyome because of her law firm which represented ASTRO-INVEST/Woyome in the first place. politically, she's the wrong person to go after woyome because woyome had collaborators from your party and afraid he will sing like a parrot. Shame on you. How dare you try to cover up for this con artist?
Mahama is a theeeeef. I urge as many ppl as possible to vote him out so that woyome is made to refund the money n go to prison
Since when did JM become then spokesperson for the AG. Did we vote for you to become a PR for institutions.
You are a "DAMN LIAR" mahama
MR MAHAMA, IF YOU DON'T HAVE ANY INFLUENCE IN THI SCASE WHY IS WOYOME NOT JAILED, RULE OF LAW SHOULD AS WELL AS INFORM YOU THAT, WHEN A CASE IN PROVEN BELONG EVERY REASONABLE DOUBT, SUCH A PERSON FOUND GUILTY MUST BE EITHER BE FIND OR JAIL. HOW CAN WOYOME BE STOLEN OUR MONEY AND JUST BE ALLOWED TO WALK FREELY ON THE STREET, IS THAT YOUR UNDERSTANDING OF RULE OF LAW AND BEING PATROITIC AND HAVING THE COUNTRY'S INTEREST AT HEART?, MONTIE GUYS ONLY INSULTED THE SUPREME COURT JUDGES YET THEY WERE JAILED AND YOU HAD TO PARDON THEM. SOMEONE ONLY STOLE SOMEONE'S CASSAVA AND WAS ALSO JAILED. WOYOME STOLE OUR GH51.2MILLION GHANA CEDIS ACCORDING TO SUPREME COURT RULINGS AND YOU SAY, THAT'S RULE OF LAW. GOD HAVE MERCY ON YOU MR PRESIDENT.IN ANY CASE HOW MUCH WAS YOUR SHARE AND HOW MUCH WAS USED TO FINANCE THE NDC HEAD QUARTERS?
No wonder the other entities implicated in the judgement debt case for refund could not be pursued. If you can not pursue an individual who has swindled a whole nation of which you are the president, how can you do same to companies and agencies? This is a clear sign of weakness on the part of our president. Change is overdue, change is coming.