Central Regional Chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Bernard Allotey Jacobs, has asked embattled business mogul Alfred Agbesi Woyome to stop wasting everyone's time and pay back his judgement debt to the State.
According to Allotey Jacobs, it is glaring that Mr. Woyome is only seeking to delay the enforcement of the court's ruling after perhaps, squandering the GHC 51.2 million he fraudulently received as judgement debt.
Contributing to a panel discussion Peace FM "Kokrokoo" Wednesday, he said Mr. Woyome should also mention the names of everyone who partook in the sharing of the spoils.
“If he has squandered the monies, he must pay up as simple as ABCD. He should also mention names if he disbursed some to other people,” Chairman Allotey said.
Roping in ACHPR
Lawyers for the National Democratic Congress (NDC) financier filed the application at the apex court to stay proceedings, as well as curtail efforts by the state to evaluate his properties until a determination of another related case being heard at the African Court on Human and People’s Rights in Arusha, Tanzania.
The application was filed in January this year when government decided to sell his properties to offset the GHS51.2 million paid to him as judgement debt.
The court had ordered him to pay back the money on grounds that the contract between the state and Waterville Holdings Limited for the construction of stadia in 2006 for CAN 2008 was unconstitutional and invalid.
In his application, the businessman alleged that government did not respect the terms of the agreement that governed the financial engineering role he played in the transaction, and as such his rights and freedoms recognized under the African Rights Charter had been violated.
Woyome's lawyers argued that until the African Court had given its ruling, the decision of the Supreme Court would invariably affect the decision of the former – a position Deputy Attorney General Godfred Yeboah Dame vehemently opposed.
Even before a panel of five judges, presided over by Justice Jones Dotse could give its ruling, Woyome’s lawyer, Osafo Buabeng, had moved another motion which sought to arrest the ruling of the court based on the application to stay proceedings.
He argued that the African Court had directed the government to halt the seizure of Woyome’s properties and any other moves that could infringe on his rights, until it makes a final decision on the matter before it.
Pyrrhic Victory
Although the African Court had ordered the government to halt the attempts to retrieve the money, it was short-lived as the judges decided to set aside the order.
In a unanimous decision, they dismissed the motion for lacking merit, legal or factual basis to arrest the judgement of the apex court.
On the substantive application seeking to halt attempts by the state to retrieve the money, as well as oral examination into Mr. Woyome’s sources of income, the court equally threw that out.
The panel of judges said the Attorney General is only carrying out its constitutional mandate in retrieving the money as imposed on it by the Constitution.
According to the judgment, the Supreme Court does not share its jurisdiction with any other court – be it national or international – and its decision is not affected by the directive of the African Court.
It is also the case of the panel of judges that Woyome and his lawyers failed to demonstrate how the court’s action was an infringement on his human rights.
The decision of the court to throw out the application gives the state the green light to continue to evaluate and seize more of Mr Woyome’s properties.
Source: Ameyaw Adu Gyamfi/Peacefmonline.com/Ghana
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This woyome case is one that has be prejudice as many times by the public even as the case is still in court. It is rather unfortunate that some Ghanaians rather have assumed the position of the attorney general in this matter. If Allotey Jacobs knows any better than woyome, the supreme court or the attorney general, the NDC should not have lost central region so badly. If he has any evidence, he should help the case by going to court. Else, he should just shut the fuuuuuuucckkkk up. Mr. Woyome is a businessman and knows what is best for him. He is a Ghanaian and has the right to exhaust all channels available to him.
African court can halt a Ghanaian government on Woyome's stolen money why not halt the slave trade in Libya? After all Woyome was trained in Libya to steal millions from Ghana...what joke in African judiciary. This case is Ghanaian problem of which one man had used his party members to steal a huge sum of money and an African court says what?
Where are the children with the sharp teeth? Let them tell that iiddiioott that it is time for him to pay up what he wrongfully stole or defrauded and also mention his accomplices. Those who shared the booty must show up and pay the money.
They are not taking interest that’s why he is fuoling around
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Wayome should listen to the NDC Central Regional Chairman and name those involved in sharing the booty and collect them back to pay the Government as it was wrongly given to them. He just want to delay or drag the case for a while. He knows he will by-all means pay.
I hope Kwei Pratt and Koku Anyidoho are listening to Allotey.