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Embattled business man Alfred Woyome will not grant audience to the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) again, his aide, Kwame Tawiah has told Citi News. Speaking on Citi Eye Witness News, Tawiah said the Kan-Dapaah-led committee wasted a golden opportunity on Wednesday to clarify issues with Mr. Woyome over the GhC 51 million judgment debt controversy. Businessman Woyome appeared before the PAC on Wednesday after turning down two previous invitations followed by a threat by Hon. Kan-Dapaah to fall on the Inspector General of Police to drag him before them. But the PAC was forced to suspend sitting because the legal team of the witness argued the Chairman of the committee, Hon. Kan-Dapaah, was ineligible to sit on the case as he was part of the cabinet that allegedly abrogated his contract hence making it unconstitutional for him to preside over the case. Speaking on Citi Eye Witness News, Tawiah explained that "they had the best of opportunity to say whatever was inside their bosom and they failed to do that. Rather they used the opportunity to be interpreting the Constitution which again does not lie in their bosom; it lies in the bosom of the Supreme Court." "The PAC Chairman does not have the power to interpret the Constitution because the lay man's understanding cannot basically redefine the Constitution. That is why the powers have been given to the Supreme Court," he added. Mr. Tawiah also explained that Mr. Woyome did not appear before the PAC due to the subpoena which was served on him by PAC saying, "we told them what they needed to do; to do the right thing and because they listened to us and did the right thing, that is why we went there." "This matter is not over. They say they are writing to us and we will school them and we will tell them to meet us in court," said Mr. Tawiah.