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Businessman, Alfred Agbesi Woyome has threatened to name and shame certain politicians manipulating the judgement debt case involving him and the state. This was after an Accra High Court presided over by His Lordship Justice John Ajet-Nassam on Monday April 30, 2014 struck out his application of no case. Mr. Woyome in his application sought to convince the court to dismiss several claims brought against him part of which indicated that he defrauded the state under false pretence. Justice Ajet-Nassam in his brief judgement gave Mr. Woyome up to May 5 to open his defense. The ruling implied that Mr. Woyome would have to mount the witness box to prove beyond reasonable doubt that the GHC 51 million paid to him as judgement debt was justifiable. Disappointed Mr. Woyome after the court sitting said the court had opened the flood gates for him to tell the full story of his incarceration. He said, �As my lawyers plan that there should be an end to this matter because they have not been able to establish anything against me, I agree with them, but I think that this opportunity that has come today will give me a court room opportunity to be able to tell the good people of this country about what happened from the beginning to the end for them to understand and take a cue from me.� �No matter the situation, whether government or not, the constitution of this country must be protected and each individual must stand firm and make sure that the right thing is done,� Mr. Woyome fumed. He added, �Officialdom is not something we should take for a ride; officialdom is embedded in the constitution for your right including my right and I thank God who has led me throughout these two and half years of something that has been prolonged deliberately or whatever it is, I don�t know.� Mr. Woyome therefore instructed his legal team to quicken the pace of filing his defense to enable him reveal what happened and the politics behind it. Counsel for Mr. Woyome, Lawyer Musah Ahmed described the ruling as fair, but was quick to add that the legal team will fast track filing the defense. �I am okay with the ruling and I feel that the judge has been fair to both parties; he has seen and digested the evidence, evaluated it and it is his considered opinion that we should open our defense.� Lawyer Musah�s assured, �We can assure you that we have a reasonable defense, we are going to open our defense and cast reasonable doubt on the prosecution�s case so that what we are seeking to achieve in the end we will achieve it.�