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NPP Parliamentary candidate for Ledzokuku, Dr. Okoe Boye has called for the dismissal of the first Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Ebo Barton Odro.

It could be recalled that in the heat of the judgment debt saga, Mr. Barton Odro insisted that the State had no case in the saga.

Speaking on Peace FM's 'Kokrokoo' programme, Dr. Okoe Boye fired salvos at the first Deputy Speaker of Parliament over such comments he made regarding the Woyome judgment debt saga.

Despite the unambiguous judgment delivered by the Supreme Court that the controversial financier of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mr. Alfred Agbesi Woyome, obtained the much publicized Ghc51 million from the state without any legal basis and that he does not deserve the money, the former Deputy Attorney General, Ebo Barton Odro still insisted the state had no case to defend, when the businessman sued.

Barton-Odro, currently First Deputy Speaker of Parliament, was quoted as saying on a local radio station in Cape Coast after the Supreme Court ruling: “I still stand by what I said that the state had a bad case.”

According to him, Ghana will be heading for trouble should Mr. Barton Odro also Member of Parliament (MP) for Cape Coast North remain in his position as Deputy Speaker of Parliament.

“When I see somebody like Barton Odro being the First Deputy Speaker of Parliament of this country, I know that Ghana; we’re headed for trouble. This man, the then Deputy Attorney General could say he has scrutinized Ghana and we have no case. In fact, we have no case. We have to refund Woyome’s money to him,” Dr. Okoe Boye said.

He was making submissions on the Supreme Court ruling for former Attorney General, Martin Amidu to orally examine Alfred Agbesi Woyome.

To Dr. Okoe Boye, though the court ruling is a remarkable feat for the nation; Mr. Barton Odro shouldn't still be in office.

“If these people have conscience, if they have any modicum of respect for themselves . . . Barton Odro should not still be in his office," he stated.