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Peacefmonline.com can confirm that former Attorney-General and now Minister of Education, Madam Betty Mould-Iddrisu, has resigned her position from government. The former A-G and Minister of Justice tendered in her resignation at the presidency late Monday night, according to peacefmonline sources at the Castle. �I'm resigning with a clear conscience and i'm confident any investigation will exonerate me,� she told a source at the Castle. Her resignation comes weeks after President Mills fired Martin Amidu, Minister for Justice and Attorney General, for "misconduct". Betty had been under pressure to resign or be shown the door over her handling of the payment of about GHS58 million to the businessman and financier of the ruling party, Alfred Woyome, while she was Attorney General. It would be recalled that last week a brigade of journalists in Accra thronged a scheduled press conference by the Education Ministry with the belief that Madam Betty Mould-Iddrisu was going to open up on the Alfred Agbesi Woyome financial scandal, since she had been strongly accused of virtually handing over the GH�58million to the self-styled NDC financier. The former A-G stands accused of failing to defend the case brought against the state by Mr. Alfred Woyome resulting in the payment of GH�58 million judgement debt paid to the NDC financier. Grabbing all their equipment, the paparazzi trooped to the ministry for the embattled minister to state her position only to be hugely disappointed with a �no show�. Her deputy, Mahama Ayariga, who was drafted to stand in for her used the platform to tell journalists what the former A-G and Minister of Justice had been doing to improve the quality of basic education in Ghana. Betty Mould-Iddrisu�s complicity in the whole Woyome saga has to do with the decision to rather negotiate for consent judgment with the embattled NDC guru resulting in the huge money that was paid to him (Woyome). Mr. Woyome claims to have provided financial engineering services to raise funds for the construction of the stadia to host the CAN 2008 tournament, but the contract was terminated and, therefore, sued the government for breach of contract. However, when pressure for the recovery of the money became intense, the Deputy Attorney General, Ebo Barton Odro told the media that he and his boss, Betty, could not defend the case, because it was a bad one and that they even helped the state to save money by negotiating with Woyome to reduce interest on the money that he was demanding from the state. Madam Betty Mould Iddrisu, who signed most of the documents advising the Finance Minister to pay the money, has remained quiet and has not, commented on the issue. Journalists therefore were under the impression fueled by the PR section of the Education Ministry that the press conference was going to be the forum for her to state her side of the story, and name all the personalities those who advised her not to defend the case and also establish the legal basis for which she accepted that advice. The grapevine has it that the decision not to defend the case but rather negotiate for consent judgment came from officials at the Finance Ministry, who advised her that Woyome had a genuine case, after going through all their records.