[ 2016-11-12 ]

Martin Amidu is a ‘damn liar’ – Omane Boamah
Communications Minister, Dr. Edward Omane Boamah
minced no words when he discredited a former
Attorney General Martin Amidu as a “damn big
liar”.

The minister went riot throwing a challenge to
Martin Amidu, who served under his government and
a member of his party -National Democratic
Congress -, to purge himself of lies on a live
TV/radio show.

The former Attorney General who describes himself
as a citizen vigilante has been very instrumental
in the state’s case against businessman Alfred
Agbesi Woyome in the scandalous GHC51.2million
judgement debt payment.

The state is currently pursuing Woyome for
repayment.

Contributing to a discussion on MultiTV/Joy FM’s
news analysis programme, Newsfile, on Saturday,
Dr. Omane Boamah listed a number of claims Mr.
Amidu made in court and his public treatise,
describing them as “lies”.

He therefore accused Mr. Amidu of “perjury”,
when he asserted that “Martin has told lies to
the Supreme Court”.

The Minister recalled Mr. Amidu telling the courts
that the current Attorney General Mrs Marietta
Brew Appiah-Opong’s firm, Lithur-Brew and Co
represented Austro-Invest, a company he claimed
benefited from the GHC51.2million wrongly paid to
Woyome.

He also mentioned cases such as Alfred Agbesi
Woyome vrs Raymond Archer (a journalist), and
Raymond Smith (Ray Smith) a shareholder of
Austro-Invest and Managing Director of M-pawapak
Ltd vrs Alfred Agbesi Woyome.

Dr. Omane Boamah insisted that in all these cases,
Mr. Amidu lied when he claimed the Attorney
General’s firm was on the side of Mr. Woyome
when in fact the firm was rather against Woyome.

It was based on these that the Minister in a fit
of rage projected the former Attorney General that
“he is a damn big liar”.

“Get Martin Amidu to speak to his lies,” Dr.
Omane Boamah demanded, pestering the host of the
show Samson Lardy Anyenini to call Martin Amidu
into the show, but the host will not budge.

The Minister virtually hijacked the show insisting
that the “the truth is being sacrificed” with
the host’s show of disinterest in allowing the
Communications Minister to direct how the show
should be run.

Mr. Amidu recently expressed distrust in
government’s determination to retrieve the money
from Mr. Woyome when the latter promised to pay
the GHC51.2 million in quarterly installment of
GHC5 million.

He therefore applied to the Supreme Court to
examine businessman Alfred Agbesi Woyome, which
was opposed by both the AG and Woyome’s lawyer.

Source - 3news.com

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