[ 2016-11-14 ]

Woyome saga: Omane Boamah’s education is shallow – Amidu
Martin Amidu has parried off allegations of lies
against him by Communication Minister, Edward
Omane Boamah, regarding a Supreme Court ruling on
the Woyome judgement debt case.

According to Martin Amidu, contrary to what the
Communication Minister says, he has never been
“a damn big liar” in the action he commenced
in the Supreme Court on 22nd June 2012 at the
Supreme Court to retrieve some 51 million
judgement debt fraudulently paid to businessman,
Alfred Woyome.

“The drunken tantrums cowardly thrown by Omane
Boamah shows the shallowness of his education,
understanding, and lack of diligence and industry
in researching matters he is to defend the
Government on in public.

“Simple common sense would have informed the
almighty Minister of Communications who sought to
take over Multi TV/Joy FM to insult me that in
arguing my case before the Supreme Court on 10th
November 2016 I referred the Court to its own
unanimous decision given in my favour on 29th July
2014,” Mr Amidu said in opinion piece released
Monday.

Omane Boamah! The Supreme Court unanimously
declared Lithur-Brew’s Austro-Invest Limited as
joint looters with Woyome not Amidu: By Martin A.
B. K. Amidu

I have never been a “damn big liar” in the
action I commenced in the Supreme Court on 22nd
June 2012 in the case of Martin Alamisi Amidu v
(1) Attorney General (2) Waterville Holding
Company Limited (BVI) (3) Austro-Invest Management
Services Limited, and (4) Alfred Agbesi Woyome or
in any application I have made to the Court in
connection with that case as Edward Omane Boamah,
the Minister of Communications, is reported by 3
news.com on Ghana Web to have charged me with on
Multi TV/Joy FM’s news analysis programme,
Newsfile on Saturday 12th November 2016.

The substantive case concluded on 29th July 2014
and all I have sought to do is to ensure that the
orders of the Court to Woyome to refund the
whopping GHC51.2million is obeyed timeously as
mandated by Article 2 of the 1992 Constitution. It
does no credit to the Government which created,
looted and shared the unconstitutional payment
with Woyome to send its Minister of Communications
and other junior Ministers to attack my character
and person.

My application dated 4th November 2016 for leave
to examine on oath Mr. Woyome as to his means and
property to satisfy the judgment debt was heard on
10th November 2016. The case was adjourned for
ruling to 15th November 2016 with an admonishing
to the parties not to comment further on the case.
The Government does not demonstrate any respect
for the rule of law and the independence of the
judiciary, particularly of the Supreme Court, when
the Government unleashes its Communications
Minister to charge me with being a “damned big
liar” and demand that I purge myself of my lies
on a live TV/ radio show, as reported.

Edward Omane Boamah’s major charge against me is
that I told “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
benefitted from the GHC51.2million wrongly paid to
Woyome.”

The cabinet Minister is reported to have insisted
that: “Mr. Amidu lied when he claimed that the
Attorney General’s firm was on the side of Mr.
Woyome when in fact the firm was rather against
Woyome.” The riotous Minister is said to have
demanded, pestering the host of the show to “Get
Martin Amidu to speak to his lies”,
-“insisting that 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”. The conduct of the
Government’s Communications Minister confirms
the Government’s impunity and abuse of power in
acting unconstitutionally to control the content
of even private media houses such as Multi TV/Joy
FM.

The drunken tantrums cowardly thrown by Omane
Boamah shows the shallowness of his education,
understanding, and lack of diligence and industry
in researching matters he is to defend the
Government on in public. Simple common sense would
have informed the almighty Minister of
Communications who sought to take over Multi
TV/Joy FM to insult me that in arguing my case
before the Supreme Court on 10th November 2016 I
referred the Court to its own unanimous decision
given in my favour on 29th July 2014.

The Supreme Court made three declarations and one
order in my favour. The first is: “1. A
declaration that the Honourable Attorney General,
the 1st Defendant Respondent, in this case in
paying or ordering the payment by the Republic of
Ghana of claims by the 3rd Defendant and
Austro-Invest, …is inconsistent with and in
contravention of Article 181(5) of the 1992
Constitution…and are according declared null,
void and without effect whatsoever. The third
declaration is: “3. A declaration that the
conduct of the 3rd Respondent, therein Plaintiff,
jointly with Austro-Invest management limited in
making claims upon and including the issuance of a
writ of summons with the support of 2nd defendant
therein and receiving payment premised upon the
breaches…is in consistent with and in
contravention of Article 181 (5) of the
Constitution.” I am attaching herewith a PDF of
a certified true copy of the entire decision of
the Court dated 29th July 2014 for ease of
reference by doubting Thomases like the
Government’s lazy or unread Communication’s
Minister. Truth can never be silenced!

The Austro-Invest referred to in declarations 1
and 3 as acting jointly with Woyome, and the
Attorney General to have created, looted and
shared the GHC51.2million from the public purse is
the very Austro-Invest which Marietta Brew
Appiah-Opong, the current Attorney-General
(appointed in early 2013) admits her firm of
Lithur-Brew and Co acted for against Woyome after
the loot was paid to Austro-Invest and Woyome. The
declarations of the Supreme Court are clear that
the loot was procured jointly by Woyome and
Austro-Invest Management Services Limited whom the
Communication Minister admits was Lithur-Brew and
Co.’s client. The GHC51.2million loot ordered by
the Court to be refunded was money, which
according to declaration 3 was paid to Woyome and
Austro-Invest jointly, and which the Government
and the current Attorney General from Lithur-Brew
and Co have refused or failed to retrieve for the
public purse for such a long time.

This is why it is not fair to call me a bad name
and hang me without referring to the declaration
granted by the Court and the situation in which
the Government and the current Attorney General
from Lithur-Brew and Co now find themselves. The
indefensible aspect of the Austro-Invest case is
that at the time Lithur-Brew and Co went to the
High Court after the payment of the loot jointly
to Woyome and Austro-Invest to ask for a share of
the loot from Woyome, they were purporting to act
for a company which had ceased to exist to their
knowledge, unless they were grossly negligent as
lawyers. It is of no moment to me whether they
acted directly for Woyome or indirectly or for
Austro-Invests’ share of the joint loot from
Woyome. This matter was exhaustively dealt with
last year on my website, martinamidu.com, and in
the media with the supporting evidence of the
pleadings filed on Austro-Invest’s behalf by
Lithur-Brew and Co.

I relied on the unanimous decision of the Supreme
Court dated 29th July 2014 making two declarations
against Woyome and Austro-Invest, the client of
Lithur-Brew and Co in my arguments to the Court on
10th November 2016 and nobody should jump the gun
by calling me “a big damn liar” and perjurer
while the case is pending. I am constrained from
making any further comment on the case apart from
calling the public’s attention to the final
decision of the Supreme Court, a public record, in
respect of Austro-Invest Management Services
Limited which is admitted to have been the client
of Lithur-Brew and Co, the firm of the current
Attorney General. No lies!

Source - Martin A. B. K. Amidu

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