[ 2016-11-14 ]

Amidu to Omane Boamah; 'Court declared LithurBrew's Austro-Invest looters'
The drunken tantrums cowardly thrown by Omane
Boamah show the shallowness of his education,
understanding, and lack of diligence and industry
in researching matters on which he is to defend
the Government in public, Mr Martin Amidu, former
Attorney General and Minister of Justice has
said.

According to him, "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."

"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.

Below is a the full response of Martin Amidu

OMANE BOAMAH! THE SUPREME COURT UNANIMOUSLY
DECLARED LITHURBREW’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” while “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 show the shallowness of his education,
understanding, and lack of diligence and industry
in researching matters on which he is to defend
the Government 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 AustroInvest 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!


13th November 2016

Source - Martin A. B. K. Amidu

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