[ 2016-11-16 ]

Woyome saga: Supreme Court to rule on Amidu’s application today
The Supreme Court will today give its judgement on
Former Attorney General, Martin Amidu’s
application praying the court to allow him to
cross examine business man, Alfred Agbesi Woyome
over the refund of the 51 Million Cedi judgment
debt paid him.

The ruling which was scheduled to be delivered
yesterday [Tuesday] was deferred by the judge
,Justice Anin Yeboah through the Supreme Court’s
registrar without any reason.

Mr. Amidu’s action followed a move by the
Attorney General’s (AG) office, led by the
Minister for Justice, Marietta Brew Appiah-Oppong,
to discontinue an oral examination of Mr. Woyome,
despite serving an earlier notice.

The notice of discontinuance stated that “please
take notice that the 1st Defendant Judgment
Creditor [Attorney General] herein has this day
[26th Day of October 2016] discontinued the
present application to orally examine the 3rd
Defendant Judgment Debtor [Alfred Agesi Woyome]
with liberty to reapply.”

Background

Alfred Woyome was paid ¢51 million after he
claimed that he helped Ghana to raise funds to
construct stadia for purposes of hosting the CAN
2008 Nations Cup.

However, an Auditor General’s report released in
2010, said the amount was paid illegally to the
National Democratic Congress (NDC) financier.

The Supreme Court in 2014 ordered Mr. Woyome to
pay back ¢51 million fraudulently taken from the
state, after Mr. Martin Amidu, a former Attorney
General challenged the legality of the judgment
debt paid the businessman, Waterville, and
Isofoton.

Following delays in retrieving the money, the
Supreme Court judges unanimously granted the
Attorney-General clearance to execute the
court’s judgment ordering Mr. Woyome to refund
the cash to the state.

Woyome prevents officials from valuing residence
Mr. Woyome in April 2016 prevented officials of
the Attorney General’s Department and the Lands
Commission from having access to his Kpehe
residence for valuation.

The move was part of a directive from the Supreme
Court to retrieve monies illegally paid to him.
But Woyome resisted the move, saying the planned
valuation was illegal.

Mr. Woyome had earlier won the criminal
prosecution that sought to imprison him for the
offence.

Source - Citifmonline

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