[ 2016-11-17 ]

Woyome accuses court of hounding him
Businessman Alfred Woyome has been responding to a
Supreme Court ruling granting former Attorney
General Martin Amidu an opportunity to cross
examine him.

At a hurriedly arranged live FACEBOOK interview
with Graphic Online after the ruling, the
embattled businessman said “I disagree totally
with the ruling today” and accused the Supreme
Court of scheming to "disgrace" him.

“I am speaking as a citizen, and I feel that the
Supreme Court is persecuting me,” he lamented

The Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday morning that
the two men should face off in court in the case
involving alleged fraudulent acts on the part of
Mr. Woyome which led the state to make a huge
payment of GHS 51m to him.

Last week, the Attorney General filed court
documents indicating a suspension of
government’s attempts to retrieve the monies
from Mr. Woyome. That appears to have prompted Mr.
Amidu to return to the Supreme Court, which had
ordered the retrieval of the money, urging the
court to allow him to cross-examine Mr. Woyome in
court.

Mr Amidu’s decision to file a writ to
cross-examine the businessman and NDC financier
followed a move by the Attorney General to
discontinue oral examination of Mr Woyome.

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 the amount, after Mr. Martin Amidu
challenged the legality of the judgment debt paid
the businessman, Waterville, and Isofoton.

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.

Making his case on why he thinks the Supreme Court
is pursuing him, he claimed that after an earlier
judgment served on him to pay the GHc 51 million,
the Supreme Court rejected his mode of payment.
According to him, he had wanted to pay GHc4
million, and spread the rest over a period of
time; but his appeal was rejected by the Supreme
Court.

“I proposed to pay 4 million cedis and pay the
rest in the following months…but the Supreme
Court denied and threw it out,” he said. Mr.
Woyome complained that, after the rejection of his
mode of payment, the Supreme Court further ordered
the A-G to valuate his properties saying such a
move was to “disgrace me.”

He also cited a number of cases which to him shows
that the court was against him.

Source - Peacefmonline

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