[ 2016-11-22 ]

Woyome accuses state of perpetrating 419 against him
Embattled business man Alfred Agbesie Woyome is
accusing functionaries of the state of
perpetrating 419, or fraud against him.

Mr Woyome insists the "obnoxious" law in the
statutes which allows investors to spend or waste
money on projects only for functionaries of the
state to run to court with a claim that the
agreement is not ratified by Parliament and so it
must be considered null and void cannot bode well
for a nation seeking foreign direct investment.

Speaking with Francis Abban, host of Pulse, a Joy
News program on Multi TV, Woyome said such a
conduct has dire repercussion on the country and
cited cases involving Balkan energy.

"Why should Article 181 make everybody know that
when you bring your money to Ghana and do the work
and the politician sign the contract with you,
they run back to court and tell the court that me,
the politician I didn't send the agreement to
Parliament. The politician is not sanctioned at
all, and the person loses his money. Is that not
419?

"I will pursue the case to its logical
conclusion," he swore.

Woyome returns to court Thursday, to face his
biggest adversary, Martin Amidu in a make or break
cross examination meant to unravel how a ¢51
million judgment debt paid to him in 2010 would be
recovered to the state.

He had received the amount based on a claim that
he assisted the erstwhile Kufuor government to
raise money for the building of a stadia meant for
the CAN 2008 tournament.

But that payment was deemed to be unconstitutional
thanks to an application brought before the court
by former Martin Amidu.

The Supreme Court in July 2014 instructed Woyome
to pay back the money he received from the state
but the financier of the governing party has
failed to do so.

When the Attorney General Marrieta Brew
Appiah-Oppong brought an application to cross
examine Woyome, many thought the end of the five
year scandal had come to an end and that the
country was on the verge of retrieving the money
wrongfully paid.

But that hope was dashed when the same AG later
withdrew the case from the court claiming the
business man had indicated he was going to pay by
providing a new payment plan.

So when Martin Amidu, proceeded to the court with
an application to be allowed to cross examine
Woyome, the court granted his wish and set a
November 24 date for that showdown.

Barely days to the cross examination, Alfred
Woyome has been firing a gun scatter attack on his
biggest adversary Martin Amidu and a section of
the media who he claims have fed the public with
lies.

Woyome said Amidu and the media have formed the
greatest alliance of deceiving the court and
public respectively.

When he was asked whether he had spent the ¢51
million a reason why he could not pay back, Woyome
had a quick rebuttal.

"Spent! What do you mean by spend? Did Mr Woyome
and other people spend money on this country? Are
we a 419 country? Why do you present our country
as a 419 country. Stop it media! It's a disgrace,"
he said.

Mr Woyome who accused Martin Amidu of paying him
the last tranche of the ¢51 million judgment debt
as Attorney General, on the same show produced a
memo purported to have been written by the same
Martin Amidu saying he had nothing to do with the
payment.

He is convinced Martin Amidu has deceived the
court but swore to use the same court to exonerate
himself.

Source - Joyfm

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