[ 2016-11-25 ]

Prez Mahama has an interest in Woyome's judgment debt - Martin Amidu
Former Attorney General, Martin Amidu claims that
President John Mahama is against efforts to
retrieve the GH₵ 51.2 million Alfred Agbesi
Woyome owes the state.
According to him, Mr Woyome and the government are
in cahoots and will do everything possible to
delay the constitutional processes that will
enable him to examine Woyome.

"They don’t want the case to come on and they
will buy as much time as possible", Mr Amidu
stated in an interview on Citi FM.

He was speaking after the Supreme Court today
adjourned to Dcember 1 the case involving the
former Attorney-General Martin Amidu who was
expected to question the NDC financier, for
illegally keeping GH₵ 51.2 million of state
money.

The Court had on November 16, 2016, granted
permission to Mr Martin Amidu to examine Mr Alfred
Agbesi Woyome over the judgment debt.

But Lawyers of the embattled NDC financier
Wednesday filed two writs in the Supreme Court
seeking a review of an earlier decision that would
have allowed Mr Amidu to orally examine Alfred
Woyome on the GH₵51 million judgment debt.

He stated that although the Attorney General did
not interfere by filing a motion this time around,
their reaction shows they are complicit in the
case.

"The fingers of the president are not seen within
the document but his reaction to the application
of the examination clearly shows that he has a
vested interest,” he said.

He explained that, “It would be embarrassing for
government to file the application for a stay of
proceedings which the public will know after all
they don’t want to collect the money".

He reiterated earlier calls for the president to
be voted out if the money is to be retrieved.

“I encourage everybody to vote NDC members of
parliament but i cannot in conscience, in defense
of the constitution vote for this president," he
stated.

Mr Amidu added that "The only way to get the money
is to vote this president out because consistently
he has not been able to have the muscle to do it
and had I examine Woyome you would see what I mean
that he and his government are complicit."

Source - Graphiconline

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