[ 2017-05-04 ]

Alfred Agbesi Woyome

Woyome’s judgment debt case: Gov’t promises ‘good news’ next week
The Deputy Attorney General, Godfred Yeboah-Dame
has revealed that the public will in the next few
days be informed about what he describes as
‘good news’ about the famous Alfred Agbesi
Woyome GH¢51.2m Judgment debt case.

According to him, the Akufo Addo led-government
remains resolute in its commitment to get back the
tax payers hard earned money which was wrongfully
paid to the businessman, adding that the latter
will pay with interest.

Businessman Alfred Agbesi Woyome has petitioned
the International Court of Arbitration of the
International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) over the
GH¢51.2 million judgment debt paid to him by the
past National Democratic Congress (NDC) government
which the Supreme Court has ordered him to
refund.

The apex court ruled that he got the money
wrongfully.

Per an arrangement between Mr Woyome and the
Attorney General, he started refunding the money
by instalments in November last year.

According to the arrangement, he was supposed to
have made a second part payment of GH¢5million by
April 1, 2017, but no payment has been made as of
now.

An aggrieved Woyome dissatisfied with the ruling
by the Supreme Court has resorted to an
international body to determine the matter.

But speaking to Bola Ray on Starr Chat on Starr FM
Wednesday, Hon. Yeboah-Dame stated that his outfit
will go the full length in ensuring that the
whopping amount of money is returned to state
chest.

“It is important to note that the case that
he’s filed in London does not amount to a stay
of execution, it does not amount to a restraint on
our efforts to pursue the judgment debt. I’m
sure very soon you’ll hear of some good news.
We’re pursuing the money together with
interest.

There’s a CI 52 which empowers the accrual of
interest on judgement debt and we’ll make sure
that the interest on it will be fully paid by
Alfred Agbesi Woyome.

It is a very sad episode in the history of the
nation that such amount of money could be paid to
an individual and these are some of the things
that we’ve been talking about. Perhaps if we had
an Independent Prosecutor, we would have had
better results than we saw.”

Source - kasapafmonline.com

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