The Supreme Court has adjourned to Tuesday 15th November to give ruling on former Attorney General Martin Amidu’s application seeking to cross examine businessman Alfred Agbesi Woyome.
Mr Amidu has prayed the Supreme Court to allow him cross examine Mr Woyome on the GHS51.2 million judgment debt paid to him following the Attorney General’s decision to discontinue an oral examination of Mr Woyome despite serving an earlier notice.
The citizen vigilante accused government of being reluctant to enforce the Supreme Court’s order to retrieve the amount from Mr Woyome.
After hearing arguments from Deputy Attorney General Dominic Ayine to throw out Mr Amidu’s application, presiding judge Justice Anim Yeboah set Tuesday 15th November to give his ruling.
Background
Mr Woyome collected the GHS51million from the state as judgment debt, following the failure of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) administration to pay his percentage for spearheading a financial engineering crusade from Bank Austria towards the construction of new stadia in the build up to CAN 2008.
Even though he was exonerated from all criminal charges, he is supposed to refund the monies back to the state.
In view of that an affidavit was filed by the A-G asking the Apex Court to order the defendant (Mr Woyome) to appear before it on Thursday, November 10, at 9:00 am, “to be examined orally on oath by the A-G whether Mr Woyome has any property or other means of satisfying the judgement debt”.
But the A-G in a U-turn has filed a notice to discontinue the case against Mr Woyome, at the Supreme Court.
Notice of discontinuance, signed by Mrs. Dorothy Afriyie-Ansah, Chief State Attorney, read: “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 Agbesi Woyome] with liberty to reapply.”
Source: Ghana/AccraFM.com
