Deputy Attorney General Dr Dominic Ayine has said that Ghana’s Supreme Court erred in its ruling to grant former Attorney General Martin Amidu the chance to examine businessman Alfred Woyome in court.
According to him, the right to retrieve state property under Article 88 of Ghana’s constitution is the sole preserve of the Attorney General.
According to him, “it is only the AG that can take action with respect to state property”.
The apex court granted the permission to Mr Amidu and said both parties should reappear in court on 24th November. Mr Amidu filed an application to examine Mr Woyome about two weeks ago.
His action followed a move by the Attorney General to discontinue oral examination of Mr Woyome.
The AG’s notice said: “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.”
But My Ayine does not agree with the Supreme Court whose ruling based on Article 2, effectively grants a citizen the right to bring any action to court to protect state property.
For Mr Ayine, “that ruling is an evidential, factual and legal error” and questioned if Mr “Amidu strictly and properly speaking, [could] go into execution?”
“So what will be the purpose of the oral examination?” he questioned, in an interview with Joy FM on Thursday, November 17.
Source: Ghana/AccraFM.com
