President John Mahama has praised the Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Marietta Brew Appiah-Oppong, for doing a good job in fighting corruption and stopping the payment of monies by the country as judgement debts.
“[The] Attorney General has done a phenomenal job. If we look at the amount of money she has saved us from judgement debts, that lady deserves a national honour,” Mr Mahama said during his turn on the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation’s Encounters with presidential candidates on Wednesday, November 16.
According to the president, “she has saved this country nearly a billion dollars from judgement debts by fighting and contesting judgment debts”.
Mr Mahama revealed that there had been a lot of fraudulent claims, shoddy work, and false contracts but the diligent duty of the AG had ensured that Ghana was not at the losing end.
President Mahama said he set up a commission to investigate dubious claims against the government and if anyone reads the report of the commission “it is a sorry state of affairs but happily we have cleaned that”.
He added that if anyone comes to make any claims against government, “we are not going to sit down for you to have a default judgement”.
He stressed: “Now we go to court and fight you and in a lot of cases you find out that it is some people who have connived to rip government off.”
Source: Ghana/AccraFM.com
