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." |
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