Panic is said to have gripped leading members of the governing National Democratic Congress following the Supreme Court’s ruling that paves the way for former A-G Martin Amidu to orally examine Alfred Agbesi Woyome over the whopping GHC51 fraudulently paid him by the NDC government as judgment debt.
At the court’s previous sitting, government mounted a spirited resistance to the application by Martin Amidu to examine Alfred Woyome.
Mr Amidu filed his application following the decision by the Attorney-General to discontinue the legal processes that would lead to an oral examination the embattled NDC financier.
In a statement issued to the media, he argued that the decision by the Mahama government to discontinue the case was a cover up, to protect some NDC officials who benefited from the GHc51 million paid to Mr Woyome.
The A-G argued in court that Mr Amidu’s attempt to retrieve the GHc 51 million judgement debt was unconstitutional.
Marietta Brew Appiah-Oppong, represented by her deputy, Dominic Ayeni, said Mr Amidu was violating the constitution by coming to court to retrieve the money, arguing that it was only the AG’s office that was mandated by law to do so.
The Supreme Court in its ruling yesterday, read by Justice Enin Yeboah, said even though the amount in contention was colossal, no serious effort had been made to retrieve it since the order was delivered two years ago.
Meanwhile, Mr Woyome has accused the Supreme Court of persecuting him. “I am speaking as a citizen, and I feel that the Supreme Court is persecuting me,” he lamented yesterday.
Speaking in a Facebook live interview with Graphic Online after the ruling, he said “I disagree with the Supreme Court’s judgment today.”
“I proposed to pay 4 million cedis and pay the rest in the following months…but the Supreme Court denied and threw it out,” he said.
Mr Woyome complained that, after the rejection of his mode of payment, the Supreme Court further ordered the Attorney General to value his properties, saying such a move was to “disgrace me.”