AFAG backs call on A-G to resign
The Alliance for Accountable Governance (AFAG) has backed the call by businessman Alfred Agbesi Woyome on the Attorney-General (A-G), Mrs Marietta Brew-Appiah Opong, to resign.
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The pressure group has also demanded a total overhaul of the Attorney-General’s Department, since “they are unfit to handle any government case, especially the appeal against Mr Woyome”.
Speaking at a press briefing in Accra yesterday, the General Secretary of AFAG, Mr Arnold Boateng, said the call for Mrs Opong’s resignation further proved that some big names in the National Democratic Congress (NDC) benefited from the GH¢51 million judgement debt scandal.
“We believe that not only Mrs Opong benefited from the money paid to Woyome but also the likes of Mrs Betty Mould-Iddrisu, Mr Ebo Barton-Odro and Dr Kwabena Duffour are some of the people involved in the scandal,” it alleged.
Background
Mr Woyome was last Thursday acquitted and discharged by the High Court on two counts of defrauding by false pretence and causing financial loss to the state.
The Presiding Judge, Mr Justice John Ajet-Nasam, said the State had also failed to put up a defence when Woyome went to the Commercial Court and, therefore, found it absurd for the state to turn around and accuse Woyome of causing financial loss.
The decision, however, did not meet the expectation of the A-G, who has submitted a notice of appeal against the acquittal, describing the ruling as biased and unlawful.
Mr Woyome, in a statement accused Mrs Opong and her former clinet, Austro Invest, of benefitting from the GH¢51 million judgement debt paid to him in 2010.
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He, therefore, called on the A-G to resign, since “she is biased and unfit to be the chief legal advisor to the President”.
AFAG argues
Mr Boateng said the A-G’s handling of Mr Woyome’s case was enough evidence that “something is being hidden intentionally”.
“There is something Ghanaians do not know about the payment of the GHc51 million judgement debt to Mr Woyome. We should take Woyome’s claim very seriously,” he said.
According to Mr Boateng, if the allegation made against Mrs Opong “is anything to go by, then there are big people behind the whole scandal”.
He said Ghanaians no longer trusted the A-G to lead the appeal, hence the need for Mrs Opong and her team to resign.