Pressure on Barton Odro to resign over Woyome comments
Some constituents of the First Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Mr Ebo Barton Odro, have called for his resignation following his insistence that the state had no case against Mr Alfred Agbesi Woyome in the matter of a GhȻ51.2million judgment debt paid him in 2010.
Mr Odro In an interview with Radio Central in Cape Coast last week repeated his insistence that the state had no case against Mr Woyome.
But a day after that radio interview, the Supreme Court ruled that Mr Woyome had no contract with the state and as such should refund the GhȻ51.2million.
Mr Woyome in 2010 had sued the state for a breach of contract in the construction of stadia for Ghana’s hosting of the 2008 African Cup of Nations.
Mr Odro, who was then Deputy Minister of Justice and Attorney General, insisted that the state had no case against Mr Woyome, adding that it explained why his (Woyome) claim was not contested.
He was heavily criticised by the public for his comments because at the time of the comment, his then boss, Mrs Betty Mould Iddrisu, had gone to court to set aside the judgement award which entitled Mr Woyome to the money.
On Radio Central last week, Mr Odro repeated his stance that as far as that particular case was concerned, government’s case was not good.
Listen to Mr Barton Odro in the interview with Radio Central
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But that seemed to have incurred the wrath of some of his constituents in Cape Coast North, particularly from the opposition New Patriotic Party side.
According to them, Mr Odro is no longer fit to hold his position as First Deputy Speaker and Member of Parliament and should therefore resign.
They claim the comment from their MP was ‘embarrassing’, stressing that he had brought shame on the constituency with his action and was no longer fit to represent them.
