Oral Examination Of Woyome Comes Off Today

Deputy Minister of Justice and Attorney General, Godfred Dame will today orally examine Ghanaian Businessman, Alfred Agbesi Woyome at the Supreme Court. 

He will be examined on whether he (Woyome) has what it takes to pay back the GHc 51.2 million paid to him by the state as judgement debt.

The payment is supposed to be two percent commission for the financial engineering services he is said to have provided for the construction and rehabilitation of some stadia towards CAN 2008. 

Meanwhile, official documents indicate that Mr. Woyome has already made part payment of four point five million Ghana cedis to the state.

Mr. Woyome was paid GHc 51.2 million after claiming he helped Ghana raise funds to construct stadia for the hosting of the 2008 African Cup of Nations.

However, an Auditor General’s report released in 2010, held that the amount was paid illegally to him.

Subsequently, the Supreme Court in 2014 ordered Mr. Woyome to pay back the money, after a former Attorney General, Martin Amidu, challenged the legality of the payments.

Following delays in retrieving the money, Supreme Court judges unanimously granted the Attorney-General clearance to execute the court’s judgment, ordering Mr. Woyome to refund the cash to the state.

Mr. Amidu, in 2016, filed an application at the Supreme Court seeking to examine Alfred Woyome, on how he was going to pay back the money, after the Attorney General’s office under the Mahama Administration, led by the former Minister for Justice, Marietta Brew Appiah-Oppong, discontinued a similar application.

In February 21017 however, Mr. Amdu withdrew his suit seeking an oral examination, explaining that the change of government and the assurance by the new Attorney General to retrieve all judgement debts wrongfully paid to individuals, had given him renewed confidence in the system.

GBC