A Former Attorney General, Martin Amidu is praying the Supreme Court to throw out a suit by one Abdulai Yusif Fanash Muhammed who is seeking to quash an earlier decision by the apex court which ruled that business man Alfred Woyome should pay up the GHc51 million cedis he owes the state.
Abdulai Yusif Fanash Muhammed, a Hohoe resident sued Martin Amidu, the Attorney General and Mr Woyome claiming the Supreme Court did not have jurisdiction to rule over the matter.
Mr Muhammed wants a “Declaration that the financial engineering claims by Alfred Agbesi Woyome arising out of the tender bid by Vamed Engineering GmbH/Waterville Holdings during the procurement process from June 2005 until its wrongful abrogation in August 2005 is not an international business transaction within the meaning of Article 181 of the Constitution, 1992.”
President John Mahama, at a recent meeting with some journalists, said Abdulai Muhammed’s action literally prevented government from taking the money from Mr Woyome.
But Martin Amidu has described the latest suit as a smoke screen to prevent Mr. Woyome from paying the money, and asked the court to disregard it.
“The commencement of this incompetent action by the Plaintiff/Respondent on 22 December 2015 provided the 1st Defendant through His Excellency President John Dramani Mahama the shameless cover behind which to tell the public (for whose benefit the judgment debt in Amidu (No 3) (supra) was given and ordered on 29 July 2014 inures) on 12 January 2016 at a media encounter broadcast to the whole world that the 1st Defendant was unable to execute the ruling and orders in the said Amidu (No 3) because of this pending action: the 2nd Defendant on his part used it as a cover to purport to apply to this Court for a suspension of the ruling and orders in Amidu (No 3) (supra) pending the hearing and disposal of this incompetent action as a means of buying time to prevent the 3rd Defendant/Applicant from bringing any action against him for disobedience to the orders of this Court under Article 2 of the 1992 Constitution.”
“I believe that the Plaintiff/Respondent’s Writ and Statement of Case are frivolous, vexatious and an abuse of the process of this Court for lack of locus standi and/or any cause of action vested in the Plaintiff/Respondent against the 3rd Defendant/Applicant or any of the Defendants pursuant to Articles 2(1)(b) and 130(1)(a), and Rule 45 of the Supreme Court Rules, 1996 (CI 16) to warrant the invocation of the original jurisdiction of this Court,” he added.
Click here to download Martin Amidu’s legal objection to Muhammed’s writ & case
Click here to download Martin Amidu’s statement of case
–
By: Nana Boakye Yiadom/citifmonline.com/Ghana