Embattled businessman, Alfred Agbesi Woyome, has accused Ghana\u2019s Supreme Court of persecuting him in the controversial GHc51 million judgment debt case.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am speaking as a citizen, and I feel that the Supreme Court is persecuting me,\u201d he lamented.<\/p>\n
His comment comes on the back of the Supreme Court\u2019s approval for him to be orally examined <\/a><\/strong><\/span>by former Attorney General, Martin Amidu.<\/p>\n [contextly_sidebar id=”pgHbK8arYwG1jUxEcOGZMKfnZL8Bllf1″]Mr. Amidu filed an application at the apex court,\u00a0after the Attorney General (AG) discontinued the process to examine Mr. Woyome, despite serving an earlier notice to do same.<\/p>\n The Supreme Court however upheld Mr. Amidu\u2019s application, but Mr. Woyme while speaking in a Facebook live interview with Graphic Online after the ruling, said \u201cI disagree with the Supreme Court\u2019s judgment today.\u201d<\/p>\n Mr. Woyome further made his case on why he thinks the Supreme Court is pursuing him, saying that, after an earlier judgment served on him to pay the GHc 51 million, the Supreme Court rejected his mode of payment.<\/p>\n According to him, he had wanted to pay GHc8 million, and spread the rest over a period of time; but his appeal was rejected by the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n \u201cI proposed to pay \u00a08 million cedis and pay the rest in the following months\u2026but the Supreme Court denied and threw it out,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Mr. Woyome complained that, after the rejection of his mode of payment, the Supreme Court further ordered the Attorney General to valuate his properties saying such a move was to \u201cdisgrace me.\u201d<\/p>\n He also cited a number of cases which to him shows that the court was against him.<\/p>\n Background<\/strong><\/p>\n Alfred Woyome was paid \u00a251 million after he claimed that he helped Ghana to raise funds to construct stadia for purposes of hosting the CAN 2008 Nations Cup. However an Auditor General\u2019s report released in 2010, said the amount was paid illegally to the National Democratic Congress (NDC) financier. The Supreme Court in 2014 ordered Mr. Woyome to pay back the amount, after Mr. Martin Amidu challenged the legality of the judgment debt paid the businessman, Waterville, and Isofoton.<\/p>\n Following delays in retrieving the money, the Supreme Court judges unanimously granted the Attorney-General clearance to execute the court\u2019s judgment ordering Mr. Woyome to refund the cash to the state.<\/p>\n Woyome prevents officials from valuing residence<\/strong><\/p>\n Mr. Woyome in April 2016, prevented officials of the Attorney General\u2019s Department and the Lands Commission from having access to his Kpehe residence for valuation.<\/p>\n The move was part of a directive from the Supreme Court to retrieve monies illegally paid to him. But Woyome resisted the move, saying the planned valuation was illegal.<\/p>\n Mr. Woyome had earlier won the criminal prosecution that sought to imprison him for the offence.<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n By:Godwin A. Allotey\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana
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