Alfred Woyome<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cI can assure you that, nothing will hinder the state in its efforts to recover the money. These are all ploys that will be swept away. No impediment, whatsoever that is placed in the way of the state by Mr. Woyome will prevent the state from recovering the money. Surely the day of reckoning will come,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Background to saga<\/strong><\/p>\nMr. Woyome was paid the GHc 51 million after claiming he helped Ghana raise funds to construct stadia for the hosting of the 2008 African Cup of Nations.<\/p>\n
However, an Auditor General\u2019s report released in 2010, held that the amount was paid illegally to him.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
Following delays in retrieving the money, 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
There had been previous attempts to orally examine Mr. Woyome with Mr. Amidu himself, 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\u2019s office under the Mahama Administration, led by the former Minister for Justice, Marietta Brew Appiah-Oppong, discontinued a similar application.<\/p>\n
In February 2017 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.<\/p>\n
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By: Fred Djabanor\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n
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A Deputy Attorney General, Godfred Dame, has vowed that the government will retrieve the GH\u00a251 million owed the state by businessman Alfred Agbesi Woyome. He said Mr. Woyome\u2019s \u201cday of reckoning will come\u201d as the state is will employ every legitimate means to retrieve the money. [contextly_sidebar id=”zzP0QZ3TaDgWvylZgSd2aEGiypqgeNRz”]The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed an application […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,11],"tags":[178,1284,3],"yoast_head":"\n
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