Embattled businessman, Alfred Woyome, is making yet another attempt to stop his oral examination at the Supreme Court.
The businessman today, Monday, October 16, 2017 failed to appear before a single Justice of the Supreme Court for the State to continue with its oral examination of him over the Gh¢51 million judgment debt saga.
Starr News can confirm that Woyome’s lawyer, Safo Buabene told Justice Albert Benin’s court that his client is not well thus his inability to appear.
The two new motions filed by Mr. Woyome will be moved in court on Friday, October 20, 2017.
Background to Judgment Debt saga
Mr. Woyome was paid GHc 51 million after claiming he helped Ghana raise funds to construct stadia for the hosting of the 2008 Africa 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, single-handedly 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 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’s office under the Mahama Administration, led by the former Minister for Justice, Marietta Brew Appiah-Oppong, discontinued a similar application.
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.
Source: Ghana/Starrfmonline.com/103.5FM
