A former Attorney General, Martin Amidu has lashed out at the Minister of Communications, Dr Edward Omane Boamah for accusing him of peddling falsehood in court in the case where he is seeking for leave to examine on oath Mr. Woyome as to his means and property to satisfy the GHC51.2million judgment debt.
According to Mr Amidu, Edward Omane Boamah made the allegations in ignorance, without referring to the appropriate legal documents.
He said, Dr Boamah in a recent interview said “Mr. Amidu lied when he claimed that the Attorney General’s firm was on the side of Mr. Woyome when in fact the firm was rather against Woyome.”
Martin Amidu in a statement copied to citfmonline.com challenged Dr Omane Boamah’s allegation saying his he “relied on the unanimous decision of the Supreme Court dated 29th July 2014 making two declarations against Woyome and Austro-Invest, the client of Lithur-Brew and Co in my arguments to the Court on 10th November 2016 and nobody should jump the gun by calling me “a big damn liar” and perjurer while the case is pending.”
He said the Minister’s utterances and conduct confirms the Government’s impunity and abuse of power in acting unconstitutionally to control the content of even private media houses such as Multi TV/Joy FM where the minister made the allegations against him.
“The drunken tantrums cowardly thrown by Omane Boamah shows the shallowness of his education, understanding, and lack of diligence and industry in researching matters he is to defend the Government on in public. Simple common sense would have informed the almighty Minister of Communications who sought to take over Multi TV/Joy FM to insult me that in arguing my case before the Supreme Court on 10th November 2016 I referred the Court to its own unanimous decision given in my favour on 29th July 2014,” he stated.
The anti-corruption campaigner recently filed an application at the Supreme Court, praying it to allow him to examine businessman, Alfred Agbesi Woyome, in the controversial GHC51 million judgment debt paid to him. Mr. Amidu’s action came after the Attorney General announced that it will no longer orally examine Mr. Woyome, despite serving an earlier notice it would do otherwise.
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OMANE BOAMAH! THE SUPREME COURT UNANIMOUSLY DECLARED LITHURBREW’S
AUSTRO-INVEST LIMITED AS JOINT LOOTERS WITH WOYOME NOT
AMIDU: BY MARTIN A. B. K. AMIDU
I have never been a “damn big liar” in the action I commenced in the Supreme Court on 22nd June 2012 in the case of Martin Alamisi Amidu v (1) Attorney General (2) Waterville Holding Company Limited (BVI) (3) Austro-Invest Management Services Limited, and (4) Alfred Agbesi Woyome or in any application I have made to the Court in connection with that case as Edward Omane Boamah, the Minister of Communications, is reported by 3 news.com on Ghana Web to
have charged me with on Multi TV/Joy FM’s news analysis programme, newsfile on Saturday 12th November 2016.
The substantive case concluded on 29th July 2014 and all I have sought to do is to ensure that the orders of the Court to Woyome to refund the whopping GHC51.2million is obeyed timeously as mandated by Article 2 of the 1992 Constitution. It does no credit to the Government which created, looted and shared the unconstitutional payment with Woyome to send its Minister of
Communications and other junior Ministers to attack my character and person.
My application dated 4th November 2016 for leave to examine on oath Mr. Woyome as to his means and property to satisfy the judgment debt was heard on 10th November 2016.
The case was adjourned for ruling to 15th November 2016 with an admonishing to the parties not to comment further on the case. The Government does not demonstrate any respect for the rule of law and the independence of the judiciary, particularly of the Supreme Court, when the Government unleashes its Communications Minister to charge me with being a “damned big liar” and demand that I purge myself of my lies on a live TV/ radio show, as reported.
Edward Omane Boamah’s major charge against me is that I told “the courts that the current Attorney General Mrs. Marietta Brew Appiah-Opong’s firm, Lithur-Brew and Co represented Austro-Invest, a company he claimed benefitted from the GHC51.2million wrongly paid to Woyome.” The cabinet Minister is reported to have insisted that: “Mr. Amidu lied when he claimed that the Attorney General’s firm was on the side of Mr. Woyome when in fact the firm was rather against Woyome.”
The riotous Minister is said to have demanded, pestering the host of the show to “Get Martin Amidu to speak to his lies”, -“insisting that the ‘truth is being sacrificed’with the host’s show of disinterest in allowing the Communications Minister to direct how the show should be run”. The conduct of the Government’s Communications Minister confirms the Government’s impunity and abuse of power in acting unconstitutionally to control the content of even private media houses such as Multi TV/Joy FM.
The drunken tantrums cowardly thrown by Omane Boamah shows the shallowness of his education, understanding, and lack of diligence and industry in researching matters he is to defend the Government on in public. Simple common sense would have informed the almighty Minister of Communications who sought to take over Multi TV/Joy FM to insult me that in arguing my case before the Supreme Court on 10th November 2016 I referred the Court to its own unanimous decision given in my favour on 29th July 2014.
The Supreme Court made three declarations and one order in my favour.
The first is:
“1. A declaration that the Honourable Attorney General, the 1st Defendant Respondent, in this case in paying or ordering the payment by the Republic of Ghana of claims by the 3rd Defendant and Austro-Invest, …is inconsistent with and in contravention of Article 181(5) of the 1992 Constitution…and are according declared null, void and without effect whatsoever.
The third declaration is:
“3. A declaration that the conduct of the 3rd Respondent, therein Plaintiff, jointly with Austro-Invest management limited in making claims upon and including the issuance of a writ of summons with the support of 2nd defendant therein and receiving payment premised upon the breaches…is in consistent with and in contravention of Article 181 (5) of the Constitution.” I am attaching herewith a PDF of a certified true copy of the entire decision of the Court dated 29th July 2014 for ease of reference by doubting Thomases like the Government’s lazy or unread Communication’s Minister. Truth can never be silenced!
The Austro-Invest referred to in declarations 1 and 3 as acting jointly with Woyome, and the Attorney General to have created, looted and shared the GHC51.2million from the public purse is the very Austro-Invest which Marietta Brew Appiah-Opong, the current Attorney-General (appointed in early 2013) admits her firm of Lithur-Brew and Co acted for against Woyome after the loot was paid to Austro-Invest and Woyome.
The declarations of the Supreme Court are clear that the loot was procured jointly by Woyome and Austro-Invest Management Services Limited whom the Communication Minister admits was Lithur-Brew and Co.’s client. The GHC51.2million loot ordered by the Court to be refunded was money, which according to declaration 3 was paid to Woyome and Austro-Invest jointly, and which the Government and the current Attorney General from Lithur-Brew and Co have refused or failed to retrieve for the public purse for such a long time.
This is why it is not fair to call me a bad name and hang me without referring to the declaration granted by the Court and the situation in which the Government and the current Attorney General from Lithur-Brew and Co now find themselves.
The indefensible aspect of the AustroInvest case is that at the time Lithur-Brew and Co went to the High Court after the payment of the loot jointly to Woyome and Austro-Invest to ask for a share of the loot from Woyome, they were purporting to act for a company which had ceased to exist to their knowledge, unless they were grossly negligent as lawyers. It is of no moment to me whether they acted directly for Woyome or indirectly or for Austro-Invests’ share of the joint loot from Woyome. This matter was exhaustively dealt with last year on my website, martinamidu.com, and in the media with the supporting evidence of the pleadings filed on Austro-Invest’s behalf by Lithur-Brew and Co.
I relied on the unanimous decision of the Supreme Court dated 29th July 2014 making two declarations against Woyome and Austro-Invest, the client of Lithur-Brew and Co in my arguments to the Court on 10th November 2016 and nobody should jump the gun by calling me “a big damn liar” and perjurer while the case is pending. I am constrained from making any further comment on the case apart from calling the public’s attention to the final decision of the Supreme Court, a public record, in respect of Austro-Invest Management Services Limited which is admitted to have been the client of Lithur-Brew and Co, the firm of the current Attorney General. No lies!
Martin A. B. K. Amidu
13th November 2016
Source: Citifmonline
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This Amidu man I am beginning to believe is going mad. He is so bitter that one day the bitterness will kill him.Loser. So this man knew all this and he went to the AG office and never prosecuted 1 NPP official? Ore he was a double agent
daddy dont worry your head for this small boy. Jah will speak for you
For me ; I cannot understand why Martin-Amidu bothers to to respond to this delinquent so called Doctor fraudester Omane Boama ; this guy behaves like a lunatic in a mental hospitals and thinks he is street brawl fighter besides does the full think Jon Mahama are going to stay in power for ever ; Omane Boama should understand that a government position is not a personal property ; this full is not a lawyer but have taken on this mantle of being a propagada speaker for the NDC and will shout on roof tops to defend anything against the NDC just like Goebels did in NAZI Germany during the 1930's but Omane Boama should understand that for everything there is an end !!!!!!!!!; this a qualified doctor who during his days as a doctor was a poor taxi driver using his own car to do his round at night ; today he is a millionaire through stilling ; today he has the balls to sit like shout like a lunatic in a mental home defending woyome because he has been paid with part of the stolen monies ; the QUESTION IS WHY ARE NDC MEMBERS DEFENDING THE ACTIONS OF THE AG AND WOYOME when at the sametime we do not have medicines and food to feed our brothers and sisters who lanquish at the Mental hospitals ; IT IS ALL BECAUSE OF GREEDY PEOPLE LIKE OMANE BOAMA !!!!!!: ALL OF THEM ARE THIFFS MASQUARADING AS POLITICIANS ; BESIDES WHICH VILLAGE DOES THIS EDIOTIC FULL COMES FROM AND IS THIS MABN A REAL DOCTOR ONE MAY ASK !!!!!!!!
Commot for der!
@Solomon you are a th!ef like Woyome noooorrr. If not so why would say Martin Amidu is seeking to project himself. What would Amidu get if government takes that money from Woyome, will he be given 0.0000001% out of it? You and your government are just th!eves if not so you will not call Amidu as a liar. Shameeeee just pray NPP doesn't come to power all of your likes will rot in nsawam prison.
The NDC should not tolerate the ***barred word*** of martin amidu anymore, whatever his beef is with the party and the president. He is insulting Dr boamah of throwing tantrums but that is exactly what he has been doing as a grown up ***barred word***-man after he was thrown out of the mills government. History should educate him that nobody has ever left the ndc to pith camp against it and has prospered in whatever endeavor. The hatred he has for the ndc will consume him into dust
Now that the hens are home to roost, Omane Boamah what do you have to say for yourself. After your childish tantrums which were thrown on newsfile last Saturday. Because the Government have nothing to say,they clutch on any flimsy excuse to show their gross incompetence.
On that show Omane behaved like a villllager instead of a minister. I could not tell the difference between himand a drunken ***barred word***! Even host samson ayenini had to scold him like a fuuuuulish little schoolboy. With fiioooools like omane in cabinet, there is little explanatiin to offer as to why mahama's govt is a stuppppid one.
what a punch, toaso
MARTIN LEAVE THESE CROOKS AND THE NDC . THEY ARE NOT WORTH YOUR STRENGTH AND EFFORT.