Businessman Alfred Woyome has been responding to a Supreme Court ruling granting former Attorney General Martin Amidu an opportunity to cross examine him.
At a hurriedly arranged live FACEBOOK interview with Graphic Online after the ruling, the embattled businessman said “I disagree totally with the ruling today” and accused the Supreme Court of scheming to "disgrace" him.
“I am speaking as a citizen, and I feel that the Supreme Court is persecuting me,” he lamented
The Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday morning that the two men should face off in court in the case involving alleged fraudulent acts on the part of Mr. Woyome which led the state to make a huge payment of GHS 51m to him.
Last week, the Attorney General filed court documents indicating a suspension of government’s attempts to retrieve the monies from Mr. Woyome. That appears to have prompted Mr. Amidu to return to the Supreme Court, which had ordered the retrieval of the money, urging the court to allow him to cross-examine Mr. Woyome in court.
Mr Amidu’s decision to file a writ to cross-examine the businessman and NDC financier followed a move by the Attorney General to discontinue oral examination of Mr Woyome.
Alfred Woyome was paid ¢51 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’s 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.
Mr. Woyome in April 2016, prevented officials of the Attorney General’s Department and the Lands Commission from having access to his Kpehe residence for valuation. 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.
Making his case on why he thinks the Supreme Court is pursuing him, he claimed that after an earlier judgment served on him to pay the GHc 51 million, the Supreme Court rejected his mode of payment. According to him, he had wanted to pay GHc4 million, and spread the rest over a period of time; but his appeal was rejected by the Supreme Court.
“I proposed to pay 4 million cedis and pay the rest in the following months…but the Supreme Court denied and threw it out,” he said. Mr. Woyome complained that, after the rejection of his mode of payment, the Supreme Court further ordered the A-G to valuate his properties saying such a move was to “disgrace me.”
He also cited a number of cases which to him shows that the court was against him.
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Interest payments alone will be more than $4million a month given the current commercial interest rate of 28% in Ghana and you're proposing to pay just $4million? You think all Ghanaians are ***barred word***? Go meet Amidu and country on November 24. I can't wait to see you face-to-face with Amidu. God bless Martin Amidu.
Press briefing.Woyome List is out for chase. I WOYOME cannot go down alone and the following people part of my scandal; BETTY MOULD IDRISU(EX-A.G),EBO BARTON ODURO( EX. DEPUTY A.G & DEPUTY SPEAKER OF PARL.), IBRAHIM MAHAMA( ENGINEERS & PLANNERS ),MR & MRS TONY LITHUR( PRES. LAWYER),M. BREW OPPONG APPIAH( CURRENT A.G), ASIEDU NKETIAH( HEAD OF NDC CORRUPT TEAM),CARDINAL MILL( THE LATE ATTA MILLS BROTHER),KWABENA DUFFOUR( FMR FIN. MINISTER),AMISSAH ARTHUR( EX. BANK OF GHANA GOVERNOR & CURRENT VICE PRES. OF GHANA) and the Almighty MAN on top JOHN DRAMANI MAHAMA( EX. VICE AND THE CURRENT PRESIDENT OF GHANA). And for your information they used part of the money for the NDC HEADQUARTERS. Let the BLood Flow because the innocent Lives that were lost those days are CRAYING FOR JUSTICE. Where are the junior Army Boys. WAKE-UP
Woyome if i were your church PASTOR i will hand you over for you to be crucified because your WICKED. How on earth can only you take all this money. And you have the balls to tell us you're a BUSINESSMAN. A f'ake Businessman INDEED. You continue to hold your CHEST OUT very soon OUR GOD will speak for us. We can assure you that if you don't pay all the monies before the end of this year hmmmmm! You will file for EXILE come 2017.
You call this disgrace? WHEN YOU WERE CHOPPING OUR MONEY DID YOU REMEMBER THE SUPREME COURT, OR EVEN BOTHER TO GIVE ME SOME? NKWASIIIIASEMM KWA
WHY DO YOU DISCRIBE THIS AS 'DISGRACE ME'. MARTIN IS COMING LIKE 'KAKAI'. WAIT, YOU WILL SEE YOUR SMOOTHLESS LEVEL. CHANGE IS COMING!
That will amount to nothing.
Why am I not being hounded by any court? It is because I have never defrauded the nation or anything like that. You have no sympathy. The only advice I can give you is to tell how you spent the money on Nov 24. If you don't, well , you alone will pay the money.
look at edi0t. u are given the chance to name ur accomplice so that they will also be shamed and u are here lamenting. what do u stand protecting those cr1m1nals behind the deal? u will continue to be disgraced if u continue protecting them. just go and tell the truth and save urself all this disgrace. or better still go ask ur accomplice to help u pay the total sum by the date if you dont want to answer simple questions. well i know they will not be able to help u now bcos they are busy sharing the other monies they have stolen on their compaign. I am afraid u will have to face Mr Amidu. Just becareful bcos ur accomplices can eliminate u. so becareful when they call u for meeting.
Masa, go and answer the questions. The Attorney General, knowing her hands are in the dirty deal has pampered you to this point. You better ***barred word*** and meet Amidu the initiator and vigilante.
You deserve to be shot so than God that the Supreme Court is only persecuting you. Better go and tell the truth and relieve yourself of some of the shame. If you keep quiet you will carry the shame and burden alone. When you die and ever come back you will not steal peoples' money and believe that you can be covered.