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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Just pay the moni quick quick or disgrace shall follow you
WOYOME CAN STILL HAVE HIS WAY OUT
oh oh oh oh NDC,WHY CAN"T YOU FIND ANOTHER MONEY SOMEWHERE FOR WOYOME TO SETTLE IT ONES AND FOR ALL?HE HELP YOU TO WIN 2008 ELECTIONS FINANCIALLY.AT LEAST PRESIDENT KUFFOUR LEFT YOU OIL AGYAPADE3 WHICH GIVE YOU OVER 600 MILLION DOLLARS ANNUALLY.YOU CAN STEAL SOME OIL MONEY FOR HIM. AAAAAABAH.
AS FOR THE MONEY IS FOR THE TAX PAYER AND IT MUST BE PAID. ALSO AM HAPPY BECOURSE WE ALL WILL KNOW WHO AND WHO BENEFITED FROM THIS BIG TAX MONEY AND ALSO IF YOU ARE THE ONE FINANCING THE NDC. NAME THEM ALL EVEN IF OB AMOAH AND CO ARE INCLUDED NAME THEM. THE MONEY WAS PAID AT THE MINISTRIES ANY ONE WHO GOT KICK BACKS INCLUDING THE ONES PUSHING FILES NAME THEM. I CANT WAIT FOR NEXT WEEK IT WILL BE PINSOOOOO
Woyome the NDC fanancier. Create, loot and share.
U people are jubilating for nothing. Go to transport ministry and see the contracts beeing given to WOYOME and u will weep
go and face the music, no one feels sorry for you. You miserable moddafoka! You call yourself financial engineer, let's see you engineer yourself out of prison!!! piece of shiittt like u!!!
U did not feel disgrace when u took poor people tax money and u misused it or feel disgrace when u know in your heart that u were not awarded a contract to begin with. The SC are speaking the voice of ordinary people bcos its also the voice of God. Please name the people who were behind this deal and God will take this disgrace from u.. Go n sin no more
As usual, the aim be will steal at the least opportunity. If you dash him something, he will say he doesn't like. Put it somewhere, he would go and steal it
This small thing & u are crying? Werent u laughing when u chopped the money with betty & ebo? That was not disgrace to u? Martin will butccher u on that day & ghanaians will fokkkk u in the anuss when nana addo jails u in january. U ediiot! If u think this is persecution, wait, the real show is yet to start! NDC Fuuuuuuuuul