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Peacefmonline.com is reliably informed that another NPP Member of Parliament and a former Cabinet minister in the erstwhile Kufuor administration, is likely to be invited by the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service for questioning over the infamous Alfred Woyome judgment debt scandal. The NPP MP for Essikado-Ketan and former Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, Hon. Joe Ghartey, according to sources, is the next on the wanted list of past government officials expected to be invited to assist investigations into the controversial Woyome affair. Some past and current government officials have been named in an official investigative report undertaken by the Economic and Organised Crimes Office (EOCO) for their role in the Woyome judgment debt scandal. Former Sports and Education Minister, Yaw Osafo Maafo is currently being questioned regarding his role in the saga at the Police Headquarters. Prior to Osafo Maafo's invitation by the police, a former Deputy Youth and Sports Minister and incumbent MP for Aburi-Nsawam, Hon. O. B Amoah was arrested over the weekend and charged with wilfully causing loss to the state. He was subsequently released on Monday on a GH�20 million police inquiry bail with two sureties. Hon Joe Ghartey's role in the entire Woyome scandal was a letter he wrote legally abrogating a contract between the Government of Ghana and Waterville Holdings (BVI) Ltd because certain conditions to be fulfilled by the latter could not be met. The former A-G wrote to Waterville on August 1, 2006, saying since the company was to engineer the funding for the CAN 2008 Project but failed to make that requirement, the contracts were cancelled. But a clearly unfazed Joe Ghartey, told Citifm in an interview that his hands are clean and as far as he is concerned "Waterville duped" the state and so is not bothered by any would-be police summons. �I am not afraid in the least and I am not nervous in the least; I am going about my business normally because I have nothing to hide...I have never met him (Woyome) before, I have never had any transaction with him, I never even came across him when I was Attorney General and even after I left office and so I don�t know how I can be connected to his judgment debt payment saga.�