Businessman Alfred Agbesi Woyome has filed another application at the Supreme Court clearly scuttling attempts by the state to retrieve the GHC 51.2 million judgement debt wrongly paid to him by the state.
In the latest application, the National Democratic Congress (NDC) financier wants the court to stay execution of all processing leading to the retrieval of the controversial cash.
After an in camera hearing today, it also emerged that Mr. Woyome’s application will require the empaneling of five judges to hear the application as filed.
The application is expected to be heard on November 21, 2017.
Excuses
Over the past few weeks, further oral examination of the businessman by the Attorney General appears to have hit a snag because lawyers of Mr. Woyome had prayed the court for more time.
On October 30, Woyome’s lawyers had urged the court to give the businessman some time to recover from his ill health.
The request had followed a medical record submitted to the court by Osafo Boaben, lawyer for Mr. Woyome indicating that the businessman is still unwell.
Mr. Woyome was due to appear before the court for further oral examination by the state.
It may be recalled that on October 16, this year, Osafo Boaben again said his client who is in the dock for questioning by the AG is indisposed.
He had submitted an excuse duty from doctors at the Accra Regional Hospital asking that the businessman be granted a two-week health leave.
Ruling
Mr. Woyome’s request follows the dismissal of a motion filed by his lawyers challenging the legality of the valuation of his assets by the state.
According to the court the motion as filed was without merit.
In the view of the court, the second order issued on January 6, 2016 to attach the properties of Mr. Woyome was irrelevant because the first one issued on 9 January 2015 had not been used and as such was effective.
The ruling of the court had given the state the go ahead to continue to orally examine the businessman over the cash.
Lawyers of the beleaguered businessman had filed the motion in an attempt to stop the state from continuing with the ongoing valuation processes.
They had argued that the state erred in initiating the valuation processes of the properties belonging to the businessman and National Democratic Congress (NDC) financier.
Mr. Woyome is currently in a fierce legal battle with the state over attempts to recoup into the national kitty the controversial cash.
The state intends to ascertain whether or not he has the means to repay the amount.
Godfred Yeboah-Dame, a Deputy Attorney-General was present in court while Mr. Woyome was absent.
Valuation
Recently, the government began a valuation of Woyome’s properties in a quest to retrieve the money wrongfully paid to him.
Some security personnel and officials from the Ghana Valuation Board, were stormed the Trasacco residence of Mr. Woyome to conduct the valuation to build concrete evidence on his ability to pay the debt for his trial.
Embargo
The judge had placed an embargo on the shares owned by the businessman in 11 companies, following his indebtedness to the state. The businesses affected include those in Anator Holding Company Limited, AAW Management Consulting Services Limited, Green Township Security Services Company Limited, Anator Construction Company Limited, Woyome Brothers International Limited and Stewise Anator Company Limited.
The rest are Stewise Shopping Company Limited, Green Townships and Industrial Parks Development Company Limited, Anator Power Company Limited, Green Townships (GH) Company Limited and Special Economic Zone International Trading Company Limited.
Source: The Publisher
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The invincible forces should pay this Woyome the a visit and all.these nons3nse will stop
I've said it time and time again that thesolution to this Woyome nons3nse is just to shoot the motherf*ck er and be done with it. The truth of the matter is that the th13f simply does not have the money and thus cannot pay He is doing all these legal acrobatics to buy time. Everything the sod owns must be sold and that includes his boxers.
this woyome can even now run for president and win bcos he has now become a household name. woyome this woyome that. the money will never be retrieved. it will be like this until he dies. politicians can never be trusted.
I think attorney general is a useeelesss woman. nana addo is also fooooooooooooolish for relying on a usseeeless woman. It is as if we still have the incompetent Mahama running the country disguised as an short, old bald man
This Woyome noonsense is getting tiring. Nana Addo and NPP must tell us if they are going to get this money back or not. We who voted for them are not interested in this song and dance. We have lost patience and we are not ready to entertain such mockery anymore. If Nana addo cannot meet our aspirations, we must advise ourselves accordingly and find someone better suited to meet our needs.
He is only tying himself up with the long rope before he knows it he will be in a strait jacket.
Talk is indeed cheap, 11 months and still counting yet not even bicycle of Woyome has been retrieved.
Some Ayigbe boys in the Oyibi areas who were employed by land owners as caretakers have planted juju on the land to scare away the Land owners. if any of your has bought land at Oyibi or purchased Taxi for Ayigbe boys for work and pay, pls alert them to look sharp, else you will 4ever loose the property. Iknow what am talking about.
The Valley View University (VVU) in Oyibi is training hard core drikers and weed smokers. The whole of Oyibi areas is now full of smokers and drinkers as well as ***barred word*** and crimenals who are all students of the VVU.
This ndc t.h.i.e.f will son run out of options and will probably hang himself.... even that we will retrieve the money from his corpse.