The supreme court Yesterday, 4th July, ruled on an application brought by the embattled businessman Alfred Agbesi Woyome, which was to stay his oral examination by the Attorney General.
The court, presided by a sole judge threw out the application. Delivering his ruling, Justice Benin described the application as unmeritorious and without basis to be upheld.
On 29th June, 2017, the supreme court suspended the oral examination of Mr Woyome due to an application filed on 28th June, 2017. His lawyer who represented him in court had argued that, allowing his oral examination was going to cause an irrepairable damage to his client because, his client has taken the matter to the international chamber of commerce for arbitration.
The Attorney General who was represented by Lawyer Godfred Yeboah Dame( Deputy) opposed the said application and prayed the court to dismiss it, he described the application as incompetent only intended to delay the steps taken to retrieve the GHC 51.2M fraudulently paid to him by the previous government.
The court on June 8 granted a request by the A-G’s department to question the businessman to understand whether he owns properties, has the means of offsetting a 51.2 million cedis debt owed the state as well as how he spent the money wrongfully paid him by the state.
Eventually, the oral examination was set for July 24, 2017.Godfred Dame said, “the day of reckoning will certainly come.”
Source: myjoy online
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