The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has accused Attorney General Godfred Dame of attempting to manipulate media narratives to hinder the party from presenting its evidence against him in the ongoing ambulance case involving Minority Leader Dr Cassiel Ato Forson.
Richard Jakpa, the third defendant in the case, had claimed in court that the AG had repeatedly sought his help to implicate the Minority Leader, a claim the AG’s office has strongly refuted.
The NDC has pledged to disclose the evidence supporting these allegations this week.
However, the NDC’s National Communications Officer, Sammy Gyamfi, suggested in a post on Monday that the AG was attempting to influence media coverage in his favour to confuse the party’s yet-to-be-released evidence against him.
According to him, this was exacerbating the AG’s situation.
“Folks, just as I predicted earlier, the dishonourable AG and his NPP media surrogates have started planting stories in the media, ostensibly to preempt and obfuscate the damning evidence the NDC intends to put out this week about the AG’s unprofessional and criminal conduct in the Ato Forson trial. In their indecent haste to deceive the public, they have planted online stories that worsen the case of the dishonourable AG,” he stated.
Mr Gyamfi pointed out that the AG and his alleged New Patriotic Party (NPP) media allies had conceded that the NDC indeed possessed a covert recording of the AG and the 3rd Accused, Mr. Richard Jakpa, contradicting their previous assertion that the NDC lacked evidence.
“Secondly, the dishonourable AG and his NPP media surrogate claim that per their investigations, the secret recording in the custody of the NDC is a recording of a meeting at the residence of a Supreme Court Judge. This is scandalous!!!! I thought Godfred Dame stated publicly in his press release of Thursday, 23rd May, 2024 that he has never met the 3rd Accused to discuss the said trial. This contradiction is very interesting to note. Very very interesting.”
“If I may ask, who is this Supreme Court Judge that the dishonourable AG and his media surrogates are referring to? Doesn’t he/she have a name? Why are they withholding his/her name?
In any case, why will a Supreme Court judge be so wicked to entrap a whole Attorney General and Minister for Injustice, as Dame will have us believe? For what purpose? Can the dishonourable AG tell us? Can he particularize the alleged entrapment?”
The NDC National Communications Officer also noted that it was revealing that the AG and his alleged media allies now acknowledge that indeed, the 3rd Accused was persuaded by the AG to respond to cross-examination questions in a specific way, presumably to implicate the first Accused.
“And that the AG actually informed the 3rd Accused of the questions he was going to ask him during cross examination and directed him to answer “No” to some and “yes” to some, just so he can establish his case. This is contained in their own planted story. It’s not coming from me. But at least this helps us to know who the Fixed Match Merchants in Ghana’s legal system are.”
“The self-incriminating publication also reveals that the dishonourable AG communicated with the 3rd Accused directly, knowing very well that he is a represented party in the trial, thereby breaching Rule 13 of the Legal Profession (Professional Conduct and Etiquette) Rules that proscribes a lawyer from communicating with a represented party without the consent of the lawyer of the represented party,” he further underscored.
Mr Gyamfi called on Ghanaians to dismiss the AG’s planted stories, which he described as riddled with half-truths and rumor-mongering, with the utmost disdain.
“And stay tuned for the NDC’s presser which will put out incontrovertible hard evidence on these matters. Until then, somebody should simply advise the dishonourable AG that he cannot spin or dig himself out of this hole. Enfa!,” he added.
Folks, just as I predicted earlier, the dishonorable AG and his NPP media surrogates have started planting stories in the media, ostensibly to preempt and obfuscate the damning evidence the NDC intends to put out this week about the AG’s unprofessional and criminal conduct in the…
— Sammy Gyamfi (@SammyGyamfi_) May 27, 2024
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