Embattled businessman, Alfred Agbesi Woyome, has taken a swipe at the Deputy Attorney General, Godfred Dame, who is part of the attorneys representing the state in the GHS51 million judgement debt case.
Woyome who has not been enthused with how Mr Dame has conducted himself in the prosecution of the case advised him to “stop deceiving people”.
In an interview on Citi TV‘s Face to Face with Umaru Sanda Amadu, Woyome further accused Mr. Dame of hounding him with the police.
“If I [Woyome] had done something [wrong], the Supreme Court could have ordered [my arrest]. The police invited me so my brother and my wife bailed me. I presented everything to the police. Is the Police over the Supreme Court? These are for babies. He [Dame] must stop this [act] and stop deceiving people.”
Click below to watch the full interview on Face to Face:
Background
The Supreme Court, on July 29, 2014, ordered Mr Woyome to refund GHS51.2 million to the state, on the grounds that he benefited from unconstitutional and invalid contracts between the state and Waterville Holdings Limited in 2006 for the construction of stadia for 2008 AFCON.
The case leading to the Supreme Court decision was initiated by Martin Amidu, the current Special Prosecutor.
Eventually, in March 2016, Mr. Woyome asked the court to give him three years to pay back the money, but the court declined to grant his wish.
He is, however, said to have refunded GHS4 million in November 2016 and an additional GHS600,000 and promised to pay the outstanding balance by quarterly instalments of GHS5 million, commencing April 1, 2017.
This plan was rejected by the state.
But he also initiated legal challenges at the Supreme Court challenging orders for him to pay the money which were all dismissed.
Mr Woyome further sued at International Court of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) based in Paris, France, and the African Court of Justice, based in Arusha, Tanzania.
But in August 2017, the ICC threw out his case on the basis that he had failed to properly invoke its jurisdiction whilst his case at the African Court of Justice was also dismissed in June 2019.