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News A-G TURNS HEAT ON NPP MINISTER OVER WOYOME
News A-G TURNS HEAT ON NPP MINISTER OVER WOYOME
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Quoting portions of the Constitution, the AG argued that any contract with an international company must receive approval from Parliament. Whilst insisting that Woyome, Vamed and Waterville had no legitimate contract with the government, he cited a May 4, 2005 letter signed by the deputy Finance Minister under the Kufuor regime, Kweku Agyemang Manu and which formed the basis for the payment to Woyome as constituting fraud. If that was a contract, it should have been approved by Parliament, the AG stipulated. He is therefore prepared to retrieve every single amount paid to Woyome in court. In a reaction, Mr. Agyemang Manu welcomed the action taken by the Attorney General. He said if the Attorney General had taken this action from the beginning, the state would not have lost the ΒΆ51 million paid to Woyome. He argued that a one-page three-paragraph document he signed to Waterville does not constitute a legitimate contract, least of all to receive approval by Parliament. He said further that the letter in particular clearly had a disclaimer which stated that the government will not be held liable for any eventuality. He is convinced due process had been followed in issuing that letter but will not comment further on its legality. He would rather meet the AG in court to argue the case out. But the Deputy Attorney General under the Kufuor administration, Kwame Osei Prempeh said the AG is trying to divert attention by roping in the NPP functionary in the controversial saga. He insisted that there was no contract with Woyome and that any attempt by the AG to refer to a letter signed by an NPP official as a contract is misleading. Meanwhile Mr. Robertson Kpatsa, counsel for Woyome, told Joy News he had not been served with the amended motion by the Attorney General and so could not comment on it. He would not also go into the issue of whether Woyome had a contract with the government or not because that is before the court. Source:Myjoyonline
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Ghana's Attorney General, Martin Amidu, has turned the heat on a functionary of the New Patriotic Party in his quest to retrieve over ΒΆ50 million paid in judgement debt to National Democratic Congress financier, Alfred Woyome.