Deputy Attorney General, Dr. Dominic Ayine is warning of a bad precedent being set by the Supreme Court when it granted Martin Amidu’s request to orally examine businessman Alfred Agbesi Woyome. He is also predicting a cul-de-sac in the Martin Amidu’s showdown with Woyome.
Mr. Amidu who is a former Attorney General applied to orally examine Mr. Woyome with a conviction that government was not willing to retrieve a GHc51.2 million judgment debt the latter wrongfully obtained.
This was granted by the Supreme Court on Wednesday, but the Deputy Attorney General believes the court erred. “This is a very bad precedent that we are setting. It is not going to help in the development of our constitutional law,” Dr. Dominic Ayine told host of 3FM’s Sunrise, Winston Amoah on Thursday.
He admitted that even though Mr. Amidu obtained a declaratory judgement for the state, Article 2 under the constitution does not grant him the procedural right of enforcement.
“Where the consequential orders are not directed at the person [who obtained the declaratory judgment], that person cannot take action,” he explained, “it is only the Attorney General who can take action”. “I think the Supreme Court was wrong,” he said of the ruling by Justice Anin Yeboah.
He cited several moves by the Attorney General to retrieve the money from Mr. Woyome. This included attachment of his property at Trasacco Valley, frozen account, he said, adding that evidence of “active steps” taken have been presented to the court.
He therefore described as “surprising” claim by the judge that “we have not taken any steps to retrieve the money”. The Deputy Minister also wondered whether after the oral examination, the court would ask Martin Amidu to enter judgment to retrieve the money including attaching his property.
Dr. Ayine accused Martin Amidu of “collaborating” with pressure group Occupy Ghana just to “keep the matter alive”.
Source: 3news
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This ***barred word*** doesn't know what he is talking about. We as citizens whose money has been stolen by miscreants and nation wreckers in NDC govt will solidly rally behind Martin Amidu to retrieve our money for us.
another ediot from a cr1minal party ndc
Time will tell.
@Apuu...I can see you lack intellect yourself.What is wrong about what Mr. Amidu is doing for GHANA.When they bribe you to come and say ***barred word*** please go ahead and say it without insulting anybody on this platform.And let me educate you,the constitution of Ghana allow every citizen to defend the state.What work do you do?,the cheek of it.
@ Mr Apuu, shame on you. Our constitution gives every citizen the right to defend and protect the state at all times. This is much so even when the aparatus of the state are been used to the detriment of the state itself. In courts own wisdom, the AG's actions have rather benefitted and encouraged the non payment of this debt by Mr Woyome. They therefore found it imperative to give the right of the AG to an individual who had shown more commitment to the state the the state's own machinery. Now instead of the AG supporting Amidu, they and their supporters like Mr Appu are rather bad mouthing him.... A big SHAME!!!
Some of you on this platform are just here to insult people without addressing the issue raised. No wonder some of you are without jobs because you are lacking intellectually. What is so wrong with the deputy minister pointing out the danger that is looming with the ruling by the supreme court? Put politics aside, what the judgement for amidu means is that any ghanaian can walk to a court in the future and apply to examine an accused. And you ***barred word*** thinks the minister has no point? Most of you are like parrots, repeating what you hear without critically thinking and unfortunately that is what peace fm is
The create, lo.ot and share brigade is being exposed and all these NDC beneficiaries are crying wolf.... Collect the money you dont want to do it and a volunteer is trying and you are talking of bad precedence?
Mr. Ayine, if the money was your father's property, would you have handled this case the way you have handled it? Why are you people playing these tricks on us? If the suspect were to be a known npp, would you have been so lenient? How on earth can the one who has taken money from the state illegally dictate to you people with impunity? How much has he paid for the past two years. Hypocrites!
Ayine, thou foooooooool. If you did your work well, this would not happen. You should have dealt with the montie 3 in the criminnal case but you did not. Thus the supreme court has no faith in you and your stuuuupidddd brew opppon. This is a good precedence. We shall sack NDC and put a better govt in place.
Another ***barred word***