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An Accra Fast Track High Court has adjourned the case involving the payment of GH�51.2 million to businessman Alfred Agbesi Woyome in 2010 to January 22nd, 2014. During court proceedings on Tuesday, the police investigator handling the case, Odame Okyere insisted that some five institutions failed to conduct due diligence before sanctioning the payment of GH�51.2 million to Mr. Woyome in 2010. He cited the Attorney-General�s office, the Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning (MOFEP), the Bank of Ghana (BoG), the Local Organizing Committee (LOC) of CAN 2008 and Building Industry Consultants (BIC) and then Ministry of Education Youth and Sports. Continuing with his cross examination, lead counsel for Mr. Agbesi Woyome, Lawyer Sarfo Buabeng put it to the witness that he misled the court during the last sitting. Lawyer Boabeng presented documents to prove that then Minister for Education, Youth and Sports, Mr. Yaw Osaafo Marfo, the Attorney-General�s office, the Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning (MOFEP), the Bank of Ghana (BoG), the Local Organizing Committee (LOC) of CAN 2008 and Building Industry Consultants (BIC) recommended payment of the said monies to his client [Mr. Woyome]. He maintained that the cited bodies acted properly but Mr. Okyere responded in opposition. He said: �The entities did not do due diligence on documents submitted by Woyome, because when the investigation team sent Woyome�s documents to Bank Austria, they found that no money had been committed to support any project in Ghana.� Appearing in court as the ninth and last prosecution witness, Mr. Okyere read some documents to support his inference. But Lawyer Sarfo vehemently challenged the witness to be consistent in his submissions. Mr. Woyome�s sympathizers� majority of who were women from Nima stormed the courts room in solidarity.