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Peacefmonline.com can confirm that former Minister for Education and Sports, Yaw Osafo Maafo, has left the Police Criminal Investigations Department (CID) after being invited over to answer questions on the controversial GH�51 million judgment debt scandal. The former cabinet minister in the erstwhile Kufuor administration was invited to assist in investigations into the infamous Woyome scandal. Mr Osafo Maafo reportedly spent some three hours with the police CID investigators. His counsel, Lawyer Godfred Odame, confirmed the release of his client to PeaceFM a short while ago. Osafo Maafo's invitation follows on the heels of the arrest of a former Deputy Youth and Sports Minister and incumbent MP for Aburi-Nsawam, Hon. O. B Amoah over the weekend and his subsequent release on Monday. Hon. O.B. Amoah is on a GH�20 million police inquiry bail with two sureties. According to Lawyer Godfred Odame, his client was asked to go after being questioned regarding his role in the entire Woyome scandal. "He was later asked to go and when his services are required, will be invited again," the lawyer disclosed. Mr. Osafo Maafo, who was Sports Minister at the time the contract for the construction of stadia for CAN 2008 tournament was awarded, was cited in the Economic and Organised Crimes Office (EOCO) Interim Report as the �author of the Cabinet Memo dated 27th July, 2005, which informed Cabinet of the illegality of the intended action to abrogate the tender process for the CAN 2008 stadia works." According to the EOCO Interim Report, the former MP was however, "the same person, who knowing that it was illegal to terminate the process at the stage it had reached, went ahead and wrote terminating it. � The report added: �It is yet to be fully established, however, whether it was Cabinet, which in spite of being warned about the illegality of the act or abrogating the tender process, ordered the abrogation. �