He said he, as an individual, is
resorting to the law courts for the retrieval of the payment to Mr
Woyome but will entreat Ghanaians to vote for a new president if they
want the money back.
“I entreat fellow
citizens once more to read between the lines and come to their own
justified conclusion that the only way the Republic and the people of
Ghana can get their looted Woyome money back is to vote out this
kleptomaniac looter Government and President on 7th December 2016,” Mr
Amidu, the anti-graft campaigner, said in a press release issued on
Monday, November 28.
“My constitutional
mandate has been to pursue the refund of the looted monies as ordered by
the Court. But every single Ghanaian can also stand against the ongoing
looting of the public purse. Use the representative democratic process
and vote this looter Government out to have our GHC51.2million loot from
Woyome back soonest after voting this President out on the 7th December
2016 elections.”
Find below the full release:
THE LOOTER GOVERNMENT AND THE LOOTEE WOYOME KNOW AMIDU HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH THE LOOTED PUBLIC PURSE: BY MARTIN A. B. K. AMIDU
I
heard Alfred Agbesi Woyome, accuse me on Citi News on 24th November
2016 at the 5.30 pm news of having ordered or authorized the Ministry of
Finance to pay him part of the GHC51.2million unconstitutionally looted
by the incumbent Government for Woyome. I also heard him allege that I
ordered or authorized a September 2011 payment of the loot which the
Ministry of Finance paid to Woyome by transfer into his accounts. These
spurious allegations are untrue and symptoms of mental exhaustion and
stress coming from the lootee of the public purse.
The
fact that I had nothing to do with the authorizations written to the
Ministry of Finance to pay any portion of the looted public purse to
Woyome was already determined finally in the declarations made by the
Supreme Court on 29th July 2014 against the looter Government
represented by the Attorney General and the lootee Woyome with
Austro-Invest Limited.
The looter, the
incumbent Government of Ghana, itself set up the “Commission of Enquiry
Into Payments From Public Funds Arising From Judgment Debts & Akin
Matters (2012/C.I 79)” of a sole Justice of its own choice. The
independent Justice and his Commission found that I had nothing to do
with the looted public purse. The looter Government accepted the
recommendations of the report of the Commission as disclosed by the
“White Paper On The Report of The Commission of Enquiry….(2012/C.I. 79)”
at pages 3 and 4. The Commission of Enquiry commended me so highly that
the incumbent looter Government which set it up, probably in the hope
of finding anything against me, disgracefully tried to interfere with
the Commission’s findings and recommendations commending my honesty and
integrity in the matter.
I also heard Woyome
speaking on his own behalf and on behalf of this incumbent looter
Government accusing me of having something to do with interest payments
on the looted monies which the Chief State Attorney Samuel Nerquaye
Tetteh recommended through Amma Gaisie, the Solicitor General, to me in a
memorandum dated 3rd November 2011 for approval and which I refused to
approve with instructions that the matter be resolved in the Court. But
the same Commission of Enquiry appointed by this very incumbent looter
Government did not find that I had anything to do with the proposed
interest payments as I was indeed the person who aborted that attempt
further to loot the public purse.
The
Commission specifically found and established that: “i. Either through
inadvertence or pure mischief through connivance, both the Chief State
Attorney, Samuel Nerquaye Tetteh who was charged with the defence of the
suit in the trial court,…did not scrutinize the process filed before
them with judicious eyes. …The bank accounts of Mrs. Nerquaye Tetteh,
the wife of the Chief State Attorney, was later found by the Economic
and Organized Crime Office (EOCO) to have ballooned by the payment into
it of the sum of GHC400, 000.00 by Alfred Agbesi Woyome after the deal
had become successful…”. (See page 3 of the White Paper whose findings
and recommendations were reluctantly accepted by the looter Government
at page 4 thereof).
In addition to the
decision and order of the Supreme Court dated 29th July 2014, the
recommendations and findings of the Commission of Enquiry have become
binding judgments of the High Court unless reversed under the
Constitution. One would, therefore, have expected that if the lootee
Woyome was not the surrogate of the incumbent looter Government, then
the incumbent Government would have come to my defence because it
accepted the Commission of Enquiry Report in a White Paper. Instead, in
his interviews on television and radio, the President continues to
accuse me of falsehood and goads Woyome and his Ministers on to insult
me via the electronic media for defending the Constitution.
It
is clear where the incumbent Government’s support lies in the Woyome
matter. The lootee, Woyome, and the incumbent looter Government
succeeded in their aim to do whatever it took for the Supreme Court to
reverse its decision and order dated 16th November 2016 in preventing me
from examining Woyome orally on oath on 24th November 2016. Woyome did
not only file an application to discharge or reverse the order for his
examination at 9.52 am on the 23rd November 2016. He followed this up by
filing at 1.30 pm an application for the stay of proceedings to disable
me from examining him the next morning. It was not accidental that the
Government which argued against my application to examine Woyome orally
on oath on 10th November 2016 was this time round made the 2nd
Respondent in surrogate Woyome’s applications. Common sense makes such
tricks quite obvious to the ordinary person.
Woyome’s
outbursts on Citi News and other radio stations appear to be
contributions of someone who is mentally exhausted, extremely tired, and
frustrated, and his comments ought to be ignored. However, the files on
this loot of the public purse by the incumbent Government for its
lootee and surrogate, Woyome, are in Government custody and one expects a
dignified Government to have told the public by now that its surrogate
is pathologically adverse to the truth, especially when he associates me
with any payments of the looted public purse or any proposed interest.
The incumbent Government knows this is untrue, as its own Commission of
Enquiry has found.
I have responded to similar
spurious allegations of complicity in the loot in the media and on my
website, martinamidu.com in the past, but the media and the public are
being hoodwinked by Woyome’s outburst and the incumbent Government’s
overwhelming silence to set the records straight. The fact remains that
the people of Ghana are enduring economic hardships now because of this
incumbent looter Government of the public purse.
I
entreat fellow citizens once more to read between the lines and come to
their own justified conclusion that the only way the Republic and the
people of Ghana can get their looted Woyome money back is to vote out
this kleptomaniac looter Government and President on 7th December 2016.
My constitutional mandate has been to pursue the refund of the looted
monies as ordered by the Court. But every single Ghanaian can also stand
against the ongoing looting of the public purse. Use the representative
democratic process and vote this looter Government out to have our
GHC51.2million loot from Woyome back soonest after voting this President
out on the 7th December 2016 elections.
Citizens,
you have a choice to make. How much longer will we hear stories of
inadvertence, mischief and connivance by an incumbent Government that
strips the Republic’s coffers bare so that ordinary Ghanaians must
suffer financial hardship? PUT GHANA FIRST and let us get our looted
money back by voting the incumbent looter Government out on 7th December
2016. Protect Ghana and the government purse by voting for a new
President.
Martin A. B. K. Amidu
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