Vote out Mahama to retrieve Woyome loot – Amidu

Alfred Agbesi Wyome

Former Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Martin Amidu has stated he needs Ghanaians to vote out President John Mahama in order for him to retrieve the GHS 51 million state cash wrongfully paid to businessman, Alfred Agbesi Wyome.

“As the citizen vigilante I have done everything I could to use the constitutional process to compel Woyome to pay back the monies he owes to the people of Ghana,” said Amidu in his latest epistles.

“Now I ask that you use Ghana’s democratic process to stand up for what’s right, and to protect the public purse from being plundered with impunity by the incumbent government whose conduct has been found to be unconstitutional right alongside the likes of people like Alfred Agbesi Woyome,” he pleaded.

The beleaguered businessman in 2010 was paid GHS 51 million for helping Ghana raise funds to construct stadia for purposes of hosting the 2008 Africa Cup of Nations. However, an Auditor General’s report released in the same year stated that the monies were paid illegally.

The Supreme Court, on July 29, 2014, ordered Woyome to refund the monies to the state on the grounds that he got them out unconstitutionally and invalid contracts between the state and Waterville Holdings Limited in 2006.

More than two years after the order, the state is yet to retrieve the monies from Woyome. According to Amidu, retrieving the money has dragged because the president is also a beneficiary, hence the move by the current Attorney General and Minister of Justice to stop his attempts to orally cross examine Woyome on his failure to pay back the monies.

In order to retrieve the money, Amidu thus urged Ghanaians to “Vote this President out on 7th December 2016 so that we do not need any further examination orally on oath of Woyome by me in person for you to get your money back.”

He added that “the new Government will have the duty of getting your money back in the shortest possible time because of the confidence you would have reposed in it. Do we wait another four years while a John Mahama Government drags its feet and shields the very lootees it has helped?

“Fellow Citizens, if you vote the incumbent President back into power after 7th December 2016, I can assure you that no examination on oath by me will ever get your money back again. You will be re-electing a Government that has been deceiving you about its intention to retrieve even a pesewa. This is why if we want our money back plus every interest on it we must vote for a new President on 7th December 2016.”

Source: Ghana/StarrFMonline.com/103.5FM/Mohammed Awal

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