{"id":654559,"date":"2019-07-11T14:29:14","date_gmt":"2019-07-11T14:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"
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Valerie Sawyer<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

An Accra High Court has\ndismissed an application for Judicial Review in the\u00a0 form of certiorari filed by a former Board\nmember of Ghana National Gas Company (GNGC), Dr. Valerie Sawyerr seeking to\nq"},"modified":"2019-07-11T14:29:14","modified_gmt":"2019-07-11T14:29:14","slug":"court-throws-out-valerie-sawyerr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/07\/11\/court-throws-out-valerie-sawyerr\/","title":{"rendered":"Court Throws Out Valerie Sawyerr"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/p>\n

\n

Valerie Sawyer<\/strong><\/p>\n

An Accra High Court has
\ndismissed an application for Judicial Review in the\u00a0 form of certiorari filed by a former Board
\nmember of Ghana National Gas Company (GNGC), Dr. Valerie Sawyerr seeking to
\nquash the findings of Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO) into the
\naccounts of the state-owned company.<\/p>\n

According to the court,
\nEOCO had given her an opportunity to be heard via a letter of invitation hence
\ncannot complain that she was denied her natural justice.<\/p>\n

Her suit against EOCO
\nand the Attorney General was borne out of a government sanctioned forensic
\naudit last year which revealed that the acquisition of helicopters worth over
\n$100 million by Ghana Gas Company caused financial loss to the state because the
\nchoppers were never utilized.<\/p>\n

The four Z-9EH
\nhelicopters bought from China for surveillance by Ghana Gas during the Mahama
\nNDC administration at the total cost of $100 million ($25m each) was
\ncommissioned by then President John Mahama in September 2015.<\/p>\n

According to the
\nforensic audit report, \u201cThe helicopters purchased from China National Aero
\nTechnology Import and Export Corporation (CATIC) have never been used for the
\npurpose of its purchase, causing the state to lose $54,800,000\u201d.<\/p>\n

Suit<\/p>\n

Dr. Sawyerr who was a
\nformer Deputy Chief of Staff under the Mahama administration then applied to an
\nAccra High Court for a \u201ca declaration that the audit report which implicated
\nme, as a former board member of Ghana National Gas Company Limited, was done in
\nbreach of my right to administrative justice and my right to a fair hearing\u201d.<\/p>\n

Her suit was also
\nseeking an order of Certiorari for the forensic audit report by EOCO which
\nimplicated her and the other board members to be brought before the court for
\nit to be quashed. <\/p>\n

Dr. Sawyerr also wanted
\nthe court to stop the security agencies from inviting her for questioning
\nsince, in her opinion, such invitations are a form of \u201charassment.\u201d<\/p>\n

AG Response<\/p>\n

But the Attorney General
\nin a response to the suit on behalf of EOCO described the application as
\n\u201ccompletely frivolous and borne out of an improper appreciation of the law
\nregarding the various subject matters.\u201d<\/p>\n

The response signed by
\nDeputy Attorney General, Godfred Yeboah Dame, Dr. Sawyerr\u2019s application could
\nnot pinpoint any adverse decision taken by EOCO or the AG\u2019s Office which she is
\nseeking the court to quash.<\/p>\n

Again, the Deputy AG
\navers that Valerie Sawyerr in her application kept referring to an audit
\nreports throughout, yet was unable to provide the court with that audit report.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe court, without
\nseeing the Audit Report in question, cannot quash same. The duty to file same
\nis placed by the rules on the applicant before filing his application\u201d, Deputy
\nAttorney General averred.<\/p>\n

Ruling <\/p>\n

The court in its ruling
\nheld that the audit report prepared by Morrison & Associates was part of
\nthe process of investigations and it was submitted to EOCO for further
\ninvestigations.<\/p>\n

The court held that EOCO
\nought to accord her a hearing and indeed did so by sending her an invitation
\nwhich the plaintiff exhibited in her application.<\/p>\n

It was the opinion of the court that had EOCO proceeded to impose sanctions on her without giving her a hearing, she could then have complained about denial of natural justice.<\/p>\n

BY Gibril Abdul Razak <\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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