The Ranking Member on Finance Committee of Parliament, Cassiel Ato Forson insists the Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Godfred Dame has made him a target for prosecution ostensibly to silence him.<\/p>\n In a sharp rebuttal to a statement from the Attorney General\u2019s Office on Wednesday 5th January 2022, Mr. Forson indicated that the Attorney cannot deny the fact that the move to prosecute him stem from the fact that he has been vociferous on the government\u2019s economic policies.<\/p>\n \u201cI have noted a statement issued by a Deputy Attorney General claiming that by speaking out against the malice and deliberate political persecution inherent in the decision to prosecute me, I am exposing the Attorney General to \u201chate\u201d and \u201cprejudice\u201d, he disclosed.<\/p>\n He continued \u201cI wish to state that the Attorney General\u2019s office cannot determine my reaction to the sinister plot to needlessly tarnish my reputation and rob me of my liberty simply because I remain implacably opposed to the poor economic policies of this government and in particular the E-Levy.\u201d<\/p>\n According to the former Deputy Finance Minister, \u201cIt is the Attorney General who is driven by hate, prejudice and demagoguery! He is the one abusing his prosecutorial powers to silence critical political opponents.\u201d<\/p>\n The Member for Parliament for Ajumako-Enyan-Esiam explained that for instance, on Paragraph 7 of the AG\u2019s statement issued Wednesday, it was claimed that: \u201cAs stated in the facts of the case filed in court on 22nd December 2011, cabinet endorsed an executive approval of a joint memorandum submitted to the cabinet by the then Minister for Health and the first accused Cassiel Ato Forson, then Deputy Minister for Finance, for the purchase of 200 ambulances out of a medium-term credit facility of \u20ac15,800,000 between Stanbic Bank Ghana Limited and the Government of Ghana through the Ministry of Finance.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cFor the avoidance of doubt, the Cabinet memo for the purchase of the Ambulances was submitted in December 2011. I became a Deputy minister on the 2nd of May 2013. How could I have signed a cabinet MEMO in December 2011?\u201d he quizzed.<\/p>\n The Attorney General has dismissed claims by former Deputy Finance Minister, Cassiel Ato Forson, that he is being prosecuted by the state because of his stance on the controversial E-levy.<\/p>\n The former deputy Minister is being prosecuted for causing financial loss to the state over the purchase of some ambulances in 2017 under the Mahama administration. He has attributed his prosecution to his stiff opposition to the government\u2019s new tax measures.<\/p>\n However, in a statement the Attorney General\u2019s department said the claims of Mr. Ato Forson are \u201claden with factual misrepresentations and calculated at scandalizing the criminal proceedings pending in the High Court against the Member of Parliament and exposing the Attorney-General to prejudice and hatred\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Cassiel Ato Forson is a former Deputy Minister of Finance The Ranking Member on Finance Committee of Parliament, Cassiel Ato Forson insists the Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Godfred Dame has made him a target for prosecution ostensibly to silence him. In a sharp rebuttal to a statement from the Attorney General\u2019s Office on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":738587,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-738586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=738586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738586\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=738586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=738586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=738586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Cassiel](\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/88973102.295.jpg\" "\\"Cassiel")
Cassiel Ato Forson is a former Deputy Minister of Finance<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n