Former Deputy Attorney General, Alfred Tuah-Yeboah, has criticised justifications made by the current Attorney General, Dr. Dominic Ayine, to enter a nolle prosequi, a formal notice to discontinue prosecution, in the case involving Dr. Kwabena Duffuor and seven others.
Dr. Ayine had explained that the decision was informed by progress in asset recovery and the legal complexities surrounding the case.
However, in an exclusive interview on the Channel One Newsroom on Monday, July 28, Tuah-Yeboah challenged the logic behind halting prosecution based on the recovery of 60% of the alleged funds.
Tuah-Yeboah argued that the Attorney General’s explanation raises more questions than answers.
According to him, the idea that recovering 60% of the amount justifies discontinuing prosecution is flawed.
“The moment you give the explanation, then people will also begin to query the explanation. If he had entered nolle prosequi simplicita without explanations, that one we wouldn’t even know that he would be coming back with new charges. If the Attorney General says 60% is what he thinks is the proper threshold when it comes to financial matters, then I beg to differ.
“I mean, 60% on the face of it, you may think it is something big, but what about the 40%? Who pays for the 40% especially in this particular case, where the amount involved is 5.7 billion? But we are now told that about GHS2.1 billion was something that was falsified. So I even have a question there. Who falsified it? Because the receiver was appointed by the Bank of Ghana,” he stated.
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