[ 2012-06-19 ]

Woyome's Case Against The State...
"...Ample Evidence Existed That Political
Executives Were Dealing With Me And I Did Not
Conceal Any Document Or Information From Them
....The AG With Her Eyes Wide Open Signed
Settlement Agreement..."


The New Crusading GUIDE`s Special Investigations
Team (SIT) recently intercepted within the
corridors of the Criminal Investigations
Department (CID) of the Ghana Police, several
caution statements given by Mr. Alfred Agbesi
Woyome to Police CID investigators in the wake of
his first arrest and subsequent charging with the
offence of conspiracy to commit fraud and
defrauding by false pretences and corruption of
public officer.

Our Police CID sources have further intimated that
Mr. Woyome has not revised or changed his previous
statements to investigators in the wake of his
recent discharge by a court and subsequent
re-arrest and `re-charging` with the offences of
defrauding by false pretences and fraudulently(?)
causing financial loss to the State.

The Editor-In-Chief of The New Crusading GUIDE,
Abdul-Malik Kweku Baako first disclosed excerpts
of one of Mr. Woyome’s caution statements dated
March 14, 2012, during last Saturday’s edition of
NEWSFILE; Joy FM’s and MultiTV’s flagship news
analysis programme.

In the caution statement under reference, Mr.
Woyome revealed that before he went to court in
April 2010, he instructed his Lawyer, Christoph
Koka to write a letter to the Minister of Finance
and Economic Planning with copies to highly-placed
officials at the seat of Government, the Castle ,
Osu which he(Woyome) personally delivered. He gave
the investigators a copy of the letter under
reference dated April 14, 2010. He further
revealed that when he filed his writ of summons
issued on April 19, 2010, the then
Attorney-General , Mrs. Betty Mould-Iddrisu
invited him(Woyome) and "demanded that I write to
her to clarify my capacity. I did so and per my
clarification to her, that clarification did not
compromise my writ of summons."

He continued: "Two days thereafter, I was summoned
to the Castle to meet Mr. Alex Segbefia. I met him
with my counsel, Chris Koka and the capacity
document was discussed. In the conversation, he
indicated he
was going through the documents with Valerie
Sawyerr (Dr). Upon the basis of the clarification
document, GoG did not contest the default
judgement but chose to negotiate it from over
105,000,000 Ghana Cedis to 51,000,000 Ghana Cedis;
which negotiation was conducted by the Minister of
Finance and his Committee".

He said his lawyers then put the decision arrived
at on paper for the Attorney-General to sign. He
said after the AG had signed her portion of the
Settlement Agreement, she(Betty Mould-Iddrisu)
called Mr. Nerquarye-Tetteh to bear witness for
her in their( Woyome and his counsel) presence.
Mr. Woyome added that it was the Settlement
Agreement signed by Mrs. Mould-Iddrisu which was
filed in court "to form the consent judgement"; a
"consent judgement" which he pointed out
government had subsequently applied to set aside
but failed.

Mr. Woyome strongly insisted that it was not true
that the Government of Ghana(GoG) did not know
about his writ which was later amended before the
default judgement was obtained.

"AT THE TIME WE WENT TO COURT, AMPLE EVIDENCE
EXISTED THAT THE POLITICAL EXECUTIVES WERE DEALING
WITH ME AND I DID NOT CONCEAL ANY DOCUMENT OR
INFORMATION FROM THEM. THEY HAD ALL THE DOCUMENTS
I HAD AND COULD HAVE CAUSED A DEFENCE TO HAVE BEEN
FILED BY THE STATE OR EVEN GO TO SET ASIDE THE
DEFAULT JUDGEMENT IF THEY HAD ANY DEFENCE. AT THIS
STAGE, THE POLITICAL EXECUTIVES WERE HANDLING THE
ISSUES WITH ME AND NOT THE CIVIL/PUBLIC SERVANTS,
AND IS THEREFORE NOT TRUE THAT I BRIBED/CORRUPTED
A PUBLIC OFFICER TO OBTAIN A DEFAULT JUDGEMENT AS
PER THE EOCO REPORT", Woyome articulated.

"The AG with her eyes wide open signed the
Settlement Agreement which formed the basis of the
default judgement. The AG has been in court for
the past 18 months and could not prove their case
against me. I deny absolutely the charges prefered
against me. The Chief Director of the Ministry of
Finance (Effie Ekuban Simpson) wrote a letter to
us to confirm the outcome of the negotiation and
copied the current Chief of Staff. I have attached
to this statement and handed same over to the
Police, correspondences regarding my further
statement for further explanations", concluded
Woyome in his statement to Police CID
investigators dated March 14, 2012.

Mr. Woyome is currently facing trial at a Fast
Track High Court on charges of defrauding by false
pretences and causing financial loss to the State.
He and three others had earlier been charged and
put before court on slightly different charges but
the State filed a nolle prosequi which resulted in
all four of them being discharged by the court on
June 5, 2012. However, Mr. Woyome was re-arrested
the same day and subsequently re-charged with
fresh offences including a new one of causing
financial loss to the State.

The trial which has since been adjourned to June
22, 2012, has witnessed Mr. Woyome`s Defence Team
producing official letters and correspondence
between the Ministry of Finance and Economic
Planning and the Attorney-General, in the court in
a spirited effort to validate the payment of the
51m Ghana Cedis made to their client by the State
between 2010 and 2011.

Keen watchers of the on-going Woyome trial have
speculated that the Defence Team`s strategy is to
show in the course of the trial that their client
procured the GHc 51m payment not under the cloak
of darkness but in the open and with the overt
endorsement and collaboration of those Mr. Woyome
has described as "Political Executives" who had
their "eyes wide open" when they were dealing with
him prior to the default judgement and the
subsequent payment of the " gargantuan amount of
money as judgement debt".

Please turn to page two of this edition for the
publication of excerpts of Mr. Woyome`s March 14,
2012 statement to Police CID investigators and
stay tuned for more exclusive exposures of the
genesis and intricacies of " Woyomegate".

Source - New Crusading Guide

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