[ 2016-11-21 ]

Angry Woyome, Aides Storm Citi FM Studio
The unexpected happened last Saturday at the
studios of private radio station Citi FM when
businessman, Alfred Agbesi Woyome, the man at the
centre of the controversial GHC51 million
judgement debt, stormed the station in the
morning.

A visibly upset Alfred Woyome entered the studio
just when panellists on Citi FM’s News Analysis
Programme ‘The Big Issue’, the Executive
Director of IMANI Ghana; Franklin Cudjoe, a member
of the NPP and Legal Practitioner; John Kumah, and
member of the Progressive People’s Party (PPP),
Richard Amoah were sharing their varied opinions
on the judgement debt and his alleged role in the
saga.

According to him, he was compelled to drive to the
station because he was unhappy with comments by
the panelists on the matter.

He was accompanied by two of his aides, one of
whom got into a heated altercation with the
Producer of the Show and the Operations Manager of
the station.

The aide attempted to smash the Operations
Manager’s camera claiming he was taking photos
of his misbehaviour.

This was about an hour after he had been
interviewed live on the same show by host, Umaru
Sanda Amadu, on a press conference he organised
last Friday.

The police were later called in to calm tempers.

Background

Alfred Agbesi Woyome had this past week accused
the Supreme Court of persecuting him following its
approval for him to be orally examined by former
Attorney General, and anti-corruption campaigner,
Martin Amidu.

Mr. Woyome was paid GHc 51 million after he
claimed that he helped Ghana to raise funds to
construct stadia for purposes of hosting the 2008
African Nations Cup.

However, an Auditor General’s report released in
2010 said the amount was paid illegally him and
subsequently, the Supreme Court in 2014 ordered
Mr. Woyome to pay back the money after Mr. Amidu
challenged the legality of the payments in court.

Some efforts by the Attorney General to retrieve
the GHc51 million, including selling his property
to defray the debt, proved futile.

In 2016, the AG’s department, led by the
Minister for Justice, Marietta Brew Appiah-Oppong,
decided to discontinue an application to examine
the one-time NDC financier orally because it was
considering a possible settlement with the
defendant.

But this compelled Mr. Amidu to return to court to
seek his eventually successful order to examine
Mr. Woyome.

Source - Citifmonline

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