[ 2015-04-24 ]

Bagbin: Woyome saga haunts Barton Oduro
First Deputy Speaker of Parliament Ebo
Barton-Oduro is being haunted by his role in the
controversial Ghc51 million judgment debt paid to
businessman Alfred Woyome, Majority leader Alban
Bagbin has revealed.

According to him, although no action has been
taken against the former deputy attorney general
over the matter, he appears deeply disturbed over
it.

“Even though action has not been taken, we can
see he is not in full gear, it has affected him.

“So even though we have not gone to the extent
of prosecuting,the relationship between him and
other members is not the same again. The member is
having some difficulties with his conscience,”
Bagbin stated at an event in Accra Thursday.

Ebo Barton-Oduro as a Deputy Attorney-General in
the erstwhile Mills administration was
instrumental in the Waterville-Woyome saga.

He was of the view that government had no case
defending the issue in court saying, the payment
of the judgment rather saved the state money.

Woyome who was standing trial for defrauding the
state was on March 12, 2015 freed by the High
court which sat on the matter.

He was arrested on February 3, 2012 after the
Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO), which
had been commissioned by President John Evans Atta
Mills to investigate the payment to him, had
implicated him for wrongdoing.

He was first arraigned on February 6, 2012,
together with three others.

The state brought the criminal case against him
after the Supreme Court ordered him to refund the
money paid him to the state.

Justice Ajet-Nassam in his ruling said the state
failed to convince him that Woyome acquired the
money fraudulently.

Source - Starrfmonline

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