AG makes u-turn; files suit against Woyome

From: Ghana|Myjoyonline.com          Last Updated: December 23, 2011, 7:00 am

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The Attorney General has filed a suit at the Commercial Court, Wednesday challenging the ¢51 million payment made to NDC financier Alfred Woyome. The payment according to the suit was not properly done. Checks by Myjoyonline.com indicate the case will be heard Thursday by Justice Barbara Ackah Ayensu at the Commercial Court. It is yet not clear what reliefs the AG will be seeking but it provides a new twist to the controversial judgement debt awarded Alfred Agebsi Woyome in 2010 for alleged abrogation of contracts by the erstwhile NPP government in 2005. The Deputy Attorney General Ebo Barton Oduro had early on told Joy News government had no case in a suit brought against it by Alfred Woyome. He held that government had to enter into an agreement to pay Woyome an amount of ¢42 million for wrongful abrogation of contract in 2005, adding, government would have paid far more if it went ahead to litigate the case. It is again not clear what new information the AG is privy to which has culminated into the new case filed against Woyome.