Commercial Court adjourns Woyome case to Feb. 12

The Commercial Crimes Court in Accra hearing the suit brought against businessman Alfred Agbesi Woyome, on Monday, adjourned the case to 12 February.

This is to enable the prosecution to produce a witness in the matter. Last week the court adjourned the case after the prosecution asked for more time to produce a witness.

State attorneys however failed to produce the witness explaining that circumstances beyond their control adversely affected their resolve to produce the witness.

Mr. Woyome has been charged with conspiracy to commit crime, defrauding by false pretense and corrupting public officials in the controversial GH¢51 million judgement debt.

On January 16, 2012, the former Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Mr Martin A.B.K. Amidu, filed an affidavit to amend an earlier writ, praying the court to set aside a consent judgment awarded to Woyome, which the A-G alleged was procured through fraud.

He said new information had come to the AG's attention, and that required an amendment to the writ of summons and statement of claim filed on August 18, 2010.

Mr Amidu in his amended writ said it had come to the AG's attention that Woyome lacked the legal capacity to maintain his claim against the A-G.

This was because there was no contract between Woyome and the Government of Ghana upon which Woyome could have maintained any cause of action in the suit.