How Joe Ghartey’s Dithering Yields A Bonanza For Rockshell

As It Open Up NPP’s Double-Standards

Investigative Desk Report

Contrary to media reports and rather infantile annotations from some New Patriotic Party (NPP) political commentators seeking to create the impression as if Mrs. Betty Mould-Iddrisu, has done the unthinkable by ensuring as then Attorney-General and Minister for Justice, that Mr. Alfred Agbesi Woyome was fairly treated as a citizen of Ghana, as regards the judgment debt paid him, credible investigations conduct by The Informer reveals otherwise.

According to this paper’s in-depth search into judgment debt paid the Rockshell Company, even though it is true that the genesis of this matter was in the 1980s, precisely under the Jerry John Rawlings’ regime, plausible information gathered indicates that Mr. Joe Ghartey, who was the Attorney-General and Minister for Justice at the time, preceding events which led to the State paying huge sums of money to the aforementioned company, refuses to go to court because, the owner is a member of the his party, the NPP.

Knowing what his intents are, Mr. Joe Ghartey per The Informer’s investigations, filed nothing in court to oppose the action of Rockshell when they applied to take summary judgment in court.

The result was that, instead of taking judgment on a figure before calculating interest, Rockshell calculated compound interest on the figure claimed, took judgment on that and then got the court to award further interest on the resultant figure.

Even though, the summary judgment was obtained in 2007, the NPP never paid a pesewa, only for the President Mills administration to be confronted with a debt of US$87Million.

According to this paper’s exploration into the matter, it came to light that Rockshell which went to court with a claim of Five Hundred Thousand Dollars and was awarded 1million Dollars as a result of the court ruling, subsequently got a bonanza of US$87million because, Joe Ghartey failed to act and the NPP equally refused to pay the judgment debt of 1million dollars awarded in 2007.

With some difficult negotiation, however, Mrs. Betty Mould-Iddrisu, who became the Attorney-General and Minister for Justice thereafter, managed to reduce the figure to US$35, 000,000, which government is paying over a period of time.

One could recall how Mrs. Betty Mould-Iddrisu managed through similar negotiations to prevail on Consul Alfred Agbesi Woyome and his solicitors, to have their figure reduced and as a result not paying what she should be paying. That is why those of us at The Informer cannot understand the hypocrisy on the part of Osei Kyei Mensah-Bonsu, aka Lawrence Addae and his group.

If the former Attorney-General, through negotiations succeeded to get Rockshell to accept the amount that government is currently paying, what is her crime in doing same in the case of Mr. Alfred Woyome?

The Informer is, therefore, calling on Osei Kyei Mensah-Bonsu and his team of seemingly ignoramuses, not to mislead the people of this country; because, all judgment debts that the present administration is confronted with were as result of their actions and inactions.

From the Joe Ghartey’s exposure, it will be better for the NPP people to shut up and save themselves from further embarrassment, or else get humiliated.