Godfred Dame
A senior lecturer at the University of Cape Coast (UCC), Mr. Jonathan Asante Otchere has expressed strong disapproval of Ghana’s Attorney-General, Godfred Yeboah Dame’s continued stay in office in the wake of the controversial leaked tape.
He asserted that Godfred Dame has disgraced himself, joining a tall list of persons and civil society organisations calling for either his resignation or sack.
“He has disgraced himself. Why did he tell the caller that Dr. Ato Forson came to beg him to drop the case? That would have been an indictment on the integrity of Dr. Ato Forson but he did not say anything like that in court, you are now saying it in the court of public opinion,” he said.
“What he has done is a big shame and the President should sack him. I have said time without number that I do not like the motive of the Attorney General as he is always driven by vindictiveness.
"If there should be a change of government, this alone is enough for him to face prosecution in the law court,” Asante Otchere stated.
Background
The integrity of the justice system has been called into question following allegations of selective justice by the Attorney-General, Godfred Dame.
The case in which Dame is accused of unethical practices is The Republic versus Ato Forson and Richard Jakpa, where the two accused are facing charges over causing financial loss to state to the tune of €2.37 million in the purchase of 30 ambulances out of the 200 targeted for the country between 2014 and 2016.
The third accused person Mr. Richard Jakpa made a shocking claim that the Attorney-General attempted to influence the process by impressing on him to implicate the first accused person, Dr. Ato Forson who doubles as the Minority Leader in Parliament and Member of Parliament(MP) of Ajumako Enyan Asiam.
According to the third accused, the Attorney General made several phone calls to him and met him physically, asking him to skew his testimony in exchange for favourable treatment.
