OccupyGhana welcomes Supreme Court's decision on Woyome

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• Edward 9 years ago

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• OLD SOLDIER 9 years ago

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  Petrobras: Brazil officials forced to give $60m back
  Brazilian prosecutors leading a major corruption investigation have returned $60m (£49m) to state oil giant Petrobras.
  The money was retrieved ...
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  Petrobras: Brazil officials forced to give $60m back
  Brazilian prosecutors leading a major corruption investigation have returned $60m (£49m) to state oil giant Petrobras.
  The money was retrieved from senior politicians, civil servants and businessmen who agreed to cooperate with the investigation. The kickback scheme cost Petrobras an estimated $1.8bn, said company boss Pedro Parente. The scandal has rocked the country and led to mass street protests. Dozens of politicians and some of Brazil's wealthiest businessmen have been arrested as part of the inquiry, known as Operation Car Wash, over the past two years. Under new legislation, they were allowed to tell what they knew and return some of the corruption money in exchange for shorter sentences. 'Society at our side' Many in Brazil criticised the operation, saying it was politically-motivated and targeted mostly members of the left-wing Workers Party, including former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.But Operation Car Wash top prosecutor, Deltan Dallagnol, urged the public to support the investigation."We will be defeated if society is not at our side," said Mr Dallagnol.Image copyright AFP Image caption The political crisis triggered by the Petrobras investigation eventually led to the impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff in September.Ms Rousseff was not directly implicated in the scandal and was dismissed for allegedly tampering with the budget.But many politicians close to the governing coalition were arrested and charged for taking bribes from Petrobras.Prosecutors say they were paid vast amounts in exchange for granting lucrative contracts to private companies that overcharged Petrobras.The prosecutors had previously returned $150m (£120m) of corruption money to Petrobras.

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• Ama 9 years ago

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• Araba Thompson!!! 9 years ago

  For allowing and permitting Nabba to walk and talk free is the evidence that Ghana police is now a toilet paper.

  For allowing and permitting Nabba to walk and talk free is the evidence that Ghana police is now a toilet paper.

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• Citizen 9 years ago

  Petrobras: Brazil officials forced to give $60m back
  Brazilian prosecutors leading a major corruption investigation have returned $60m (£49m) to state oil giant Petrobras.
  The money was retrieved from senior politicians, ...
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  Petrobras: Brazil officials forced to give $60m back
  Brazilian prosecutors leading a major corruption investigation have returned $60m (£49m) to state oil giant Petrobras.
  The money was retrieved from senior politicians, civil servants and businessmen who agreed to cooperate with the investigation. The kickback scheme cost Petrobras an estimated $1.8bn, said company boss Pedro Parente. The scandal has rocked the country and led to mass street protests. Dozens of politicians and some of Brazil's wealthiest businessmen have been arrested as part of the inquiry, known as Operation Car Wash, over the past two years. Under new legislation, they were allowed to tell what they knew and return some of the corruption money in exchange for shorter sentences. 'Society at our side' Many in Brazil criticised the operation, saying it was politically-motivated and targeted mostly members of the left-wing Workers Party, including former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.But Operation Car Wash top prosecutor, Deltan Dallagnol, urged the public to support the investigation."We will be defeated if society is not at our side," said Mr Dallagnol.Image copyright AFP Image caption The political crisis triggered by the Petrobras investigation eventually led to the impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff in September.Ms Rousseff was not directly implicated in the scandal and was dismissed for allegedly tampering with the budget.But many politicians close to the governing coalition were arrested and charged for taking bribes from Petrobras.Prosecutors say they were paid vast amounts in exchange for granting lucrative contracts to private companies that overcharged Petrobras.The prosecutors had previously returned $150m (£120m) of corruption money to Petrobras.

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• Kanye East 9 years ago

  Woyome is talking too much. He should shut up and pay back the money at today's cedi rate plus interest and penalties. Woyome owes Ghanaians more than NGH100,000,000. This darn Ewe

  Woyome is talking too much. He should shut up and pay back the money at today's cedi rate plus interest and penalties. Woyome owes Ghanaians more than NGH100,000,000. This darn Ewe

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• Kanye East 9 years ago

  Woyome is talking too much. He should shut up and pay back the money at today's cedi rate plus interest and penalties. Woyome owes Ghanaians more than NGH100,000,000. This darn Ewe thief belongs in prison. Akufoaddo will jail ...
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  Woyome is talking too much. He should shut up and pay back the money at today's cedi rate plus interest and penalties. Woyome owes Ghanaians more than NGH100,000,000. This darn Ewe thief belongs in prison. Akufoaddo will jail you. Just wait and see.

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• DOG BEATER 9 years ago

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  NAME IS AS STUPID AS THE PEOPLE IN IT.BLINDLY AND MULISHLY COPYING OCCUPY WALL STREET.SINCE THEY ARE IN GHANA THE TWITS ALREADY OCCUPY GHANA.U OCCUPY A PLACE U DONT HV ACCESS TO AS A PROTEST AGAINST THAT LOCATION.MUST BE THE AKRANTIE BINI THEY EAT.

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• THE REAL C.Y. ANDY-K 9 years ago

  Alfred Woyome being used as “sacrificial lamb” – Martin Amidu
  Martin Amidu Serious.jpeg
  
  Sacked former Attorney General and Minister for Justice, Martin Amidu, has once again jabbed State prosecutors in the infamous ...
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  Alfred Woyome being used as “sacrificial lamb” – Martin Amidu
  Martin Amidu Serious.jpeg
  
  Sacked former Attorney General and Minister for Justice, Martin Amidu, has once again jabbed State prosecutors in the infamous Alfred Agbesi Woyome judgment debt saga. He has described the re-arrest of Woyome as one smacking of “selective justice.”
  
  In a statement released on Monday morning, he said: “Mr. Woyome as a person was not the problem. The problem was and is the system and method used to commit such suspected fraud on the Republic.
  
  “In my respectful view, to isolate Mr. Alfred Agbesi Woyome alone for prosecution smacks of personalizing the problem, selective justice, is inequitable, and portrays him as a sacrificial lamb.”
  
  Below is the full statement unedited:
  
  Martin Amidu’s Perspective On The Nolle Prosequi In The Woyome Case
  
  As you all must know by now, on Monday, 4th June 2012 the High Court trying the Woyome case was given the assurance that the trial will commence on 5th June 2012. On 5th June 2012 the charges against the accused persons were discontinued by the entry of a nolle prosequi and all the accused discharged. Alfred Agbesi Woyome was alone rearrested and charged with two offences and the case adjourned.
  
  I had demanded as Attorney-General, and continue to advocate as a citizen of Ghana, for the retrieval of the sum of GH¢51 million plus involved in the GARGANTUAN FRAUD and the prosecution of the perpetrators of the fraud on the Republic of Ghana. The name Alfred Agbesi Woyome came to symbolize the suspected fraud as a systemic problem that needed to be dealt with in accordance with the due process of law in the hope of preventing any future recurrence. Mr. Woyome as a person was not the problem. The problem was and is the system and method used to commit such suspected fraud on the Republic. In my respectful view, to isolate Mr. Alfred Agbesi Woyome alone for prosecution smacks of personalizing the problem, selective justice, is inequitable, and portrays him as a sacrificial lamb.
  
  The circus that started with the arrest of Mr. Woyome and 3 others by the police; their being charged before the High Court; the several adjournments and promises of a trial; and the eventual discharge of all the accused on 5th June 2012; and the subsequent immediate rearrest of Mr. Woyome alone for trial needs to be explained to the public. Did Mr. Woyome walk alone to the Bank to defraud Ghana of GH¢51 million plus? Did any other person(s) facilitate the commission of the suspected fraud? Were there supporting documents and letters from any accomplices that convinced the Attorney-General of the veracity of settling the claim and ordering payments? In this regard, several letters and documents published by the “New Crusading Guide” newspaper which are not on the incomplete file in the Attorney-General’s Office point to collusion and collaboration. The Attorney-General’s main file was said to have been missing since 2006 and the case was settled without even any of the signed contracts betweenWaterville and the Government of Ghana on the files of the Attorney-General’s Department.
  
  By convention, the Attorney-General does not need to explain to the Court why he enters a nolle prosequi. But I have no doubt whatsoever that under the Constitution the public has a right to comment and react to the exercise of that right when there are matters of national and constitutional interest arising from such a decision. The late Mr. Justice A. N. E. Amissah accurately states the position in his “Criminal Procedure inGhana” as follows:
  
  “The power of the Attorney-General to discontinue a case by the entry of a nolle prosequi or withdrawal is political in nature. No law prescribes the conditions under which it should be exercised or requires that he explains the reasons under which it should be exercised or requires that he explains the reasons for doing so. However, if he does so improperly this might have serious political consequences for the Government of which he is a member or result in his personal fall from office….the entry of a nolle prosequi in the famous Campbell case which had political overtones led to the fall of the first Labour Government in 1924…”
  
  The Attorney-General’s Office is one place where the Republic expects integrity and trust in the settlement of legitimate legal claims on behalf of “We the People”. In this Mr. Woyome case, Mr. Nerquaye-Tetteh, Chief State Attorney, was working under me and in charge of the Woyome case urging me in November 2011 to withdraw the case from Court for a settlement. As late as December 2011 he was urging me to sign a letter to the Minister of Finance to facilitate the withdrawal of the case and the payment of an additional GH¢9 million plus to Mr. Woyome as interest which I refused to sign. The Economic and Organized Crime Report reveals that his wife’s account was credited with GH¢400,000.00 in June 2011 while Mr. Nerquaye-Tetteh was still the Chief State Attorney in charge of the case. Both he and his wife have been discharged by the Attorney-Generals’ entry of nolle prosequi without any explanation whatsoever and are at liberty to leave the jurisdiction. But this is the key person upon whom the Attorney-General, whom, the Government and Parliament knew from day one, had never practised seriously before any Court of record, depended upon in the whole transaction.
  
  I remember vividly one of the prosecutors in the case lamenting when Mr. Nerquaye-Tetteh became a suspect about how she could prosecute him. I reminded her that crime is crime and it was more important for the Attorney-General’s Department where one of its numbers goes wrong to redeem its credibility by dealing with the person resolutely to restore the confidence of the public in the Department. Is the nolle prosequi entered in respect of Nerquaye-Tetteh and Gifty Nerquaye-Tetteh intended to protect the Attorney-General’s own staff and spouse or did the Economic and Organized Crime Office mislead the public by the findings it made in its report? What has happened to the foreign companies that wrote letters, signed agreements, and deposed to facts supporting the claim of Mr. Woyome?
  
  It is in the interest of the NDC as political party to encourage the Government to explain, in this election year, the reasons for the entry of the nolle prosequi and the rearrest in the manner it took place and what the stakes are for other suspects. A nolle prosequi is of a political nature and as political animals the electorate who have to decide on 7th December 2012 should not be left guessing whether or not Mr. Woyome is a mere sacrificial lamb for electoral purposes or that the NDC and the Government are really determined to fight crime as crime in a systemic manner.
  
  As to the question of me relying on the Attorney-General’s integrity to handle the case with honesty, I am unable to do so because any lawyer in public office who is shown by police investigations to have manufactured an assassination attempt on himself is not worth the high moral character and proven integrity for that quasi judicial office. And the same Government still expects the public to trust the fairness of the Deputy Attorney-General who saw nothing wrong with the payment in the first place. “We the People” have a political right to be informed of the Government’s intentions.
  
  Martin A. B. K. Amidu **

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• Johnson 9 years ago

  Occupyghana go after 3% of Ghana's soil given by Npp to their cronies the EO Group. Its hundreds of millions of dollars. If you love Ghana go after that kick back. Hypocrites.

  Occupyghana go after 3% of Ghana's soil given by Npp to their cronies the EO Group. Its hundreds of millions of dollars. If you love Ghana go after that kick back. Hypocrites.

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• MAN 9 years ago

  Woyome za edzo laa

  Woyome za edzo laa

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• adiza 9 years ago

  Ghana would hopefully secure the lost $51milliom to started an underground railway system. Accra is too congested.

  Ghana would hopefully secure the lost $51milliom to started an underground railway system. Accra is too congested.

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• Johnson 9 years ago

  Occupyghana should follow up on those who are creating judgement debt in Ghana. Npp and kufuor created several. It was an avenue for relatively save chop chop. Loot and share avenue. Check our budgets and you will always find ...
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  Occupyghana should follow up on those who are creating judgement debt in Ghana. Npp and kufuor created several. It was an avenue for relatively save chop chop. Loot and share avenue. Check our budgets and you will always find judgement debt payment. Occupyghana is Npp. Its founder Andah wanted to use it as a stepping stone into Parliament. Tofiakwa. NDC all the way

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• NORVISI ANYIDOHO KWAME 9 years ago

  THE PRESENT ATTORNEY GENERAL ARE THE LAWYERS FOR SNR AGBESI WOYOME DURING THE COLLECTION OF THE MONEY, HOW DO U EXPECT THE ATTORNEY GENERAL TO FOLLOW UP THE MONEY.

  THE PRESENT ATTORNEY GENERAL ARE THE LAWYERS FOR SNR AGBESI WOYOME DURING THE COLLECTION OF THE MONEY, HOW DO U EXPECT THE ATTORNEY GENERAL TO FOLLOW UP THE MONEY.

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