MARTIN AMIDU TALKS SERIOUS MATTERS IN WOYOME CASE..READ WHY

Former Attorney General and Minister of Justice,
Mr Martin Amidu has broken his silence on the
acquittal and discharge of businessman Alfred
Agbesi Woyome in the matter of the over Gh
₵51million judgment debt saga.
In a rejoinder to an interview granted
Graphiconline by Mr Tony Lithur in relation to
matters that bordered on a relationship between
Woyome, Tony Lithur and Marietta Brew Appiah-
Opong, Mr Amidu said the two lawyers [Tony and
Marietta] worked for Austro-Invest, a company
that jointly benefited from Woyome's judgement
debt.
Mr Tony Lithur, a legal practitioner, had denied
rumours he has been defending businessman Alfred
Agbesi Woyome in court.
He told Graphiconline that the rumour, which had
found its way onto radio stations and other media
platforms including social media, was completely
false. "In any case, Woyome himself has stated
publicly that I have a personal vendetta against
him,” counsel noted.
In his rejoinder, Mr Amidu said the facts as he
know them are that there is no evidence to allege
that Lithur, Brew and Co were ever lawyers for
Alfred Agbesi Woyome.
However, he said it was a fact that Lithur, Brew
and Co were lawyers for Austro-Invest
Management Ltd, a foreign registered and wholly
owned company which he said was a joint
beneficiary with Woyome in the over GH₵51million
"unconstitutionally paid by the NDC Government
through its financier, Woyome.
"My contention has always been that because of the
obligations assumed by Lithur, Brew and Co as
lawyers for Austro-Invest to protect the interest
of Austro-Invest, the Attorney General, Mrs.
Marrieta Brew Appiah-Opong as a partner in
Lithur, Brew and Co at the time the NDC
Government unconstitutionally paid the over GH
₵51million to the joint beneficiary interest of
Austro-Invest and Woyome does not have the
impartiality to handle on behalf of the Republic of
Ghana any case involving Alfred Agbesi Woyome."
He argued that in making decisions to prosecute or
amend charges she [Brew Appiah-Opong] will be
more inclined in her official capacity to protect
the interest of Austro-Invest.
"Indeed she will be inclined to be biased against
even Alfred Agbesi Woyome, and protect Austro-
Invest."
Mr Amidu recalled that after the Supreme Court
unanimously decided on July 26, 2014 that the
purported contract that earned Woyome the
judgment debt was unconstitutional, the Entry of
Judgment filed by the Attorney-General, Mrs.
Brew Appiah-Opong at the Supreme Court was
selective.
She omitted the declarations that affected
Austro-Invest and the then Attorney General, Mrs
Betty Mould-Iddrisu, whose conduct in facilitating
the payment of the "Gargantuan over GH
₵51million were also declared unconstitutional."
"Woyome and I opposed the selective entry of
judgment in our respective affidavits to the entry
of judgment. The Supreme Court agreed with me
and struck out the offending entry of judgment
for non-compliance with the decision of the
Supreme Court."
Following from that, Mr Amidu said the perception
that he got in his handling of the Constitutional
cases against the Attorney General, Waterville,
and Woyome/Austro-Invest was that, "the John
Dramani Mahama NDC Government under its
Attorney General, Mrs. Brew Appiah-Opong has at
every step done everything in its power to impede
the success of the cases."
"I had made it clear to the Mills/Mahama
Government as its Attorney General that no
prosecution in the scam involving the over GH
₵51million will succeed by targeting Woyome alone
without Waterville, Austro-Invest, Samuel
Nerquaye-Tetteh, the Chief State Attorney whose
spouse EOCO reveal had received GH₵400,000 from
Woyome while he was handling the case as an
Attorney for the Government, and others.