Woyome Did Not Defraud The State; It Is Government Rather!

“A system that creates a problem cannot solve it! Simply because it contains the seed of the problem.” – Prof. Muhammad Yunus, 2006 Nobel Peace Prize

Sincerely, I am happy for Mr. Woyome. The man has suffered more than enough shame, vilification,ridicule, aspersions, curses, character assassination, name calling and what have you? I doubt any Ghanaian since Gold Coast, has ever suffered such level of public derision before. I cannot wish what has befallen Mr. Woyome for even my worst enemy.

President Mahama must with immediate effect, on behalf of his Government, offer for the benefit of Mr. Woyome, an unqualified apology for the crisis they have caused his person, his family and his reputation albeit, needlessly.

This is without prejudice to any action that Mr. Woyome will rightly want to take against the State in respect of the extensively irreparable damage the Government has caused him. I strongly urge Mr. Woyome to counter-sue the Government. Of course,it is not unbeknownst to me that just like the huge resources spent on the prosecution of this frivolous case, the resultant compensation that the court will justifiably award Woyome shall be paid from and with my taxes.

But is that not one of the burdens of democracy – that a wicked and corrupt-minded cohorts could find their way into a thievery and fleecing enterprise called Government;create, loot and share your taxes; turn around to waste additional taxes in persecuting a non-existent culprit and still have the moral scruples to call your genuine plights and complaints as cynicism, doom, gloom, hopelessness and despondency being foisted onto the nation?

The Supreme Court was emphatic when my Fount of Integrity, Mr. Martin Amidu, beseeched them on the scandal. They with fluorescent ability declared that Ghana had no contract with Mr. Woyome to make him eligible for that gargantuan 51.2 million Ghana Cedis judgment debt. The whole exercise, the Supreme Court found, was a "create,loot and share" scam.

So, if the Republic of Ghana had no contract with Mr. Woyome, did he obtain the judgment debt fraudulently? The High Court says NO. At a point in time, in breach of every known common sense, Government was ridiculously running amok,shouting to whoever will listen to them that the State and Woyome had a valid contract on the basis of which they pleaded with him to take the Ghana Cedis 51.2 million and that, the amount was far less than what Woyome had mounted to obtain in Court. So Ghanaians rather must commend the Government for saving us from paying a higher amount.

Today,the dust has all settled. Thanks to Mr. Martin Amidu, we all know that Ghana and Woyome had no contract. The Government's claim that the Republic of Ghana had a contract with the man was but a weighty lie. Second, the High Court says Mr. Woyome NEVER defrauded the State.

Only two actors were purported to have engineered this thievery endeavour which has now become yet, the biggest scandal ever to have hit our nation: Mr Woyome and the Government. Who then defrauded the State (Ghana) in view of the thorough exoneration of Mr. Woyome by the High Court? As to why the Attorney General coulddecide to present a “SHODDY” [1] case on behalf of Ghana in the High Court may now make sense.

A section of Ghanaians rightly ill-stricken by the High Court's decision are charging the Attorney General for incompetence. Well, given the sum of several cases the State has cheaply lost, I will not contend such a view.

However, I have a different set of Section B Questions for the AG. What was she thinking about– that the Court was going to accept her baseless proposition that Mr. Woyome solely was the constituent of the looting brigade? Is Mr. Woyome the Government? Unsurprisingly, the judge did not understand the AG's wilful election not to invite “key actors in the case including [the] former Attorney General and her deputy to testify” as reported by Myjoyonline. (Emphasis added).

Before I turn from my laptop to wipe my flowing tears for Ghana, if there is any sane Ghanaian who still think the Government will ever retrieve the money fraudulently paid to Woyome (not fraudulently obtained by Woyome) as ordered by the Supreme Court, then she may need to scroll up and re-read the quote I preceded the article with.

For myself, as long as Ghana continues with the direction leadership has set it to go, I forever will remain “cynical”. Let whoever want call me names, for I have the dead goat syndrome.

Festival Godwin Boateng
A 'cynical' Ghanaian
[1] Justice Ajet-Nasam, described the prosecution's case as "shoddy" and therefore acquitted and discharged Woyome - See more at: Woyome freed in ₵51m judgement debt scandal – myjoyonline.com