Catherine Afeku dodges Court hearing

*Fails to appear before court- Case adjourned to August 8 The New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) Member of Parliament (MP) for Evalue-Gwira in the Western region, Madam Catherine Ablema Afeku on Tuesday 31st, August, 2012 failed to appear before an Accra Commercial High Court as expected.

She was said to have appear before the court to give the reasons for her inability to settle the $US 217, 462.00 recovery monies which she was compelled to pay and scheduled to be paid with an interest at the prevailing bank rate from the date of the court ruling (October, 2005) till the date of payment. The Evalue-Gwira MP and her better-half’s failure to pay the recovery monies over the past seven yearshas accumulated to about $1 million, plaintiff’s Power of Attorney, Mr. Francis Kaku Nokoe noted. The trial judge, Her Lordship Barbara Ackah-Yensuwas forced to adjourn the case to Wednesday August 8, 2012, due to the defendants and their attorney’s failure to appear before the court to justify their supposed deliberate attempt to deny the Plaintiff from getting back her monies.

Her Lordship Madam Barbara Ackah-Yensu before the adjournment last Tuesday Morning said that measures must be put in place to serve and give another notification to Madam Afeku and her cohorts before the next court hearing. The Evalue-Gwira MP and her husband Mr. Seth Afeku were reported to have been sued by Mrs. Patricia Gick, facilitator and financier of Polymath Enterprises Limited in 2005 to recover her monies and equipment which she claimed were given to the Ghanaian Couple (Mr. & Mrs. Afeku) who were then based in New York. Her motive for dragging the couple (Mr. & Mrs. Afeku) to the court was as a result of allegedly defrauding her under the pretext of establishing an internet café in Ghana which was relocated to Kumasi in the Ashanti region instead of Axim with a reason best known to them.

The trail judge Her Lordship Barbara Ackah-Yensu’s final judgment charged the defendants (the Afeku’s) and ordered them to fulfill the recovery amount of $US 217,462.00 to the Plaintiff Mrs. Gick with an interest on the said amount at the prevailing bank rate from October 2005 till date of payment as well as account for all the monies and equipment sent to them.

They were also mandated to return the Mitsubishi Diamante Saloon Car with registration number AS 7323W and a cost of GH 20, 000, 00 against them.

The MP, who was once Government’s Spokesperson on Infrastructure during the NPP’s regime was portrayed by some sections of the media to have cleared herself from the court and was therefore noted as sacrosanct, adding that nothing of such indecent of alleged fraud took place between the American investor, since it had been quashed by court. So, if she had gone to clear herself from the court indeed, then why has she been dragged to court again, why was she asked to pay the recovery monies; God help us all.