NPP “baffled” as Woyome escapes jail - Afoko

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BBC NEWS! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 9 years ago

FUCK KENNEDY AGYAPONG , FUCK OSAFO STUPID MARFO , FUCK NANA BINLADDO, FUCK KUFOUR , FUCK AKAN'S NPP DRUG PARTY AND FUCK GA'S AND EWE HATERS.

FUCK KENNEDY AGYAPONG , FUCK OSAFO STUPID MARFO , FUCK NANA BINLADDO, FUCK KUFOUR , FUCK AKAN'S NPP DRUG PARTY AND FUCK GA'S AND EWE HATERS.
APPEAL JUDGE 9 years ago

SURE, YOU ARE JUST A CUNT

SURE, YOU ARE JUST A CUNT
Close Observer 9 years ago

THERE ARE A LOT OF FOOLISH FOLLOWERS THERE TO COVER YOUR BACK.
ACHEAMPONG, UTUKA, FELLI, AMEDUME, AFRIFA AND AKUFFO DIED FOR NOTHING.

VOTE MAHAMA AND HIS USELESS NDC PARTY OUT IN 2016. 26 Years of USELESS RULE is enough. ...
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THERE ARE A LOT OF FOOLISH FOLLOWERS THERE TO COVER YOUR BACK.
ACHEAMPONG, UTUKA, FELLI, AMEDUME, AFRIFA AND AKUFFO DIED FOR NOTHING.

VOTE MAHAMA AND HIS USELESS NDC PARTY OUT IN 2016. 26 Years of USELESS RULE is enough. Mahama doesn't know what he is doing at the presidency. HE HAS NO IDEAS OR SOLUTION TO THE PROBLEMS THEY HAVE CAUSED. HE IS ONLY CELEBRATING HIS POSITION LIKE A GHANAIAN/NIGERIAN MOVIE ACTOR IN A MOVIE. VOTE HIM OUT IN 2016.
Dean 9 years ago

GO AND SHIT @ MPOANO.DICK HEAD.

GO AND SHIT @ MPOANO.DICK HEAD.
kobi 9 years ago

do u also call ur self human being a God perfect hand made I m sorry for u tnx

do u also call ur self human being a God perfect hand made I m sorry for u tnx
JK 9 years ago

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Do you live on being insulted? Every post of yours is borne out of abject stupidity. Do you do it on purpose so that people will insult you? Pathetic!

BBC News,

Do you live on being insulted? Every post of yours is borne out of abject stupidity. Do you do it on purpose so that people will insult you? Pathetic!
Juror # 313 9 years ago

Azeem's rational that Betty Mould Idrisu, Barton Oduro and others should have been produce for a solid case makes no sense. He seems to suggest that their words will be worth more than the others'. However, these are people ...
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Azeem's rational that Betty Mould Idrisu, Barton Oduro and others should have been produce for a solid case makes no sense. He seems to suggest that their words will be worth more than the others'. However, these are people who have been accused of incompetence or worse of compromise. So why should the state use them to prosecute the case? All they would do is defend their positions which we all know. This is not the time for politics. It looks like the NPP would like to paint the AG as not serious. But the judge's actions should be scrutinized.
Ataa Kanfla 9 years ago

There is no way Woyome will ever go to jail, otherwise he will name all those who took part in the money sharing, a situation which will rather be more harmful to Mr. Government. This case died long ago.

There is no way Woyome will ever go to jail, otherwise he will name all those who took part in the money sharing, a situation which will rather be more harmful to Mr. Government. This case died long ago.
PEPENIIIII No3 !!!!!!!!!!!!!! 9 years ago

TANII IS STILL TANII, WHAT EVER IT IS. MAHAMA IS TANII, NO BRAINS! !!!!!!!!!!

TANII IS STILL TANII, WHAT EVER IT IS. MAHAMA IS TANII, NO BRAINS! !!!!!!!!!!
john mahama is a thief 9 years ago

..DOGS'?

..DOGS'?
C.Y. ANDY-K 9 years ago

I told you all so that this case was fraught with problems. Read on.

THE WOYOME CASE: I AM BAFFLED.

The date shows that I first wrote the piece below on 14 Feb. 2012 in reaction to the brouhaha surrounding the Woyome an ...
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I told you all so that this case was fraught with problems. Read on.

THE WOYOME CASE: I AM BAFFLED.

The date shows that I first wrote the piece below on 14 Feb. 2012 in reaction to the brouhaha surrounding the Woyome and Co. judgement debt payment. I am NO LONGER CONFUSED ABOUT IT but still as baffled [and roundly just as cynical] about it as I was then regardless of the recent unanimous Supreme Court decision in the case brought by the former Attorney-General, Martin Amidu, against Woyome. Honestly, I am puzzled why he chose to sue only Woyome in view of my concerns expressed as far back as Feb. 2012, which concerns are still valid today, and which concerns some are just waking up to. After all, Woyome had told the whole world how he shared the booty and Waterville even took him to court for taking too much for his "expenses". And Martin Amidu wanted him to refund that money and the SC ruled that the money should be collected from Woyome alone?! How?!

All of a sudden, to all and sundry, Woyome had accomplices who must be arrested too and prosecuted! Are they just waking up from a deep slumber? To the Brotherhood of Nitwits that dominate Ghanaweb on the NPP side of the hood, the case was and must be tribalised (the culprit must be an Ewe) and politicised (it must be an NDC conspiracy to loot and share)! So, Woyome was the perfect fall guy who just fit the bill all too well: an Ewe and an alleged NDC financier, presto! Gosh! Did they relish and wallow in it? Forget the fact that Woyome was magnanimous in his largess. Even my former roommate and erstwhile NPP Gen. Sec., Sir John, got a car from him, for legal services rendered, of course! I must ride in that car by all means one day! Ha! Ha! Ha!

Meanwhile, here's what I wrote and published then. The issues raised then were just as topical as they are now but practically everybody were blind to them, and the comments and write-ups I am reading now hardly address them. Methinks, others cannot see the handwriting of the Costra Nostra all over this case, or they are just scared of the Mafiosi and so concentrating on only the hitman?

WOYOME CASE: I AM CONFUSED!

Honestly, folks, I've been wondering if I am the only person who is confused and cannot understand how Woyome allegedly defrauded the state. Reading through the jumble of information from government sources, including the EOCO Report, correspondences published by the press, and the tons of verbiage by self proclaimed judges and moralists who have poured out their venom on Woyome and all associated with him, I am still left puzzled how and where fraud emanated from. Maybe I might have missed something due to the information deluge, with so much dissonance in it. So I am writing this to seek some clarity.

Methinks, if you filed a case in court, believing in your rights as it were, and you won the case in the face of equally competent legal experts before a judge, or in this case when the defence threw in the towel, believing that they have a weak case, how can that be a fraud? If his claims were fraudulent, then it behoves upon the court to throw it out after the defence had shown stiff opposition and defence. If the defence claimed they had a weak case and did not defend and negotiated a settlement, how can that be a fraud on the part of the plaintiff? Payment to the wife of the Chief State Attorney? Naaw! A smart person can explain that: we were planning a business venture together! Tall tale? OK, in Ghana, we all know that plaintiffs and defenders alike and seekers of public services show “appreciation” for services well rendered. It is a pervasive part of the Ghanaian conundrum. So the payment could be an honest show of appreciation for the way and manner the Chief State Attorney handled the case expeditiously. But if the “weak case” claim was just a contrived and dubious copping out by the senior officials of the Attorney General’s Dept, in tacit collusion with Woyome, then I expect not only Chief State Attorney Neequaye-Tetteh and his wife to be under arrest and so charged. The A-G herself and her assistant, Barton Oduro, must also be in the dock for collusion and abetment of a “gargantuan crime” against the state! Or, have they claimed that they were fooled by Neequaye-Tetteh? With such a big sum involved and they never bothered to review the papers for themselves before going on the debt collection mission for Woyome? Were they so daft that they thought they could pull off such a rip off without detection in the future? I pray, if indeed they acted in collusion or they were conned, whatever is the case, then I put it to you that, that is one more solid evidence to support my hypothesis that idiotic thieves and/or morons have been ruling us!

Then, another puzzle. Some said there was no contract but we have read several times mentions of a contract being signed! They also said the alleged non-existent contract was not in Woyome's name ( ha! so there was a contract after all!) and hence he couldn't claim, but that is a porous argument, as obviously, Waterville and the other parties in Austria had given him power of attorney to collect the 2% fee for financial structuring of the loans that did not eventually materialise. Woyome in his own press statement claimed that 1% of the money he collected was to go to the Austrian consortium. But the consortium withdrew from the deal, they said, but was it after the “illegal” and unconscionable abrogation of the contract by President Kufour personally, just as many other contracts were unceremoniously and recklessly terminated by his regime at great cost to the nation, or before? Clarity, fellow Ghanaians, clarity!

I haven’t read anywhere that any documents presented by Woyome were forged, so I presume the letters of authority he presented from Waterville and whoever were genuine ones. So if there is no claim to be made, as claims have been made that Waterville had already been paid by the Kufuor regime for the abrogation of the contract and for work already done, especially at El-Wak, should the owners of Waterville and the Austrian consortium not be hauled to court too, [since Woyome in a public statement mentioned them as sharing in the booty too. Remember?]. I have gleaned that Woyome was their errand man. Or, am I wrong? I need some explanation here. I beg!

A lot of hot air is being blown over this case but I am not excited by it at all. Maybe it is because I am used to the gargantuan ripping off of Ghana since the early 1960s, to the really massive losses Ghana is taking right now due to the unconscionable oil block sell-outs under the shameful C19th mercantile trade-like agreements our brain dead and egoistic “leaders” have formulated; for the dubious assigning of their cronies to the oil companies as local partners and whatever bribes they are getting. Makes total judgement debts paid so far puny in comparison! But most Ghanaians seem to be totally oblivious to this fact! It is indeed pathetic to be “developing people”! So when are Ghanaians going to reach the mentality of developed people?

BTW, can someone locate the news article in which Betty Mould boasted of payments of judgement debts resulting from the NPP's actions as one of her achievements? She claimed she had saved the state many millions by re-negotiating such debts. That was last year, when she was still the A-G. And to think that Rawlings and the wife Konadu wanted such a woman to team up with Mills in 2008! Foisting two such disasters on us as President and the Vice! Wallahi!

Those of you close to Rawlings should tell him that he is screwed up and should stop trying to make decisional outputs on Ghana, as we don’t want any further disaster emanating from his judgement of persons, including that impostor Patrick Agboba he has been trying to impose on us Anlos as Awoamefia since 1999! Next time he should turn up in court to solidarise with him.

We all heaved a sigh of relief when my sister finally went on retirement from the A-G Dept. recently. We were counting the years, then the months and then the days! I know my even saying this small thing here will make her go into tantrums, she being the totally apolitical type who does not like to be drawn into anything political or controversial!

Andy C.Y. Kwawukume

cyandyk@ymail.com
Pelicles 9 years ago

Why baffled? Because there is no way NDC can put Woyome in jail and there are plenty of reasons to support that.

Who coined the phrase" Party financier"? If the ruling party can give that title to Woyome, why then can th ...
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Why baffled? Because there is no way NDC can put Woyome in jail and there are plenty of reasons to support that.

Who coined the phrase" Party financier"? If the ruling party can give that title to Woyome, why then can the same party put Woyome in jail? This is commonsense.

Right now, the party's founder himself has labeled the people in the party as "thieves" and what is more damaging than that?
gloria usa 9 years ago

how can ndc fix ECG dumsor good rds
health system if ndc continue to steal
huge sum of money like this sad day for ghana

how can ndc fix ECG dumsor good rds
health system if ndc continue to steal
huge sum of money like this sad day for ghana
ABK@GABON 9 years ago

Gloria just shut up your peak and continue with your ashawo job in the U S A leaking white man's yash you bloody bastard

Gloria just shut up your peak and continue with your ashawo job in the U S A leaking white man's yash you bloody bastard
Haile Mengistus Manasseh V11 9 years ago

Was NPP " baffled " when Dr Brobbey and Kwadwo Mpiani were acquitted and discharged over Ghana@50 Funds misappropriations?
Can some one there in the NPP answer me?

Was NPP " baffled " when Dr Brobbey and Kwadwo Mpiani were acquitted and discharged over Ghana@50 Funds misappropriations?
Can some one there in the NPP answer me?
charles 9 years ago

Surprising, shameful, disgraceful

Surprising, shameful, disgraceful
Dean 9 years ago

NDC Thieves squadron led by Mahama commander in thief.

NDC Thieves squadron led by Mahama commander in thief.
Nana Sompahene 9 years ago

How can a High Court reverse Supreme Court judgement? This is NDC Ghana

How can a High Court reverse Supreme Court judgement? This is NDC Ghana
HAWA YAKUBU 9 years ago

WHY IS YOUR MONKEY ASS SURPRISE?. DID KUFOUR SENT ANY NPP MENBER TO JAIL LIKE DOCTOR ANNANE.
BUT FOR THE FACTS I DO SUPPORT YOU VERY MUCH. THIS BASTARD SHOULD GO TO JAIL TO BE FOLLOWED BY THE SADA THIEFING BASTARDS

WHY IS YOUR MONKEY ASS SURPRISE?. DID KUFOUR SENT ANY NPP MENBER TO JAIL LIKE DOCTOR ANNANE.
BUT FOR THE FACTS I DO SUPPORT YOU VERY MUCH. THIS BASTARD SHOULD GO TO JAIL TO BE FOLLOWED BY THE SADA THIEFING BASTARDS
koki 9 years ago

The party ha sproof it is worth .

The party ha sproof it is worth .
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OBIBINI 9 years ago

You this B B C NEWS MAN i don't think your parents are alive. You let the politicians use u to insult elders.They will dump u and u will see your stupidness.

You this B B C NEWS MAN i don't think your parents are alive. You let the politicians use u to insult elders.They will dump u and u will see your stupidness.
OBIBINI 9 years ago

Ei,n d c wonders shall never end.Ghanaians we ask for it and we are seen it naked. 2016 will surely come.

Ei,n d c wonders shall never end.Ghanaians we ask for it and we are seen it naked. 2016 will surely come.
ISAAC OWUSU 9 years ago

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Ben Djangmah 9 years ago

God's time is best

God's time is best
john kuma 9 years ago

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Nana Addo 9 years ago

afoko. i am suprised u didn't make similar comments wen Jake criminally acquired a state bunglow after he spent millions of ghc to renovate it. why didn't u blame state prosecutors wen a judge cleared jake de gay.

afoko. i am suprised u didn't make similar comments wen Jake criminally acquired a state bunglow after he spent millions of ghc to renovate it. why didn't u blame state prosecutors wen a judge cleared jake de gay.
BERNARD 9 years ago

This judgement is not different from stealing bungalow from Ghanaians by Obetsebi Lamptey and his NPP gangsters.

This judgement is not different from stealing bungalow from Ghanaians by Obetsebi Lamptey and his NPP gangsters.
ghanian 9 years ago

He and his cohorts can run now ,but they can't hid.
Never on this planet.I told him to go and read the letter some sanetors wrote to Iran just last we.
Just to brief my fellow ghanaians a bit of it;THEY SENT A LETTER ...
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He and his cohorts can run now ,but they can't hid.
Never on this planet.I told him to go and read the letter some sanetors wrote to Iran just last we.
Just to brief my fellow ghanaians a bit of it;THEY SENT A LETTER TO IRAN TO WARN THEM THAT,THEY CAN NOW SIGN A DEAL THAT FAVERS THEM NOW WITH OBAMA WHO IS THEIR SYMPATHYSER IN THEIR PERSUIT OF NUCLEAR WEAPON ,BECAUSE HE A MOSLEM.
BUT THEY SHOULD REMEMBER THAT OBAMA WILL LEAVE OFFICE IN JUST 2017 JANUARY.
Just like this goverment in ghana now,they can protect you now for just a year and half,what about years to come when they are not in power anymore?
ghanaian 9 years ago

Am not surprised that he is set free, I wrote on this forum the day before the judgement that the judicial system we have in Ghana here will set him free, simply because he has attached himself to one political party or ano ...
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Am not surprised that he is set free, I wrote on this forum the day before the judgement that the judicial system we have in Ghana here will set him free, simply because he has attached himself to one political party or another.
If you can't do anything for your country by your own effort or hard earn money, do you have to steal from the country by fraudulent means?
ABK@GABON 9 years ago

Afoko you are idiot fool. Send mpianin the ugly monkey and wereko brobe the chimpanzees to prison first before talking about Woyome. You bastard

Afoko you are idiot fool. Send mpianin the ugly monkey and wereko brobe the chimpanzees to prison first before talking about Woyome. You bastard
Charles 9 years ago

The tribal npp group should give us a break. I am not the least happy for Woyome going scot free but the question is,Where were they when Kufour parked a court to give verdict against certain people in the NDC, after the judg ...
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The tribal npp group should give us a break. I am not the least happy for Woyome going scot free but the question is,Where were they when Kufour parked a court to give verdict against certain people in the NDC, after the judge has found them not guilty.Npp,please stop disturbing our ears.What you idiots have sown is what you are haversting. I am waiting to hear from that dirty smelling black Kufour.This is what Kufour and you people have brought into this country.And you want to come back again. For what? For your stupid mothers vaginas.Foolish people.
Loway 9 years ago

They are the once that course this problem

They are the once that course this problem
Joe-Tee 9 years ago

Good morals have been thrown to the dogs. I pity us. This platform has become insulting medium where insults are flying left and right, front and back then centre. God help us

Good morals have been thrown to the dogs. I pity us. This platform has become insulting medium where insults are flying left and right, front and back then centre. God help us
Amega 9 years ago

Interesting times we are in. The Supreme Court's decision that Woyome should refund the money is a civil case which requires comparatively less burden of proof; the High Court acquittal and discharge is a criminal case which ...
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Interesting times we are in. The Supreme Court's decision that Woyome should refund the money is a civil case which requires comparatively less burden of proof; the High Court acquittal and discharge is a criminal case which requires a comparatively large dose of evidence from the prosecution i.e. the Attorney-General. Let us not blame the Judge who freed Woyome; the A-G rather failed by not convincing the judge with evidence beyond reasonable doubt that Woyome acted with criminal intent. Nobody should be baffled by the judgement. Blame the lame duck Attorney-General who acted intentionally to lose the case in order to protect some 'faceless persons' like Betty Mould Iddrisu and Barton Oduro.
Kobby 9 years ago

The stupidity in this country is that we always want to make comparisons instead of facing the current issue head on. Politicians will always be set free if we don't stop this idiotic defense in the name of political affiliat ...
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The stupidity in this country is that we always want to make comparisons instead of facing the current issue head on. Politicians will always be set free if we don't stop this idiotic defense in the name of political affiliations
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Analyst 9 years ago

Many of the commentators are actually not looking at the bare facts of this criminal case. Woyome's money was duly processed and paid in accordance with a judgment he obtained from court of law. He did not collect the money b ...
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Many of the commentators are actually not looking at the bare facts of this criminal case. Woyome's money was duly processed and paid in accordance with a judgment he obtained from court of law. He did not collect the money by any false pretense at all. So clearly, a criminal case against him cannot stand even if Betty Mould and Barton-Oduro testified against him.
When the Supreme Court ruled that the money paid to him was illegal and must be refunded, this was based on the fact that the transaction with Waterville, a foreign company, was not ratified by parliament - any contract with a foreign by our laws must be ratified by parliament. The truth is that, the contracts with Waterville (which was later cancelled) and then the Chinese to build the stadiums for CAN 2008, were never ratified by parliament since they were done in a rush to meet the timelines of CAN 2008.
When Woyome went to court, his contention was that, the Government had unduly abrogated a contract they had signed with him and the court gave ruled in his favour.
Once we have chosen the path of democracy and rule of law we must educate ourselves to understand that, street arguments are not the same as courtroom arguments. On the street, you can shout at the top of your voice and say someone is a thief or a rogue thinking that you have reasons to do so. But inside the courtroom room, these so-called reasons may not stand.
The most important thing about the Woyome case is not about imprisoning him but he refunding the money. Fortunately, the Supreme Court judgment will ensure this.
fredie 9 years ago

Afoko and all that useless Npp gurus don't know anything about law they are just talking like shit coming out of thire ass.

Afoko and all that useless Npp gurus don't know anything about law they are just talking like shit coming out of thire ass.
GREAT POLITICAL THINKER 9 years ago

FOOLISH AYIGBE "THEIVES" ALL YOU KNOW IS STEALING. GOD PUNISH YOU AFOKO AND NDC CROOKS.

FOOLISH AYIGBE "THEIVES" ALL YOU KNOW IS STEALING. GOD PUNISH YOU AFOKO AND NDC CROOKS.

NPP “baffled” as Woyome escapes jail - Afoko

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