Woyome Saga: High Court ruling

From day one this whole thing was not well packaged and it was not well packaged because it was intended not to be well packaged. It is politics; dubious politics,” says the Editor-In-Chief of the New Crusading Guide newspaper, Abdul Malik Kweku Baako.

Mr. Baako was speaking to the recent acquittal and discharge of all the accusations leveled against businessman Alfred Agbesi Woyome.

High Court judge, Justice Ajet-Nassam acquitted and discharged the NDC financier on all counts of willfully causing financial loss to the state and defrauding by false pretense.

He said in his ruling that the prosecution was not thorough in its case and wondered why key actors in the scandal, including former Attorney General Betty Mould Iddrisu, and her Deputy Ebo Barton Oduro were not made to testify in the case.

He said the prosecution failed to prove its case against the suspect and therefore he had no choice than to allow the accused to walk.

But speaking to this during a panel discussion on PEACE FM's morning show ‘Kokrokoo’, Kweku Baako said the judges’ ruling did not make sense and supported the Attorney General’s decision to appeal.

“There were points made the judge that did not make sense…I can tell you if you look at the evidence presented before the judge, no matter the sloppiness, the judgment should not have gone in favour of (Woyome)…The judgment itself is suspect and that is why I am for the appeal; that is what is making me sad as a Ghanaian. I have not attacked the judiciary but attacking a particular judgment,” he said.