Ghc51m saga: Betty contested NDC position to seek protection

Former Attorney General Betty Mould-Iddrisu contested for a leadership slot within the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) so as to seek protection from prosecution and criticism as far as the illegal payment of a Ghc51.2-million judgment debt to businessman Alfred Agbesi Woyome is concerned, the head of the political science department of KNUST Dr Richard Amoako Baah has told Morning Starr’s Kafui Dey on Starr 103.5FM.

The money was paid during Mrs Mould-Iddrisu’s era as Attorney General and Minister of Justice following a default judgment given by an Accra High Court in favour of Mr Woyome, who filed a suit against the State over what he described as an illegal termination of a contract he had with the Government.

Critics of Mrs Mould-Iddrisu, who is now the first Vice Chairperson of the NDC, have imputed that Mrs Mould-Iddrisu took a bribe from Mr Woyome and so directed the finance ministry at the time to pay the money in full rather than in three tranches as ordered by the Court.

Mrs Mould-Iddrisu recently denied ever taking a bribe from Mr Woyome when she spoke on Starr FM.

“If you know me, you will know that as Attorney General, there is nobody who can sit in front of me and dare ever talk about: ‘Oh Betty if you do this I would give a thousand’...there is no court in Ghana that will ever and Alfred Woyome can never say about me that I gave Betty one Ghana Cedi. That is the bottom-line.”

Mr Woyome was recently acquitted and discharged by another Court over two criminal charges – causing financial loss to the state and defrauding by false pretences.

According to Dr Amoako Baah, Mrs Mould-Iddrisu contested for a position in the NDC for protection.