NPP Northampton Chapter answers Nana Ato Dadzie.

The attention of the above named chapter of the NPP has repeatedly been drawn to pronouncements by Nana Ato Dadzie, lawyer for Mrs Betty Mould-Iddrisu, former Attorney general of the Republic of Ghana under whose sleeping/conniving eyes the nation lost such a GARGANTUAN amount of money to businessman and NDC financier, Mr Alfred Agbesi Woyome.

Nana Ato Dadzie in reacting to Hon. Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, sees a mere call, ( NOT AN ORDER) that,

".Betty Mould-lddrisu who ordered payment. Not only did she order but she did even supervise payment to Woyome".

by the minority leader to the police to equally arrest Mrs Betty for questioning as she stands seriously indicted by the EOCO report, upon which the same police are questioning former ministers of state in the Kuffuor regime, as

“not only false but palpably scandalous and defamatory intended to bring our client into public ridicule”.

One wonders whether he has read the substance of the EOCO report, particularly on his client’s involvement in the whole financial engineering processes that led to her failing to defend the interest of the state?, her pleadings/writings to the finance minister to pay?, while at the same time being of a self-imposed “mistaken belief that the state had no case”?, a situation that made her more of an adviser to Woyome on how to win the money than as an Attorney general employed by the state based on her legal expertise to fight crimes BOTH WITHIN AND OUTSIDE her party on behalf of the republic.

We find Nana Ato’s argument very lame, boring and belittling of the intelligence of Ghanaians if not his own, in that, Mrs Betty Mould, a seasoned lawyer who was not too long ago the head of legal desk at the Commonwealth Secretariat in London, sits in her official capacity as Attorney general with Woyome who had no claim at all against our nation, works out the said claim, offers legal pleadings on the claimant’s behalf against the state to the finance minister and through deliberate lack of due diligence, allows for the winning of such a false claim by NOT DEFENDING THE REPUBLIC WHEN WE HAD THE CHANCE TO STOP PAYMENT, BECAUSE SHE SINGULARLY, WAS OF A MISTAKEN BELIEF THAT THE STATE HAD NO DEFENCE, a “MISTAKEN BELIEF” why a default judgment was entered into on behalf of Woyome in the first place by the courts, would now be telling Ghanaians through her lawyer, Nana Ato Dadzie that, HEAR HIM;

“Our client states that she neither authorized payments nor was she at post as Atorney General when subsequent payments were made to Mr Woyome.

The only payment made by the State to Mr Woyome during her tenure as Attorney General was made pursuant to a High Court Order dated 7th September 2010”.

‘Anokwasem’, can some good persons around both lawyer and client ask them some corporate governance questions that;

1) Having shamelessly failed to defend the state due to her deliberate MISTAKEN belief, is she not negligent?, a negligence that has caused the state such a huge financial loss?.

2) Just because all she did was to work hard and advise/plead hard for the payment which she succeeded in doing contrary to her official role as adviser to Ghana and NOT WOYOME, and documents available in her very office to challenge Woyome and indeed overseeing the first instalment of that payment, which a former Chief of Staff and a lawyer of the calibre of Nana Ato Dadzie does not question or see anything wrong with, but is brave to tout in defence of his “distressed” client, Ghanaians should exonerate her?.

3) Having set such a criminally achieved default win in motion, she can now be exonerated ONLY because she was subsequently removed to another ministry albeit too late?. Somebody tell her lawyer that, BUT FOR THE DIVISION INTO THREE INSTALMENTS, Mrs Betty Mould-Iddrisu would have BEEN THE ONE WHO PAID THE total amount before being removed.

4) Finally, does she not see her self facing prison on charges of having caused financial loss to the state?.

Mrs Betty Mould’s new evidence found in her very office argument is to say the least shameless, haba!!. All Ghana knows except herself and now Nana Ato Dadzie, that those were all the while on the files in that office, this WILFUL BLINDNESS is not a defence and they both know this as lawyers.

Mrs Betty Mould’s exoneration is definitely only in YOUR DREAMS, Nana Ato Dadzie.

KORSHIE QUASHIGAH. NPP NORTHAMPTON, UK.