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The Woyome case: i am baffled.

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  • ADJOA WANGARA 9 years ago

    IDIOTS Andy C.Y. Kwawukume will only write a hypocrite nonsense just brag. Martin Amidu sued only Woyome simply because the gargantuan amount of 52 Million Cedis was paid to Alfred Agbesi Woyome ALONE. What is difficult to un ...
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  • Odoi 9 years ago

    Andy will defend any Ewe thief just like the Ewe chiefs in singlets wo came to Accra to defend their favorite son!

  • SARPONG 9 years ago

    Idiot Andy K, if you don't see the fraud, then maybe you have been blinded by your own bigotry blanket.

    The fraud lies in his conspiracy with the Ndc Attorney General Office not to go to court to defend Woyome fraudulent c ...
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  • C.Y. ANDY-K 9 years ago

    I have always maintained that I don't mind being called a fool and even an idiot in cyberspace or elsewhere so long as the person calling me so show me some wisdom, some intellect, some superior knowledge in telling what make ...
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  • SARPONG 9 years ago

    The other conspirators will be in court when Woyome start singing like a canary. As it is right now, Woyome might end up paying less than he defrauded the nation of since when he was paid this amount the cedi was exchanged at ...
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  • C.Y. ANDY-K 9 years ago

    It is at least heart warming to know that some of you have now realised that there were conspirators. But wait a moment!

    Who hatched the conspiracy, since you guys know much more about that than some of us watching from af ...
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  • Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law 9 years ago

    There is no case of fraud against Woyome, strictly speaking. The man went to court on what can best be termed as a very dubious claim. The court however agreed with him, and the government (the defendant) readily paid him the ...
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  • Akadu Mensema 9 years ago

    Lawyer SAS:
    When did Woyome go to court for the money? Tell us about the court and judge that adjudicated the case! Who was the trial judge?

  • ADJOA WANGARA 9 years ago

    Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law, "Kwasea" shut the fuck! you primitive Ewe!

    You are as MAD as Rawlings!

    Primitive Ewe fool!

  • SARPONG 9 years ago

    Hmmmm, SAS, what about it being a conspiratorial fraud between Woyome and the Ndc Attorney General Office to deliberately not to go to court?

    You are the lawyer but I think the Supreme Court got it right. The fact that he ...
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  • Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law 9 years ago

    The court can only rule on matters before it, and in this instance, the issue before it was neither conspiracy to commit fraud nor deception by false pretenses. If these were the issues, the court would have so said, and brou ...
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  • STONER KOBYLYNTON 9 years ago

    Dr. Sas, so in your legal opinion, do you conclude that Mr Woyome should go free with the money and rather hold those inept officials responsible for causing financial damage to the state? Can you come with any citation to su ...
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  • Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law 9 years ago

    In my opinion, Woyome should go scot free because I cannot think of any cause of action under which he can be culpable. It is true that he brought a fake case against the government, but the government pleaded guilty and paid ...
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  • STONER KOBYLYNTON 9 years ago

    Dr. Sas, I am appalled with your opinion on this issue and moreover you failed to answer my question. Again do you consider Mr. Woyome not to pay the money back to the state because some officials failed to do their work and ...
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  • Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law 9 years ago

    I am not in the emotional business here. You asked me a legal case which I answered; why should I be the one citing case law?
    If you have a contrary opinion, argue your case with reference to any case law. Remember that it m ...
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  • ADJOA WANGARA 9 years ago

    YOUR EWE MOTHER AND FATHER WILL GO FREE TO BACK TO TOGO! "KWASEA"

  • SARPONG 9 years ago

    Adjoa, please there is no need for insult here. Dr SAS is strictly going with what the law stipulates and we might not agree with him but he is teaching us something worth learning. He has his law blinkers on which is what as ...
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  • KKO 9 years ago

    Dr SAS,
    As a layman, I agree with the points you have raised. The real rogues of this matter are the people at the AG's Department, the Late President Atta Mills and the current Vice President who was the Governor of the Cen ...
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  • Kofi Ata, Cambridge, UK 9 years ago

    Dr SAS, I do not share your position that Woyome should go free simply because he went through due process to obtain the fraudulent judgement debt payments. Simply because it has now been detected that he defrauded the state. ...
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  • Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law 9 years ago

    You still did not show why Woyome should be punished. Woyome was awarded his claim by a court of competent jurisdiction which should have examined whether the claim has merit. It did not. The government side agreed with the j ...
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  • Kofi Ata, Cambridge, UK 9 years ago

    Dr SAS I did say in my first paragraph that he obtained the judgement debt verdict and payments by fraud. Is that not a reason for prosecution and recovery of the money he is not entitled to? For the avoidance of any doubt, ...
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  • Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law 9 years ago

    It is trite law that if you participate in and sign on to a settlement agreement with your Cyclopean eyes open, you cannot turn around and appeal against the agreement, notwithstanding your state of awareness. The policy rea ...
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  • Kwadwo 9 years ago

    Are you aware that you cannot file a false claim in either federal or State Courts in the US and get away get away with it if you you are caught? In most cases, the petitioner affirms under oath that what is stated in the co ...
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  • Kwadwo 9 years ago

    Correction.

  • Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law 9 years ago

    You are assuming facts not in evidence.....
    No court has made any finding that Woyome filed a false claim. Rather a high court agreed that his case has merit and awarded a judgment for him. You cannot retroactively claim tha ...
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  • kwadwo. 9 years ago

    Where did the trial Judge make a finding that Woyome has a meritorious claim? The AG's office failed to defend the claim and Womens Simply Obtained Default Judgment. They settled the case a day he was paid the whole amount ev ...
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  • C.Y. ANDY-K 9 years ago

    Kofi,

    I wrote in capital letters that I wasn't confused any longer. Of course, I wasn't confused about the case when I first wrote that in 2012. When I wrote then that I was confused or baffled now, it is actually about ho ...
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  • SARPONG 9 years ago

    But Dr SAS, if you are accused of rape and for whatever reason you agree and goes to jail and later found not to be true, they set you free and we have been seeing that in USA especially in rape and murder cases through the I ...
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  • Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law 9 years ago

    Your analogy should be akin to the one I previously made: somebody claims you owe him money, and your lawyer agrees with him and pays him with your money. Who do you hold accountable? Your lawyer of course!
    If you disagree, ...
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  • SARPONG 9 years ago

    Exactly. Civil and criminal cases are different. The supreme court case is civil and Woyome is found not to deserve the money and he is being asked to refund the money.

    He is still on trial at the high court for fraudulent ...
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  • Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law 9 years ago

    It is all about civil procedure; if you stick to the analogy I presented, you will see that the defendant acquiesced in the judgment and did not question it. An individual cannot just get up and appeal the case in the Supreme ...
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  • Asante Fordjour 9 years ago

    Hi Learned Attorney,

    I'm interested in your briefs which I wish to join. But before I could argue on the question of whether or not Woyome intended indeed to defraud the State in the case under consideration, could you res ...
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  • Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law 9 years ago

    1. Fake insofar as there was no contract between Woyome and the government, a fact the man himself agreed. The fact that Woyome brought a breach of contract claim against the government when there was no contract makes his cl ...
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  • Asante Fordjour 9 years ago

    Thanks for the explanation. I understand the premise of your argument and wish not to press further. Because the prosecution still has the burden to establish the criminal intent against the defendant- and here, Mr Woyome.

  • Mr. Figure-Out 9 years ago

    Stop making mockery of yourselves. Even prof Mills in his own wisdom found out that something was wrong with the Woyome payments and instructed the very people who negotiated for it to happen to go back to court and retrieve ...
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  • ANCIENT MAN 9 years ago

    THAT "THERE IS NO CASE OF FRAUD AGAINST WOYOME, STRICTLY SPEAKING". (1) AMIDU WENT TO COURT AGAINST WOYOME BECAUSE THE CONSTITUTION GAVE-AND STILL GIVES -HIM THAT RIGHT;(2)HE PURSUED THE CASE AS A PUBLIC INTEREST ACTION (3) A ...
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  • Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law 9 years ago

    You mean well, but I don't see where you are going. The court gave Woyome the judgment on an unmeritorious claim without establishing any fraud against him. How can we retrospectively charge him with fraud on a matter for whi ...
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  • SARPONG 9 years ago

    Dr SAS, I can see your point here. Maybe we cannot pursue a criminal case of fraud against by arguing that Woyome at the time of making a claim for the money believed that the letter of recommendation he obtained from one of ...
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  • ANCIENT MAN 9 years ago

    BECAUSE THE SUPREME COURT CASE WAS FILED BY AMIDU IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST,AND ALSO AS A COURT OF "FINAL JURISDICTION" TO CLEAR ALL DOUBTS ONCE AND FOR AL.

  • Kwadwo 9 years ago

    Buddy, don't let SAS of the hook so easily. He is wrongly arguing that Woyome walks because he used the legal process to obtain a settlement or consent judgment. That is a crack of shit. Let him file a fraudulent claim in Co ...
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  • ANCIENT MAN 9 years ago

    YOU SEEM TO FOCUS ON THE SHADOW OF THE CASE(THE CIRCUMSTANTIAL ISSUES) RATHER THAN THE SUBSTANTIVE POINT: WAS FRAUD COMMITTED ?YES,BY LEGAL DEFINITION OF "FRAUD". BY WHOM?=THE DEFENDANT AND PERSONS KNOWN OR UNKNOWN;WHY WOYOME ...
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  • SARPONG 9 years ago

    I thought the word "INNOCENCE " does not exist in the lexicon of law but rather "NOT GUILTY "

    I have not read any judgement that reads he or she is innocent but rather not guilty which means the person might have done what ...
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  • Theo 9 years ago

    Sarpong, are you a lawyer? As a layman, I find your understanding of the law amazing.

  • Denis 9 years ago

    You are atypical example of a little learning is a dangerous thing.What rubbish is that you are spewing.

  • C.Y. ANDY-K 9 years ago

    Dr SAS,

    I can see that you are embroiled in the mess, doing your best to unravel the puzzle to the simple minds and layman who thrive on emotions.

    I didn't read where my views on this Woyome case is different from your ...
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  • Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law 9 years ago

    1. Payment to the Chief Attorney's wife cannot be rationalized as proper. The law does not separate a man and his wife under the circumstances, and that payment is a thinly veiled kickback.

    2. Your ardent support for the S ...
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  • C.Y. ANDY-K 9 years ago

    I see.

    1. I guess you didn't notice that I was being cynical about that payment, not supporting its dubious payment, an outright bribe. I even went on to explain the unwholesome practice in the system whereby both plaintif ...
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  • James Bamfo 9 years ago

    Andy-K is a hooligan who needs to be dissected before he feels whole. Please, be a frequent user of condoms, okay; we don't need another "you" here to always exhibit your stupidity.

  • C.Y. ANDY-K 9 years ago

    You are a mindless buffoon. Is this all that you can contribute to the issues raised?

    Andy-K

  • BB 9 years ago

    Woyome shared all the lotts amond the NDC and Ewe crooks

  • C.Y. ANDY-K 9 years ago

    What does a pinhead like you also know and you want to comment on something even legal brains and highly educated people are struggling with?

    Tweah!

    Andy-K

  • Peter Dogbe 9 years ago

    Let Woyome show the world a copy of whatever "contract" he claims he had with the NPP govt!!!!!!