Sole Commissioner calls for support from AGs office

Justice Yaw Appau, Sole Commissioner at the Judgment Debt, has called on the Attorney General’s (AG) Department to support the Commission with the number of cases against the State by African Automobile Limited.

This was after Madam Dorothy Afriyie Ansah, the Chief State Attorney had told the Commission that the African Automobile Limited has 11 different cases against the state, contrary to the two cases the Commission was aware of.

Madam Afriyie Ansah who appeared before the Commission on Monday promised to get the documents and was given August 12, to re-appear.

Mrs Seyywoe Kwakuvi-Zagbedeh, a legal representative of the Registrar General’s Department, also appeared before the Commission in respect of the returns filed by the African Automobile in 2010 and 2011.

She explained that, the Registrar General’s Department has no trace of any document indicating that the African Automobile Limited had filed its returns for the years in question, including other previous years.

She said the Registrar General is migrating onto an electronic platform and is doing re-registration of all companies but the African Automobile is yet to comply.

She said the Registrar General would, however, be able to capture details of African Automobile if it complies with the new directive by doing the re-registration.

Madam Afriyie Ansah also produced documents in respect of compensation paid in the matter of the Volta River Authority Wusuta Resettlement and farmland which was labelled as judgement debt.

She disclosed that the AG’s department has no record of that case.

The Commission however concluded that the said resettlement issue was not judgement debt but compensation paid to the beneficiaries without any litigation, as the Lands Commission had also indicated that it has no documents over the matter.

In the matter between Kwasi Adjei and two others against the Attorney General, Madam Afriyie Ansah promised to furnish the Commission with the documents at a later date as the case was handled by the Sunyani office, in the Brong Ahafo Region.