Godfred Yeboah Dame a former Attorney General and Minister of Justice has revealed it is scary and bizarre AG Dr Dominic Ayine is discontinuing criminal cases without consulting President John Dramani Mahama.
According to Godfred Dame, the decision is alarming and detrimental to the interests of the republic.
He noted that Ghanaians should be scared if the AG primary consideration in the discontinuation of criminal cases involving the loss of billions of Ghana cedis.
Speaking at a press conference on February 14, the former Justice Minister stated, “The people of Ghana should be very scared if we have an AG whose primary consideration in the discontinuation of criminal cases involving the loss of billions of Ghana cedis is the position of defence lawyers on charges preferred against their clients rather than the interest of the republic in the prosecution of crime.
“Even more scary and bizarre is the claim of Dr Ayine that he did not consult President John Dramani Mahama before taking the monumental decisions to discontinue the criminal cases.”
“The cases involve the loss of colossal sums of taxpayers’ monies, and some relate to the banking sector crisis which affected the Ghanaian economy,” he added.
Godfred Dame added that President John Mahama through the Attorney General Dominic Ayine has become a clearing agent.
The former AG noted that remarkably, there’s no precedent for this kind of conduct in the fourth republic by discontinue many cases.
The former Justice Minister stated, “I deem the press conference hurriedly assembled by the Attorney-General, Dr Dominic Ayine, as a knee-jerk reaction to genuine concerns raised by well-meaning Ghanaians on the attempt by the NDC government to whitewash the crimes of persons who served in the NDC government,”
“The President, through his Attorney-General, has in a spectacular fashion, become the clearing agent to indemnify their allies who have duly been put before the courts for commission of crimes”, he added.
