Godfred Dame the former Attorney-General has said 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.
He added that the press conference held by Attorney-General Dr Dominic Ayine was a knee-jerk reaction aimed as squashing public condemnation.
According to Godfred Dame, the Mahama administration is attempting to whitewash the crimes of former appointees by discontinuing cases against them.
Speaking at a press conference on February 14, 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.
Godfred Dame added, “I am, however, reassured by the fact that Ghanaians are discerning enough to discover the illegitimate motives for the discontinuance of the cases in question,”
“These developments irresistibly point to only one conclusion, a calculated preconceived ploy on the part of the NDC to wipe out all criminal cases pending against its leading members and officials in the John Mahama government, declare them of wrongdoing, not by the court, but through their Attorney General”, he boldly claimed.
Godfred Dame reiterated, “I find, generally, that all his explanations are laden with contradictions and inconsistencies and betray the questionable motives for his actions.”
