Ellen Ama Daaku a member of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) communication team has stated that Attorney General Dr Dominic Ayine has put on his National Democratic Congress attire.
According to Ellen Ama Daaku, the Attorney General at the end of his four-year tenure would destroy the reputation he has built over the years with politics.
She noted that Dominic Ayine cannot tell Ghanaians he has dropped the criminal prosecution of known NDC members so they can go and enjoy the funds they embezzled.
Speaking in an interview on Wontumi Radio, Ellen Ama Daaku stated, “Dr Ayine cannot tell me a law student who wants to become like him—that since he became the Attorney General and knowing how the law works, he has decided that a total of 52 persons who have embezzled over $3.7 billion of state funds can go home free by discontinuing the criminal cases against them in court.
He did that because these are known NDC members. He then decides to haul Kwabena Adu Boahene, who has allegedly embezzled $7 million, to court. Can you imagine?”
Ellen Ama Daaku added, “Dr. Ayine has dropped the cloak of an astute and fair-minded lawyer that we have known him to be in the past and has put on his NDC attire. You can’t tell me that you have dropped the criminal prosecution of these known NDC members so they can go and enjoy the funds they embezzled.
Dr Ayine has started on the wrong footing. At the end of his four-year tenure, he would have destroyed the reputation he has built over the years with politics. He will go down as one of the worst Attorney Generals in Ghana’s history.”
Her comments come after the AG dropped numerous high-profile cases involving NDC officials.
The seven discontinued cases include that of the former Deputy Governor of the Bank of Ghana, now acting Governor, Johnson Asiama. The Attorney-General withdrew all charges against him after he was implicated in the collapse of UniBank and UT Bank.
The AG also dropped the case brought against former Minority Leader and now Finance Minister Ato Forson and Richard Jakpa in the ambulance procurement deal.
The long-standing trial involving former COCOBOD CEO Dr Stephen Kwabena Opuni and businessman Seidu Agongo was also dropped after they were accused of causing GH¢271 million in financial loss through the Lithovit foliar fertiliser scandal.
The Attorney-General also withdrew charges against former SSNIT boss Dr Ernest Thompson and three others accused of financial mismanagement but noted that in the case of SSNIT and the banking sector case, some persons were still standing trial.
Former Works and Housing Minister Collins Dauda and four others had their financial misconduct case in the Saglemi Housing project also dismissed through a nolle prosequi.
Activists Oliver Barker-Vormawor, Ama Governor, and others had their cases dropped, reigniting debates on protest rights and political suppression, whereas former NDC Chairman Samuel Ofosu Ampofo and Communications Officer Anthony Kwaku Boahen were freed from charges related to a leaked recording allegedly plotting political violence.
The Attorney General on 24 March fingered the former Director-General of the National Signals Bureau (NSB) Kwabena Adu-Boahene for allegedly diverting over $7m into private accounts.
According to the Attorney General, Kwabena Adu-Boahene was arrested for financial misconduct relating to a $7 million cyber defence system contract.
The Attorney General further revealed Kwabena Adu-Boahene laundered state funds through real estate investments in Accra and abroad.
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