Alfred Agbesi Woyome
The much-anticipated oral examination of Alfred Agbesi Woyome, embattled National Democratic Congress (NDC) businessman and financier, by the Attorney General (AG), could not come off yesterday.
This is because the sole judge presiding over the case at the Supreme Court was indisposed, DAILY GUIDE has gathered.
The Attorney General was expected to resume oral examination of the NDC financier over the GH¢51.2 million he fraudulently collected from the state.
Mr. Woyome and his lawyer were also nowhere near the court, signaling that they might have been pre-informed that the judge was indisposed.
The oral examination has been rescheduled for October 10, 2017.
In July, this year the Deputy Attorney General, Godfred Yeboah Dame, began an inquiry into the sources of income and assets of Mr Woyome in order to recover the fraudulent judgement debt he collected from the state.
At the last hearing of the case, which lasted for almost two hours, Mr. Woyome argued that it was an error for the Attorney General to haul him before the Supreme Court.
He said there was already a payment plan between him and the AG and wondered why he was before the apex court for grilling.
He also prayed the Supreme Court to stay proceedings on the oral examination since he had filed for a review of the case.
Mr. Woyome indicated that since 2012 he had not been in business, claiming that he had lost all his businesses after his arrest in 2011 and subsequent trial, indicating that he spent all his time in court to the detriment of his businesses.
In an answer to a question on Anator Holding Company Limited, Mr Agbesi Woyome said he is a shareholder of the company, although he could not remember his percentage share.
Touching on his possible landed properties in the country, the deputy AG was sure that the Abelemkpe and Kokomlemle houses belong to him (Woyome).
Woyome averred, “I own the Kokomlemle house together with my family; you cannot say that for the Abelemkpe house.”
He insisted that the Abelemkpe house belongs to his brother in America.
“It’s a house owned by my junior brother in America who made it available for the use of the family for a year now,” he asserted.
Mr. Yeboah Dame, as a result, urged Justice Benin to compel Woyome to produce the documents on the said house pursuant to Order 46 Rule 1 of the High Court Civil Procedures CI 47.
By Gibril Abdul Razak