Franklin Cudjoe, founder and President of IMANI Africa, has described the actions of Attorney General Godfred Yeboah Dame in the ambulance case against Minority Leader Dr. Cassiel Ato Forson and two others as befitting an Attorney General prosecuting enemies of a communist establishment.
Franklin Cudjoe said ordinarily, the case should not have made it to the court because the third accused, Richard Jakpa, accepted to refund monies paid him for the supply of ambulances to the state.
Speaking on The Big Issue on Channel One TV, the IMANI president said the state and its apparatus spent unnecessary time on the case when there was nothing to prosecute.
“The state invested so much time and energy in trying to nail Ato Forson and the fallout played out so well that everybody then suspected that President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo and Ofori-Atta had a hand in the whole thing and that does not speak well for our governance at all.
“And it worried me that the Attorney General was being so persecutory instead of prosecutorial and that made me lose a lot of respect and regard for that high office because I was wondering whether he was interested in justice rather than just persecution.”
He further told the host, Selorm Adonoo that “he [Godfred Yeboah Dame] was acting as though he was an Attorney General for a communist establishment and so I was disturbed and not surprised that the Court of Appeal decided to acquit and discharge the accused.’”
The Court of Appeal acquitted and discharged Dr. Cassiel Ato Forson and businessman Richard Jakpa on Tuesday, July 30, setting aside an order for the former Deputy Finance Minister to open his defence by the trial judge in the ambulance case.
The Attorney General’s department indicated that the Court of Appeal’s ruling will be challenged.
Source: citinewsroom.com
