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Nana Addo accused of causing financial loss to the state
Dr Omane Boamah accused Nana Addo of conniving with Great Cape Company Limited.
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At the meet the press series in Accra on Monday, Dr Omane Boamah accused Nana Addo of conniving with Great Cape Company Limited.
Dr Omane Boamah said, the company’s attempt to dupe the state was made known out of a "dispute between Ghana National Petroleum Agency and Great Cape Company Limited."
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He noted that "In 1978, the former contracted the latter to supply 200,000 tonnes of cement. Along the line, the contract was abrogated and full and final settlement paid according to a letter written by then-Finance Minister Mr Richard Kwame Peprah, and you find this in the judgment. Shockingly, the Great Cape Company Limited brought a frivolous application to hoodwink the state and the taxpayer. Unfortunately, Nana Akufo-Addo came to their aid.
"On 3rd October, 2011, three years after leaving office [as Attorney General] Nana Akufo-Addo wrote a letter to support the Great Cape Company in furtherance of its illegitimate claims on government and the taxpayer. He wrote: ‘It is disconcerting to find that public record keeping has fallen into such straits that the files on this matter cannot be found either in the Ministry of Justice or in the Ministry of Finance. Be that as it may, it will be unconscionable on the part of government if its poor record keeping is used to defeat legitimate claims of its creditors.’ The letter is available [but] Nana was certainly wrong. Great Cape Company did not have any legitimate claim to make. Great Cape Company Limited, on the contrary, was trying to hoodwink the state and the taxpayer and he unfortunately and incompetently fell for it."
According to him, "On 21 October 2016, just about a month ago in the judgment delivered by his Lordship Eric Kyei Bafour on this matter ably defended by Attorney General Marietta Brew Appiah-Oppong, His Lordship concludes: ‘On the whole, the plaintiff, who bore the burden of proof at the end of the trial, his claim remained unproved and unimpressive while the evidence of the defendants showed plaintiff had attempted to hoodwink them to make a further payment. In conclusion, plaintiff’s claim is dismissed in its entirety.
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"I will exercise my discretion and award cost of GHS 50,000 in favour of the defendant.’ The judge says the plaintiff was trying to hoodwink the state. A former Attorney General, three years after leaving office, was writing in support of Great Cape Company that was trying to hoodwink the state."
Dr Boamah however asked, "How on earth did Nana Akufo-Addo, a former Attorney General and a member of the Ghana Bar Association, write to support the Great Cape Company Limited to hoodwink the state and the taxpayer?"
But Communications Director of the NPP, Nana Akomea however, denied claims by Omane Boamah. He said Nana Addo was not the Attorney General who paid Great Cape the judgment debt,.
He added that the NDC’s Dr Yaw Obed Asamoah, who was the Attorney General at the time gave the green light to government to pay the Great Cape company.
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