Attorney-General and Minister of Justice Godfred Yeboah Dame has spoken for the first time several days after the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) released the controversial audio that captures him and Richard Jakpa, the third accused person in the ambulance purchase trial.
Speaking to the media after Tuesday’s hearing, Mr Dame stated that despite the traps being set against him by his adversaries, he is confident he will surmount every hurdle.
“All I can say is that the Lord does not delight in the pleasure of the wicked. Even though they have laid traps for me, I will flee from them. And righteousness will always prevail over evil,” he said.
The Attorney-General has been accused of coercing the third accused, Richard Jakpa, to implicate Minority Leader Dr Cassiel Ato Forson, also an accused person, in the ongoing ambulance trial.
At a press conference, the NDC played a 16-minute audio of a conversation between the A-G and Richard Jakpa to prove their assertions.
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However, the New Patriotic Party (NPP) insists that the tape has been doctored. The party stressed that the A-G also never requested the witness to falsify, fabricate or concoct any evidence or testify in the prosecution’s favour.
Ato Forson’s lawyers have since filed an application for an order to inquire into the A-G’s conduct, while Richard Jakpa has filed for the charges against him to be dropped.
Dr Ato Forson, a former Deputy Finance Minister, has pleaded not guilty to causing a €2.3 million loss to the state in the ambulance deal.
He is on trial with two others — Sylvester Anemana, a former Chief Director at the Ministry of Health and Richard Jakpa, a businessman, who have also pleaded not guilty.
The state has, however, discontinued the case against Sylvester Anemana.
The accused persons are to answer to five counts of wilfully causing financial loss to the state, abetment to wilfully causing financial loss to the state, contravention of the Public Procurement Act, and intentionally misapplying public property.