FULL TEXT: Here’s why the court dismissed Ato Forson and Richard Jakpa’s applications
An Accra High Court on Thursday, June 6, 2024, dismissed five applications filed by accused persons in the ongoing ambulance case.
The accused persons, Dr Cassiel Ato Forson, a former Deputy Finance Minister, and Richard Jakpa, a businessman, are on trial for causing the state a €2.3 million loss.
They are facing 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.
Dr. Ato Forson and his co-accused, Richard Jakpa, had alleged professional and prosecutorial misconduct by Attorney-General Godfred Dame, citing a tape in which Dame and Jakpa purportedly discussed matters before the courts.
However, the judge, Justice Afia Serwah Asare-Botwe found no statutory basis to declare a mistrial or to investigate the Attorney-General’s conduct.
The court declined jurisdiction to order an inquiry into the Attorney-General’s conduct, directing Dr Ato Forson to seek redress from the General Legal Council if he wished to pursue the matter further.
Read details of the full ruling below.