Godfred Dame was accused of causing banking accident to the accompaniment afterwards the Court of Appeal threw out his case adjoin the Minority Leader, Dr. , because one of the parties in the balloon offered to pay the accompaniment €2 billion for the case to be dropped.
Godfred Dame answerable Dr. Ato Forson and agent Richard Jakpa of causing banking accident to the accompaniment in the accretion of 200 ambulances during the government of John Dramani Mahama. Big Sea, the aggregation that supplied the ambulances, offered to pay the government of Ghana €2 billion so that the case would be dropped, but this was alone by Dame.
Speaking in an account on Asempa FM on July 31, 2024, the Attorney General explained that he could not acquire Big Sea's action because it was not one of the plaintiffs in the case, and he would not be able to authority them answerable if they bootless to pay the €2 billion afterwards the case was dropped.
"The plea-bargaining angle fabricated it bright that the case was not barmy and that the accused bodies themselves were anxious about the case. The plea-bargaining angle was fabricated by the third accused (Richard Jakpa), and after on, the aboriginal accused wrote a letter adage that he had no argument to the plea-bargaining and all that.
"But I'm adage that if I accustomed the appeal arrangement in the address it came, Ghanaians would say that I accept gone for money and so on. The action was that the aggregation that was not a affair to the case, Big Sea, was activity to be the one that was activity to pay the money, and that the case would be concluded - I should bandy in the anhydrate and end the prosecution. So acutely there was no absolute action from the accused persons, there was additionally no a absolute (sic) of liability, and they were ambuscade abaft the Big Sea aggregation in Dubai, which is not a affair to affairs in Ghana," he said.
He added, "If I had accustomed this, I am abiding you would be analytic my integrity, and if after Big Sea had defaulted, how would the accused bodies be captivated responsible? If Big Sea did not pay, how would I absolve it to the bodies of Ghana?"
The Attorney General added declared that alike admitting the accused bodies were absorbed in the angle by Big Sea, it was added of a allurement for him.
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