Speaking in an account with TV3 on Wednesday, July 31, 2024, the Tamale North administrator told the Attorney General to stop commenting on the case because he and his appointment accept been absolutely disgraced.
He added that the judgement of the cloister and the issues surrounding it all point to the actuality that Godfred Dame was persecuting Ato Forson for political gains.
"This case has not aloof been absent but his candor has additionally been absent and if I were in his shoes, I would be speaking actual little at this moment because he has not alone ashamed himself but he has ashamed the appointment of the Attorney General.
"It was a case that shouldn’t accept happened. It is a archetypal archetype of political persecution. Even afore we heard what was independent in the leaked tape, best Ghanaians knew this was a witch coursing and a archetypal case of political persecution," he said.
Background:
On Tuesday, the Cloister of Appeal, in a 2-1 decision, acquitted and absolved Dr. and Richard Jakpa in the ambulance case.
The cardinal chaotic a balloon cloister adjustment acute them to present their aegis for allegedly causing a banking accident of €2.37 actor to the accompaniment in accretion ambulances for the government.
While Justice Alex Poku Acheampong dissented, Justices Kweku Tawiah Ackah-Boafo and Philip Bright Mensah disqualified in favour of the accused.
Following the ruling, AG Godfred Dame issued a account criticising the accommodation as abnormal and adverse to the abundant affirmation presented by the prosecution.
He argued that the accommodation undermines accessible accountability and the aphorism of law.
“On 30th July 2024, the Cloister of Address by a breach 2–1 decision, accustomed an address adjoin the cardinal of the High Court, Accra anachronous 30th March 2023, absolution a acquiescence of no case filed by the accused bodies and acclimation them to accessible their defence.
“The Appointment of the Attorney-General considers the accommodation of the Cloister of Address to be abnormal in the adventure for accessible accountability and the aphorism of law. The accommodation acutely is heavily adjoin the weight of the cogent affirmation led by the case in analysis of all the accuse adjoin the accused bodies at the trial,” allotment of the account reads.
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