The counsel for Businessmen Alfred Agbesi Woyome, Ken Anku has asked the Supreme Court to give him more time to file his statement of case.
Alhaji Abdulai Yusif Fanash Muhammed, a resident of Hohoe Zongo in the Volta Region wants the Supreme Court’s decision asking Mr Woyome, a businessman, to return 51.2 million cedis to the state declared null and void.
The Hohoe Zongo resident filed a writ two weeks ago in which he argues the Supreme Court lacked jurisdiction to hear the case involving Mr. Woyome and to make the orders it made.
Mr Muhammed wants a “Declaration that the financial engineering claims by Alfred Agbesi Woyome arising out of the tender bid by Vamed Engineering GmbH/Waterville Holdings during the procurement process from June 2005 until its wrongful abrogation in August 2005 is not an international business transaction within the meaning of Article 181 of the Constitution, 1992.”
After the Supreme Court ruling, Mr Woyome promised to pay back to the state the 51.2 million cedis. The Court ruled the money was obtained fraudulently through a judgment debt.
Former Attorney General, Martin Amidu, says a suit challenging the Supreme Court’s ruling that ordered Alfred Woyome to return 51.2 million cedis to the state has no legal standing.
Mr Amidu, believes “commonsense should have warned the Plaintiff” that the Supreme Court has no jurisdiction to set aside the earlier ruling or review same.
The former Attorney General is the 3rd Defendant in the suit that also involves the current Attorney General, Marietta Brew-Oppong (1st Defendant), and Alfred Woyome (2nd Defendant).
The Sole Presiding Judge, Justice Yaw Apau adjourned the case to February, 4 for lawyer Anku to furnish the court with his statement of case.
