Woyome cash: I will put my best foot forward – Gloria Akuffo

Attorney General and Minister of Justice
nominee Gloria Akuffo has said she will take a
second look at the controversial GHS51million
paid to businessman Alfred Agbesi Woyome
and do what is best for the country by
recovering the money for the state.
The Supreme Court has ordered Mr Woyome to
refund GHS51.2 million to the state.
According to the court, Mr Woyome got the
money out of an invalid contract between the
state and Waterville Holdings Limited in 2006
for the construction of stadia for CAN 2008.
However, the erstwhile National Democratic
Congress (NDC) government failed to retrieve
the amount from the businessman before
leaving office.
Gloria Akuffo told the Appointments
Committee when she appeared before it on
Saturday January 21 that if given the nod to
be Attorney General, she would do her best to
recover the money for the state.

“As I understand it, judgment has been
entered for the refund of the money. Efforts to
recover the money have been inundated with
many applications. My understanding is that
the execution process has been soiled with all
these processes.
I will go to office and look [but] that is why I
said at the beginning that I cannot make a
categorical undertaking that if you give me
approval tomorrow, I can recover the money
because this is a matter which is subject to
litigation.
I can only say that when I get there I’ll study
the file and see how quickly we can recover
the money,” she stated.
“I will put my best foot forward and that when
I get to that office I will look at the matter
and do what is best in the circumstances.”