By The National Chairman of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Johnson Asiedu Nketia, has asserted that the Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, Godfred Yeboah Dame, prioritizes incarceration over justice.
He alleged that the Attorney-General engaged in professional misconduct regarding the ongoing trial involving the Minority Leader, Dr. Cassiel Ato Forson, and two others concerning the ambulance purchase.
At a press briefing held at the NDC headquarters on Tuesday, May 28, Mr. Nketia claimed that Mr. Dame accused the third accused person in the case, Richard Jakpa, of defending Dr. Forson rather than himself during cross-examination by counsel for the Minority Leader.
Mr. Nketia asserted that Mr. Jakpa disclosed that the Attorney-General had been meeting and engaging in telephone conversations with him at unusual hours to pressure him into testifying forcefully against the Minority Leader, Dr. Forson, to secure a conviction.
In light of this, Mr Nketia said; “So Minister of Justice, you are not interested in justice; you are interested in just jailing somebody.”
He added that the Attorney-General, who should be focused on delivering justice to Ghanaians, has now become a “torchbearer of injustice” due to political interests.
Mr. Nketia further stated that the Attorney-General could not refute the assertions made by the third accused person regarding the telephone conversations and the pressure to testify against Dr. Forson in order to secure a conviction.
“In the period following the revelations, the NDC has obtained compelling evidence which supports Mr Jakpa’s claim that the Attorney-General indeed has engaged him on countless occasions and urged him to falsify his testimony to aid the case of the Attorney-General against Dr Ato Forson.”
