Sir John Mad With NDC Over Woyome
Former General Secretary of the New
Patriotic Party (NPP), Kwadwo Owusu- Afriyie, popularly known as Sir
John, has served notice to National Democratic Congress (NDC) activists,
warning them against linking him to the infamous Woyome scandal.
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Sir
John said NDC members had made it a point to drag his name into the
woyome saga by claiming that he benefited from the Gh¢51.2 million the
NDC financier pocketed from the government, saying that he would sue
anyone who linked the scandal to him.
“I
dare any NDC person who would repeat anywhere that I benefited from the
woyome judgement debt cash that I will institute legal action against
that person because if I received anything from woyome, it was years
before the judgement debt was paid the businessman…,” he said on Adom FM
yesterday.
Some NDC members including
propaganda chiefs like Kwaku Boahen, he said, were trying to smear him
with the Woyome paint by drawing him into the supposed list
of beneficiaries of the controversial and fraudulent Gh¢51.2 million
judgment debt paid Alfred Agbesi Woyome, the self-acclaimed financier of
the NDC, by the State.
So far, woyome
who prides himself in being a financial engineer, has mentioned the name
of current Attorney-General (A-G) and Minister of Justice,
Marietta Brew Appiah-opong and the private legal firm, Lithur Brew and
co, which she used to manage with President Mahama’s lawyer, Tony
Lithur, as the beneficiaries of the money he has been ordered by
the Supreme Court to refund to the State.
Sir
John admitted dealing with woyome in the year 2004, way before
the controversial judgment debt was paid to the man in 2010, and added
that their interaction had nothing to do with the Gh¢51.2 million.
“Yes,
I received a RAV4 from him but that was in 2004 when I offered
legal services to him…he also paid me cash as part of my legal fees…,”
he said, insisting that those things were not given him for free.
Instead, he said they were offered according to the monetary value of the legal services he rendered.
DAILY
GUIDE learnt that the services he rendered to woyome were in
relation to a chieftaincy issue at the Volta Regional house of Chiefs.
Sir John also defended an alleged rape case involving a nephew of the NDC moneybag.
At
the time, Sir John saidhe was working with the Ghana National
Petroleum Corporation between 2002 and 2003 when someone introduced
woyome to him.
From that time he became woyome’s lawyer, he disclosed.
He
said in some cases when he represented woyome’s interest, he chose
to be paid with tangibles rather than cash, a practice which he said was
not new since lawyers at times demanded same from their clients.
The
former NPP scribe said in some cases he was even given parcels of
land from clients he had rendered legal services to. This, he said,
included four parcels of land located on the Accra-Kasoa highway
in Accra and three plots located in Ahenema Kokoben in the Ashanti
regional capital, Kumasi.
Sir John
told DAILY GUIDE in a follow up interview that if the NDC thought
linking him to the fraudulent payment would prevent woyome from
paying back the money, it was a big joke, and that the NDC financier
must vomit the money.
He urged the Attorney- General to use all available means to retrieve the money from woyome.
source: Daily Guide
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