Woyome Catches Attorney General Lying Under Oath In Dirty Scramble For Trassaco Properties

Businessman, Alfred Agbesi Woyome, has filed an ex-parte motion at the Supreme Court seeking the quashing of a decision by the High Court to have his two landed properties at the lush Trassaco Valley in Accra taken over by the state.

In an affidavit accompanying the suit, Woyome details how the Attorney General’s office, the Minister of National Security and an auctioneer Dela Akpe, allegedly connived to secretly turn over Woyome’s properties to the State under the pretext of a phantom auction.

And in the details, the businessman reveals that the AG went as far as lying under oath in court as part of the shenanigans that the conspirators pulled in an attempt to grab Woyome’s properties.

“…That in the ex-parte application before the High Court, the interested party herein stated categorically that the application was for delivery of properties sold to the purchaser at a public auction when the interested party is very much aware that no such public auction has taken place,” Woyome alleged.

The Supreme Court had later ordered that his properties at Trasaco Valley be auctioned to pay the state.

This was after former Attorney General, Martin Amidu had gone to court and secured a ruling in respect of the Ghc51million judgment debt paid to him by the state,

According to Mr. Woyome’s affidavit, even though the auction order had been given by the Supreme Court and the apex court has the power to enforce its orders, the Attorney General, on 7th of June, 2022 secured an order from the High Court (general jurisdiction) for National Security to take over the properties.

The court, presided over by Justice Olivia Obeng Owusu had given the order for National to possess the property and forcibly evict anybody on it if need be after the AG had filed an ex parte application for the properties to be delivered to the National Security Council as the purported buyer of the properties after an auction.

Interestingly, Mr. Woyome who says he was never aware that the case had moved from the Supreme Court to the High Court argues that no such auction took place, thus making the claim by the AG that the properties had been duly auctioned, a lie under oath.

He reminds the apex court that its original order was for the properties at Trassaco Valley be attached and sold by public auction.