Former Attorney General and Minister of Justice Mr Martin Amidu has hit back at the Minister of Communications Dr Edward Omane Boamah for describing him as damn big liar.

In his latest article, he said” the cabinet Minister is reported to have insisted that: “Mr. Amidu lied when he claimed that the Attorney General’s firm was on the side of Mr. Woyome when in fact the firm was rather against Woyome.

The riotous Minister is said to have demanded, pestering the host of the show to “Get Martin Amidu to speak to his lies insisting that the ‘truth is being sacrificed’ w ith the host’s show of disinterest in allowing the Communications Minister to direct how the show should be run”.

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OMANE BOAMAH! THE SUPREME COURT UNANIMOUSLY DECLARED LITHURBREW’S
AUSTRO-INVEST LIMITED AS JOINT LOOTERS WITH WOYOME NOT
AMIDU: BY MARTIN A. B. K. AMIDU

I have never been a “damn big liar” in the action I commenced in the Supreme Court on 22nd June 2012 in the case of Martin Alamisi Amidu v (1) Attorney General (2) Waterville Holding Company Limited (BVI) (3) Austro-Invest Management Services Limited, and (4) Alfred Agbesi Woyome or in any application I have made to the Court in connection with that case as Edward
Omane Boamah, the Minister of Communications, is reported by 3 news.com on Ghana Web to
have charged me with on Multi TV/Joy FM’s news analysis programme, newsfile on Saturday
12th November 2016.
The substantive case concluded on 29th July 2014 and all I have sought to do is to ensure that the
orders of the Court to Woyome to refund the whopping GHC51.2million is obeyed timeously as
mandated by Article 2 of the 1992 Constitution. It does no credit to the Government which
created, looted and shared the unconstitutional payment with Woyome to send its Minister of
Communications and other junior Ministers to attack my character and person.
My application dated 4th November 2016 for leave to examine on oath Mr. Woyome as to his
means and property to satisfy the judgment debt was heard on 10th November 2016. The case
was adjourned for ruling to 15th November 2016 with an admonishing to the parties not to
comment further on the case. The Government does not demonstrate any respect for the rule of
law and the independence of the judiciary, particularly of the Supreme Court, when the
Government unleashes its Communications Minister to charge me with being a “damned big
liar” and demand that I purge myself of my lies on a live TV/ radio show, as reported.
Edward Omane Boamah’s major charge against me is that I told “the courts that the current
Attorney General Mrs. Marietta Brew Appiah-Opong’s firm, Lithur-Brew and Co represented
Austro-Invest, a company he claimed benefitted from the GHC51.2million wrongly paid to
Woyome.” The cabinet Minister is reported to have insisted that: “Mr. Amidu lied when he
claimed that the Attorney General’s firm was on the side of Mr. Woyome when in fact the firm
was rather against Woyome.” The riotous Minister is said to have demanded, pestering the host
of the show to “Get Martin Amidu to speak to his lies”, -“insisting that the ‘truth is being
sacrificed’with the host’s show of disinterest in allowing the Communications Minister to direct
how the show should be run”. The conduct of the Government’s Communications Minister
confirms the Government’s impunity and abuse of power in acting unconstitutionally to control
the content of even private media houses such as Multi TV/Joy FM.
The drunken tantrums cowardly thrown by Omane Boamah shows the shallowness of his
education, understanding, and lack of diligence and industry in researching matters he is to
defend the Government on in public. Simple common sense would have informed the almighty
Minister of Communications who sought to take over Multi TV/Joy FM to insult me that in
arguing my case before the Supreme Court on 10th November 2016 I referred the Court to its
own unanimous decision given in my favour on 29th July 2014.
The Supreme Court made three declarations and one order in my favour. The first is: “1. A
declaration that the Honourable Attorney General, the 1st Defendant Respondent, in this case in
paying or ordering the payment by the Republic of Ghana of claims by the 3rd Defendant and
Austro-Invest, …is inconsistent with and in contravention of Article 181(5) of the 1992
Constitution…and are according declared null, void and without effect whatsoever. The third
declaration is: “3. A declaration that the conduct of the 3rd Respondent, therein Plaintiff, jointly
with Austro-Invest management limited in making claims upon and including the issuance of a
writ of summons with the support of 2nd defendant therein and receiving payment premised upon
the breaches…is in consistent with and in contravention of Article 181 (5) of the Constitution.” I
am attaching herewith a PDF of a certified true copy of the entire decision of the Court dated
29th July 2014 for ease of reference by doubting Thomases like the Government’s lazy or unread
Communication’s Minister. Truth can never be silenced!
The Austro-Invest referred to in declarations 1 and 3 as acting jointly with Woyome, and the
Attorney General to have created, looted and shared the GHC51.2million from the public purse
is the very Austro-Invest which Marietta Brew Appiah-Opong, the current Attorney-General
(appointed in early 2013) admits her firm of Lithur-Brew and Co acted for against Woyome after
the loot was paid to Austro-Invest and Woyome. The declarations of the Supreme Court are clear
that the loot was procured jointly by Woyome and Austro-Invest Management Services Limited
whom the Communication Minister admits was Lithur-Brew and Co.’s client. The
GHC51.2million loot ordered by the Court to be refunded was money, which according to
declaration 3 was paid to Woyome and Austro-Invest jointly, and which the Government and the
current Attorney General from Lithur-Brew and Co have refused or failed to retrieve for the
public purse for such a long time.
This is why it is not fair to call me a bad name and hang me without referring to the declaration
granted by the Court and the situation in which the Government and the current Attorney
General from Lithur-Brew and Co now find themselves. The indefensible aspect of the AustroInvest
case is that at the time Lithur-Brew and Co went to the High Court after the payment of
the loot jointly to Woyome and Austro-Invest to ask for a share of the loot from Woyome, they
were purporting to act for a company which had ceased to exist to their knowledge, unless they
were grossly negligent as lawyers. It is of no moment to me whether they acted directly for
Woyome or indirectly or for Austro-Invests’ share of the joint loot from Woyome. This matter
was exhaustively dealt with last year on my website, martinamidu.com, and in the media with the
supporting evidence of the pleadings filed on Austro-Invest’s behalf by Lithur-Brew and Co.
I relied on the unanimous decision of the Supreme Court dated 29th July 2014 making two
declarations against Woyome and Austro-Invest, the client of Lithur-Brew and Co in my
arguments to the Court on 10th November 2016 and nobody should jump the gun by calling me
“a big damn liar” and perjurer while the case is pending. I am constrained from making any
further comment on the case apart from calling the public’s attention to the final decision of the
Supreme Court, a public record, in respect of Austro-Invest Management Services Limited which
is admitted to have been the client of Lithur-Brew and Co, the firm of the current Attorney
General. No lies!

Martin A. B. K. Amidu

13th November 2016

source:ultimatefmonline