Law professor, Dr Peter Atupaare has said embattled businessman, Alfred Agbesi Woyome deserves to be acknowledged for his role in strengthening the country’s laws.

In his view, Dr Atupaare noted that Mr Woyome was resilient in ensuring the state did not trample on his rights in a case in which he was accused of unjustifiably taking ¢51.2 million from the state.

The senior lecturer at the University of Ghana’s Law School said the businessman pushing the case all the way to the African Court of Human and People’s Rights, has helped in entrenching the rule of law.

The judgement delivered by the African Court which affirmed the Supreme Court ruling giving greenlight for the state to sell Mr Woyome’s properties to defray the debt owed the state, “is a kind of confidence in our judicial system,” he noted Saturday.

“We celebrate both of them and we thank him [Woyome] for helping us build the law, travelling all the way to the African Court,” he said on Newsfile on JoyNews TV.

The lecturer further singles out for praise, former Attorney-General, Martin Amidu, now Special Prosecutor, who single-handedly initiated the court process to ensure the businessman refunded the money wrongfully paid to him.

The state is now the beneficiary of the brave act of the man who prefers to be called ‘Citizen Vigilante’.

“Martin Amidu’s conduct must be praised. It’s part of individual bravery in dealing with the enforcement of laws of the country…” Dr Atupaare added.