Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, Godfred Yeboah Dame has filed an opposition to Dr. Ato Forson’s application for the High Court to order a probe into the his (Attorney-General’s) conduct in the ongoing trial of two persons accused of wilfully causing financial loss to the State.
Ato Forson, Minority Leader in Parliament and first accused in the ambulance procurement case, wants the AG’s conduct probed following an allegation by the third accused in the case, Richard Jakpa, that the AG had been trying to recruit him to aid his (Dr. Forson’s) prosecution.
And apart from the order to inquire into the AG’s conduct, Ato Forson is also seeking an order of mistrial, an injunction and/or stay of proceedings in the criminal case.
But the Attorney-General says the application is “unfounded, unmeritorious and unknown to the law”, and that “no proper grounds have been canvassed by the applicant to warrant a grant of this application, which is unknown to the laws governing criminal law and practice in Ghana.”
Source:Mybrytfmoline.com
