Man attacks Woyome at Achimota Mall
There was drama at the Achimota Shopping Mall in
Accra last Saturday when a man accosted businessman
and National Democratic Congress (NDC) financier,
Alfred Agbesi Woyome, for duping the state in the sum of
GHC51.2 million.
The man, angered by Woyome’s inability to refund the
GHC51.2 million dubiously paid to him by the state,
confronted the NDC financier and enquired when he was
going to pay back the money.
An eyewitness account indicated that Mr Woyome was
seated at an eatery with his family having dinner when
the man, yet to be identified, rushed on the businessman
and asked him to cough out the money.
“While Mr Woyome was enjoying his meal, the man stood
at a distance and watched him for some time, after
which he approached him to find out whether he was the
Woyome who had defrauded the state,” the eyewitness
asserted.
The witness said Woyome’s wife immediately denied that
her husband was the Woyome who had defrauded the
state, but Mr Woyome himself admitted that he was
Woyome and tried to find out what the man wanted from
him.
“Immediately Mr Woyome confirmed his identity, the
gentleman pounced on him shouting, ‘you are the one
who spent our money. We will collect our money today,”
the source said.
The action of the man frightened Woyome and the family
as several shoppers were supporting the man, but later
he also grabbed the attacker in the neck and attempted
to pull him outside the mall.
This attracted other shoppers to the scene but Woyome,
who at that moment was holding tight the shirt of his
attacker, handed him over to the police outside the mall.
While the man was being taken away to the Mile 7 police
Station, Mr Woyome and the rest of the family
abandoned their food, sat in a Hyundai Santa Fe black
car with 2010 registration number and followed up to the
station.
Meanwhile, check at the police station revealed that the
man was later freed after Woyome had refused to write
his statement.
It would be recalled that the Court of Appeal, sitting in
Accra on March 10, 2016, unanimously dismissed an
appeal filed by the Attorney General, Marietta Brew
Appiah-Opong, challenging a ruling of the High Court and
discharged Alfred Agbesi Woyome of any criminal
offence over the controversial GHC51.2 million
judgement debt paid to him by the state.
The three-member panel, presided over by Justice Victor
Ofoe, by the unanimous ruling, had upheld the decision
of an Accra High Court presided over by John Ajet
Nassam last year, which acquitted and discharged
Woyome of the charges of defrauding the state by false
pretences and wilfully causing financial loss to the state.
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