Your Day of Reckoning is Coming – Sammy Gyamfi ‘Fires’ Attorney General

Sammy Gyamfi, the National Communications Officer of the major opposition party, the National Democratic Congress (NDC), has stated that the Attorney-General and Minister of Justice will be held accountable for what he sees as an infringement of justice.

Sammy Gyamfi believes that the testament of the third accused, Richard Jakpa, supports the NDC’s claim that the Attorney-General and Minister of Justice want to use whims and caprices to convict Dr. Cassiel Ato Forson, the minority leader and Member of Parliament for AjumakoEssiam-Enyan.

Speaking in a radio interview on Accra based Joy FM, Sammy Gyamfi said, “His day of accountability, his day of reckoning has come. His cup is full, God has exposed his evil works which he does under the cloak of his office as Attorney-General. And it is time for him to face the music. And we are telling him, he is not above the law.”

Sammy Gyamfi’s comment follows the testimony of the third accused, who said that the Attorney-General phoned him at odd hours to work in his favor to implicate Dr. Ato Forson, a deputy Finance Minister in the previous Mahama administration.

“The A-G has on several occasions engaged me at odd hours to help him make a case against A1 and I have evidence for that. If he pushes me, I will open the Pandora’s Box. I don’t understand why the A-G will accuse me of defending A1 when I’m here to defend myself. If he pushes me, I’ll open the Pandora’s Box. I have evidence to all this,” he said on Thursday, May 23.

Sammy Gyamfi maintains that the Attorney-General is using all available means to find the head of the minority caucus in parliament guilty in order to settle political scores, given how harshly the leader has criticized the administration.

Sammy Gyamfi said, “If your hands are clean, you have no ill-motive and you want to communicate with an accused person before the court, you know his lawyer so you go through his lawyer. You don’t go calling the accused person, meeting him under the cover of darkness, planning all manner of things that I am restraining myself not to put them out ahead of next week’s press conference.”

In a press release issued by the Office of the Attorney-General and Ministry of Justice, signed by Deputy Minister Alfred Tuah Yeboah, the Ministry denied all allegations leveled against the A-G and the office, emphasizing that the ministry worked based on the information obtained as a result of its investigations.

“The Republic has throughout the trial, relied solely on the record of the impugned transaction, i.e. the purchase of ordinary vans purporting to be ambulances, to sustain its case against the accused persons. This record existed before January, 2022 (when the case was commenced) and was duly filed in Court by the prosecution before the commencement of the trial.”

“The Republic has never required or desired the cooperation of any of the accused persons in the matter, in which it has already succeeded in establishing a prima facie case against all the accused persons. Neither the Attorney-General nor any officer from the Office of the Attorney-General has approached any of the accused persons with the view to obtaining evidence from them.”

The Attorney-General went on to say that the NDC’s recent testimony against him is a deliberate attempt to stray from due process of justice.

“It is rather the third accused who, by various letters dated 27th April, 2023, 16th May, 2023, 30th May, 2023 and 12th June, 2023, has proposed to the Republic through the Attorney-General to engage in plea bargaining or plea negotiations. This plea bargaining proposal has, to date, not been accepted by the Attorney-General.

“Even though the law on plea bargaining passed by Parliament permits a prosecutor to negotiate with an accused person after a plea proposal has been made, the Attorney-General has not engaged the third accused person to give false testimony in the matter.

“The Attorney-General has also come under enormous pressure from all manner of persons for him to discontinue the prosecution of the 1st accused person, Cassiel Ato Forson, but has not yielded.”

“The Office of the Attorney-General and Ministry of Justice considers the latest allegation levelled against the Attorney-General as part of a grand scheme by the NDC to put more pressure on him to discontinue the prosecution or to divert attention from the real issues regarding the actions of the accused persons which have caused enormous financial loss to the State.”