Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Godfred Yeboah Dame, has debunked as complete falsehood the Member of Parliament (MP) for North Tongu, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa’s allegations of conflict of interest against him, intimating that there was no company called the National Cathedral of Ghana in existence at the time the PPA board he served on approved the contract.
“I consider the allegation by Mr Okudzeto Ablakwa malevolent and ill-inspired for the simple reason that a cursory examination of the facts would have revealed the untruth in them. I call on the Member of Parliament to retract and apologise to the public for the falsehood he has published against me, failing which I may institute legal action against him,” the Attorney General warned in a statement release last Wednesday.
Recall that Okudzeto Ablakwa in a Facebook post he made on Tuesday, June 21, 2022, raised myriad of allegations against the construction of a National Cathedral by government which included that “… when the National Cathedral was incorporated on 18th July, 2019; the then Deputy Attorney General, Godfred Dame was registered as Secretary.”
“During the same period, he served on the board of the Public Procurement Authority which approved David Adjaye’s irregular sole sourcing contract. A clear conflict of interest situation, particularly from additional evidence available to us,” he added.
The minister for Justice Godred Dame however described the allegations as false and dishonest and seems to school the MP on the procedures to through before a government not-for-profit entity is registered and what role he(the deputy Attorney General) play.
Read the full rejoinder by the attorney general:
