The Director of Conflict Resolution at the National Democratic Congress, Lawyer Abraham Amaliba has told Attorney-General Godfred Yeboah Dame to step down if he intends to save bits of his shattered reputation.
Abraham Amaliba said the storm coming Godfred Dame’s way would be too much for him to bear and it would do him good to flee while he still has something left to protect.
Lawyer Amaliba argued that an Attorney-General who does not have a cool head is unfit for the office. He said the Attorney-General considers political rivals enemies, thus the unwarranted pursuit of the Minority Leader, Cassiel Ato Forson.
“The AG has met his Waterloo…he simply is not fit for that office and I have said that an AG should be cool-headed. He lacks temperament, he sees his political opponents as enemies.”
Touching on what the NDC has for Godfred Dame in the coming weeks, Abraham Amaliba said the A-G will hear his voice in the scheme to implicate the former Deputy Finance Minister. Based on that, Amaliba said the best thing for Godfred Dame would be to quit and save himself some grace.
“I think at this point Godfred Dame should resign…Next week we have promised to put these things out. He will hear his own voice to implicate [Ato Forson]. So I think it is in his best interest to resign before this evidence is adduced” Amaliba explained.
Amaliba revealed that Godfred Dame met the accused person multiple times with his lawyers in a bid to lead him to implicate Cassiel Ato Forson.
“Because he knows he has met the accused person several times without his lawyer. He knows he has spoken to the accused person in times that the accused person himself described as ungodly hours all in an attempt to get the third accused person to implicate the first accused.”
Meanwhile, Godfred Dame has gone ahead as promised and published letters from the third accused person, Richard Jakpa who asked him to drop the case for a settlement. In the letter, Richard Jakpa said the ambulance at the centre of the case should be released for the company that procured them and all the persons in the case should be set free. In return, the state will be reimbursed €2 million in two instalment payments.
