The Minister for National Security, Albert Kan Dapaah, has actually suggested that properties of business person Alfred Agbesi Woyome, which were to be auctioned by the state to settle some money he owes the state must be surrendered to the state to “obviate the requirement for an auction.”
The clarification by Kan Dapaah follows the failure of the auctioneer to sell assets belonging to Alfred Agbesi Woyome due to fears by possible buyers that the properties will be restored to Woyome by future governments.
The Supreme Court, in 2019, ordered the sale of homes found by the state to belong to the embattled business owner to defray a GHS51.2 million judgment financial obligation paid him which the nation’s peak court has ruled must be reimbursed.
According to the court, a claim by the now-defunct UT Bank that Woyome utilized 2 of his houses at Trassaco as security for a loan might not be shown.
The court also ruled that Alfred Agbesi Woyome’s quarry was not utilized as security as he and the bank had declared.
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Apart from the two houses at Trassacco, Woyome’s property at Kpehe in addition to a stone quarry he owns were to be sold.
They all have an overall worth of GHS20 million, according to Deputy Attorney general of the United States Godfred Yeboah Dame.
Nevertheless, in a letter signed by Kan Dapaah addressed to the Workplace of the Chief Law Officer and Ministry of Justice with reference to the order by the Supreme Court, the Minister stated that: “The auctioneer tasked with auctioning the homes has suggested his inability to effectively carry out the task because potential buyers hesitate, among other reasons, that the homes may be restored to Woyome by the state in the future.
It continued that due to this, “it has been decided that the properties be given up to the state to prevent the requirement for an auction” and gotten in touch with the AG to “take the required actions to have the above decision effected.”
