PAC adjourns Woyome hearing on concerns of bias, subjudice

The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of Parliament on Wednesday had to adjourn sitting due to concerns of bias and possible subjudice raised by the legal team of businessman and politician Alfred Agbesi Woyome, in the matter of the controversial GH¢51 million judgement debt payment.

Woyome’s legal team, headed by Osarfo Buabeng, expressed reservation of the PAC Chairman Albert Kan-Dapaah and his Vice Kweku Agyemang Manu superintending the hearing because both were  part of the Cabinet that truncated the contract that led to the controversial GH¢51 million judgement debt payout and  would thus be biased in the process.

The team also said it was not ready to deliberate the issues Mr Woyome was being requested to speak to at the hearing because that same subject was being contended in different courts and commenting on them could interfere with the administration of justice.

This stance by Woyome’s legal team led to heated partisan arguments as to the propriety  and legality of hearing Mr Woyome speak to the matter as contained in the Auditor-General’s Report.

Thus PAC Chairman Kan-Dapaah had to adjourn the sitting indefinitely for those not clear to seek interpretation to constitutional issues raised at the forum.

Source: GNA