Businessman, Alfred Woyome has made an appeal to the government to protect his human rights, hours after some military men reportedly besieged his Trassaco residence over the ¢51.2 million wrongfully paid to him.
He said his situation presents President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo with an opportunity to live up to his much-touted human rights credentials.
"The President did not come through coup d'etat [so] he should rein in on his people," the National Democratic Congress (NDC) financier told Joy News Tuesday.
The state has been pursuing Mr Woyome since 2014 to refund the ¢51.2 million he received through a judgment debt.
Ghana's apex court had ruled the NDC financier had no valid contract with the state to deserve judgment debt. Mr Woyome was asked to pay back the money paid him but he has been hopping from one international court to the other to seek an arbitration.
The last court he petitioned was the International Commerce Chamber Court (ICC), which threw out the businessman's arbitration case last month.
But his case at the African Court on Human and People's Rights is progressing steadily, lawyers for Mr Woyome have said.
The presence of the police and military contingent at the businessman's home was to allow officers from the Lands Commission to value his Trassaco residence. The Supreme Court in a letter dated September 13, requested the Lands Commission to value some four properties belonging to the debtor [Mr Woyome].
They include House No. 16B,6th Street at Tesano, one residential property at Kpehe and two residential properties at Trassaco, all in Accra.
But Mr Woyome wants government to protect his human rights against those who wants to abuse them because his case is still pending at the African Court.
"If the executive is doing this alone [then] it is up to something but getting the judiciary involved raises serious human rights issues under this regime," he said.
He said he has not done anything to disobey the orders given by the country's apex court to deserve the maltreatment being meted out to him.
"If the Constitution still gives me rights to seek justice until alI those avenues have been exhausted, nobody should disrespect my human rights," he said.
Source: myjoyonline.com
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Human left....me nko te a me te, HUMAN RIGHT: you aint not see nothing yet......***barred word*** funu
Even we have to use your houses as an interest and if you don't have any thing else we have to sell your body parts like kidney, liver, heart to pay off your Bill
This ewe/ayigbe man from the Volta region is CRAZY ; why does this thiff not ask all the chiefs in the volta region to help him pay this stolen monies because it was the same Chiefs who were praising Woyome as a patriotic son of the Volta region; it the same thing they said about JJ Rawlings and look at MESS the iditic fiuoll caused Ghana !!!!!; WHAT A DISGRACE !!!!! how do you want Nana Addo to protect you ; it is just like saying the police should protect a thiff from being thrown into jail for fraud or murder.
Massa all that we need to protect you is with you so how do we protect you.
Akoa wei paaaaaaaa . if he is not a wi.tch , then he has something big on him. May be big heart. I cant and shant understand him. Heheheeheheh. Akuffo Addo to proect your wahaaaaaaat ? Could you have protected a pregnant woman who sleeps on the floor at the clinic if you pay up ?
You steal our money and when we want to retrieve same you want your human rights to he protected? It is rather your ***barred word*** left that will be protected. Aboooooowa!