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The Editor-In-Chief of the New Crusading Guide Newspaper, Malik Kwaku Baako, has minced no words in describing the GH�52 million judgement debt paid to NDC financier Alfred Agbesi Woyome and the ongoing controversy surrounding the payment as �smelling of a conspiracy� by Woyome and Waterville to dupe the country. He has also expressed his disappointment at the response or reaction given by President John Evans Mills regarding the controversial payment. President Mills has been accused of virtually jumping to the defence of the beleaguered NDC guru in the on-going saga after stating in a recent interview that he (Mills) was not out to embarrass beneficiaries of judgment debts. �When this case first broke, I was in the US and I ordered the two ministries involved, at the Attorney General�s Department and the Finance Ministry, to give me a report, a report which I wanted to be published so that the world would know what happened. But upon further thought, I thought that the issue is not whether the amount was paid, who paid it�. First of all, who incurred the liability?...I would want to tell the beneficiaries that I am not out to embarrass them -- NO�We have to find out who incurred the liability because if the court awarded the judgement or awarded the cost, whatever it is, it�s a way of saying that the beneficiary is entitled to it�Now, who made it possible for that beneficiary to be entitled to that amount?� President Mills told Radio Gold last December. But contributing to discussions on Joy FM�s Newsfile program, Kweku Baako said he finds the president�s response to the whole issue �intriguing�. To him, there was no liability in the Woyome case because the former Deputy Consul of Austria did not have any contract with the state.