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A former deputy Finance Minister under the Kufuor administration, Kwaku Agyemang-Manu, has served notice he is ready to square off with the Attorney General in court following a writ that mentioned him to have signed a letter which formed the basis for the payment of the controversial GhC51 million judgment debt to Alfred Woyome. Mr. Agyemang-Manu said the A-G has taken the right course to seek for refund of the whopping sum, but insisted that the letter being mentioned was never a contract between the Ghana government and the embattled NDC financier. �I�m glad the Attorney General has started this process,� Mr. Agyemang-Manu told Joy Fm in an interview on Monday. �The Attorney General should have started this long time ago. � He said the one or three-page letter was only meant to serve as an introduction for Waterville and for that matter the consortium being coordinated by Mr. Woyome to do their work smoothly. Mr. Agyemang-Manu insisted that the said letter signed on May 4, 2005 had a provision stating that the government will not be held liable for any eventuality. Meanwhile, one of the lawyers of the beleaguered National Democratic Congress financier, Robertson Kpatsa, has said he has not been served with any writ coming from the Attorney General seeking to pray the court to reverse a Ghc51 million judgment debt awarded his client. Mr. Kpatsa acknowledged that the A-G made his intentions known in court today that he wants to amend his writ, but as to the details of the modification he is not aware of that. �I have not been served with a motion for amendment,� he said.