The Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, Dr. Dominic Ayine has justified why he discontinued the case against Finance Minister Dr. Cassiel Ato Forson in the controversial ambulance case.
The A-G last month discontinued the case which involved allegations of causing a financial loss of €2.37 million to the state in a deal to procure ambulances for the Government of Ghana.
Addressing a press conference today, Wednesday, February 12, Dr. Dominic Ayine explained the decision to drop charges and discontinue the case against Dr. Ato Forson.
He argued that he believed the Finance Minister was a target of a political witch hunt.
“In the case of the Republic vrs. Ato Forson I was not counsel on record but my colleague Eduzdzi Tamakloe was counsel on record …I believe then and I believe now that the Honourable Ato Forson was a victim of a political witch hunt,” Dr. Dominic Ayine noted.
The Attorney-General continued, “…no new evidence has been provided to me since I assumed office as Attorney-General to cause me to abandon my professional convictions.
“The second reason why I dropped some of the charges on the above case is that the charges were defective and upon careful scrutiny, they were filed against the prompting of plain common sense.”
Meanwhile, the Attorney-General has taken full responsibility for the discontinuation of the case, stressing that President John Dramani Mahama had no hand in them.
