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Catherine Afeku qualifies to be minister - Lawyer insists
A group calling itself the Truth and Accountable Governance (TAG), has petitioned Parliament’s Appointments Committee to reject Catherine Afeku because she was once found guilty fraud.
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Catherine Afeku has been nominated as the Minister for Tourism, Arts and Culture but a group calling itself the Truth and Accountable Governance (TAG) has petitioned Parliament’s Appointments Committee to reject her because she was once found guilty of fraud.
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Afeku's lawyer, Godfred Dame, explained that his client and her husband were involved in a court case in 2007 but it was a civil lawsuit filed by an American couple, as evidenced by public records.
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“There has not been any judgment whatsoever by any court of competent jurisdiction in Ghana, or anywhere in the world convicting Catherine Afeku of fraud or any other criminal offence.
“The case between the Americans was a civil one; a civil one instituted by them in 2005 and Judgment was given by the commercial division of the High Court in 2007. The Judgments were for the specific reliefs of the recovery of the sum of $217,000. That is not a criminal offence; is it?” he asked.
Dame further explained that, “Catherine Afeku and the Americans entered into some business transactions, the object of which was to incorporate a company in Ghana. The Americans, who claimed to have an interest in the company, were not satisfied with certain payments that were made, and it was specifically in relation to that the action was filed.”
Afeku, however, in 2013, appealed the 2007 judgment alleging fraud on the part of the Americans, who filed the initial lawsuit.
“She had come by evidence suggesting that the judgement itself was procured by fraud. So Catherine Afeku filed another action and I executed it on her behalf in 2013, seeking to set aside the earlier judgement on the basis of fraud.”
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Dame said that application was granted by the High Court, adding that it meant “that [the 2007] judgment, as far as I am concerned cannot even be enforced in the Jurisdiction of Ghana.”
There were reports on Wednesday that the president, Nana Akufo-Addo had ordered a probe into the matter.
Dame confirmed that, saying the president only needed some clarification from him on the matter, and he has since offered the president the needed explanation.
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