Chief Justice Akoto Ampaw named in $ 5 million corruption allegation

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Chief Justice, Kwasi Anin-Yeboah

Client Says His Lawyer Suggested He Paid Money For “Certain Means”

The lawyer, however, denied the request.

The case is before the General Legal Council

The Chief Justice, Kwasi Anin-Yeboah, and lawyer Akoto Ampaw were named in a statement by a certain Kwasi Afrifa of O&A Legal Consult, addressed to the Disciplinary Committee of the General Legal Council, in which he [Afrifa] alleges that his client, Ogyeedom Obranu Kwesi Atta VI, once told him that the Chief Justice demanded a bribe of USD 5,000,000 for a favorable outcome to his case.

Kwasi Afrifas’ statement dated July 8, 2021 is a response to a claim by Ogyeedom Obranu Kwesi Atta VI that he [Afrifa] during the treatment of his case of Ogyeedom Obranu Kwesi Atta VI v. Ghana Telecommunications Co. Ltd. – suggested to him [Ogyeedom] to provide an amount of US $ 100,000 to allow him to do some ways and means (gymnastics) on the case so that we can obtain a favorable decision.

Ogyeedom in his petition to the GLC on March 1, 2021, said he knew he had a good case in the Supreme Court of Ghana, he heeded the advice of his lawyer. However, he later realized that the money was not being used for its intended purpose.

So I fired him from the case and asked him to refund the money, but he has since refunded me US $ 25,000, leaving a balance of US $ 75,000 owed to me. All efforts to recover the amount failed, Ogyeedom Obranu Kwesi Atta VI said as he appealed to the chairman of the General Legal Council to help him recover the remaining amount from lawyer Kwasi Afrifa.

In a three-page response available to GhanaWeb, Kwasi Afrifa unequivocally denied all the allegations. According to him, he never suggested to Ogyeedom Obranu Kwesi Atta VI to provide an amount for what he described as “ways and means”.

While Kwasi Afrifa admitted to being Ogyeedom Obranu Kwesi Atta VI’s former lawyer, he refuted the latter’s claim that he requested and accepted funds to bribe the Chief Justice.

At the end of July 2020, the Applicant informed me that friends of his who were very politically connected had taken him to see the Chief Justice who had agreed to help him win his case on condition that he let me down as as lawyer in charge of the case. for him and hire Akoto Ampaw Esq for me, said Kwasi Afrifa.

He further informed me that the Chief Justice had demanded a bribe of $ 5,000,000 for a favorable outcome of his case and that he had already paid $ 500,000 to the Chief Justice. He further indicated that he was having difficulty collecting the remainder of the 5,000,000 USD and that I therefore had to reimburse part of the 300,000 GH which had been paid to me as fees because, in accordance with the judge’s advice in chief, he had hired Akoto Ampaw Esq as a lawyer to pursue the case in the Supreme Court, Afrifa added.

After the said request was made, Afrifa said he had instead made the decision to reimburse the amount Ogyeedom Obranu Kwesi Atta VI paid him for the processing of his case. This, he argued, he did out of a sense of dignity.

He said: we aggregated the 300,000 GH that was paid to me as being the equivalent of US $ 50,000 that I had to reimburse him without any schedule being indicated. He said he wanted the payment in dollars because he collected the rest of the money to be paid to the Chief Justice, and that currency was the currency of choice.

On January 27, 2021, I paid the petitioner an amount of $ 25,000 and subsequently paid him $ 15,000 for a total of $ 40,000, so the unpaid amount I have to reimburse him is $ 10,000. I am ready, willing and able to make said payment of USD 10,000 when I appear before the Committee on July 15, 2021.

Below is the petition and the response.

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