Minority Leader Cassiel Ato Forson has accused Attorney General Godfred Yeboah Dame of leading a campaign of ‘malicious prosecution’ aimed at damaging his reputation to undermining his influence as a prominent opposition figure
Speaking in Parliament on Monday, January 6, ahead of the dissolution of the 8th Parliament, Dr. Forson claimed that he became a target of the 8th Parliament under the New Patriotic Party (NPP) regime due to his concerns about mismanagement by the Akufo-Addo-Bawumia government.
He stated that his recent prosecution was a calculated attempt to intimidate and silence him.
Ato Forson highlighted that his prosecution began after the rejection of the e-levy and 2022 budget, and that he was charged on Christmas Eve.
He alleged that the Attorney General used crude tactics to achieve ‘malicious prosecution’ and satisfy the regime.
He said, “My recent prosecution, or call it persecution, by the Attorney General over frivolous and trumped-up charges was calculated to intimidate and silence and completely extinguish a known dissenting voice, and my crime was that I sounded alarm bells on an economy that was being mismanaged and ruined by a select few in government.”
“The fact that my prosecution began in the wake of the tussle over e-levy should not be lost on anyone that I became an instant target of the regime.”
“I was charged on the Christmas Eve, a few days after the rejection of the e-levy and 2022 budget. From that point, the Attorney General and the minister responsible for justice, Godfred Yeboah Dame in whom prosecutorial powers of the state is vested, was determined to implore all crude tactics to achieve his ends of malicious prosecution just to satisfy the regime.”
