The Chief Justice His Lordship Anin-Yeboah has referred an allegation of bribery levelled against him to the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) to probe.
A lawyer, Kwame Afrifa from O&A Legal Consult, is alleging that Chief Justice Kwasi Anin-Yeboah had demanded a US$5 million bribe from one Chief Oyeedom Obrani Kwesi Atta VI to undertake some “legal gymnastics” in the Supreme Court.
The lawyer in question is currently facing the General Legal Council for professional misconduct.
On March 1, 2021, chief Kwesi Atta VI petitioned the General Legal Council (GLC), accusing Afrifa of squandering some US$100,000 he paid him to undertake “ways and means gymnastics” at the Supreme Court to obtain a favourable judgment in his suit number J8/96/2020 which was filed against the Ghana Telecom Company Limited for some monies he [Chief Kwesi Atta VI] was claiming.
But the lawyer in response denied the allegation and also levelled allegations against the traditional leader including an alleged bribe to the CJ.
According to Afrifa, in July 2020 Kwesi Atta VI told him that some of his well-connected friends had taken him [Chief Kwesi Atta VI] to see the Chief Justice Anin Yeboah, who had agreed to undertake legal gymnastics for the chief to win his case against Ghana Telecom.
“He further informed me that the Chief Justice had demanded a bribe of USD 5,000,000.00for a successful outcome to his case and that he had already paid USD500,000.00 to the Chief Justice. He further informed me that he was hard-pressed to raise the remainder of the USD5,000,000.00 and so I should refund some of the GHC 300,000.00 paid to me as fees because he had in line with the advice of the Chief Justice, engaged Akoto Ampaw Esq as Solicitor to continue the case before the Supreme Court,” Afrifa said in a damning revelation.
He continued: “Indeed, he told me that his own investigations which he caused the BNI to conduct shows that the Chief Justice was in the process of acquiring several properties at a posh residential area in Kumasi and therefore needed the money urgently. I told him I was simply not interested in his dealings with politicians and persons wielding power.”
But the CJ has referred the matter to the CID saying he does not know the plaintiff neither has he met him before.
According to him, the only time he saw him was when he appeared in court and rose up to identify himself when his case was called.
Read the full statement from the CJ Below
By: Rainbowradioonline.com
