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or serious breaches of

our public

procurement laws.

No serious lawyer or no serious Ghanaian who has read the judgment can honestly describe the evidence as seen, describe the evidence as anything other than overwhelming.

She did not stay to answer it.

She fled the jurisdiction, met trial, and was convicted in absentia.

A fugitive from the very justice system that has now embraced her and freed her.

And yet, within seven weeks of her first return, the conviction has evaporated.

We ask the questions every Ghanaian is asking.

On what principle of law does a mountain of evidence become a mirage? Which findings of fact were perverse? Which directions on the law were wrong? The Ghanaian people are entitled to answers because justice under our Constitution is administered in the name, and they can smell what this is.

Prosecution to file opposing the appeal, because we believe that the high court judgment had merit.

Now, with this judgment, I've also directed the director of public prosecutions to file a notice of appeal and apply for stay of execution.

meaning that if the stay is granted, the status quo will prevail until such a time that the Supreme Court has had time to review the appeal and then made a determination.

So that is all that I can say for now.

I have a soft copy of the judgment.

I'm here to peruse it and then come to a firm conclusion as to what will be our grounds of appeal.

But I want to emphasize that I believe that the judgment of the High Court had merit, and that the United States District Court that extradited her to Ghana had a basis for making a determination that she was the proper subject for extradition.

All right, so the Leonard Attorney General somewhat agreeing with Nanabi, but different tone and different language.

Yes, Manasseh.

Thank you, Samson.

And permit me if I speak like a lay person.

The first thing I saw and I took time to pay attention to the issues that I'm familiar with, even before they went to court.

And if you take the charges relating to causing loss, which were struck out as defective.

I read those charges and I don't know, I think the judge did mention that sometimes beyond what is contained on the fact sheet, beyond the charges, the fact sheet and other documents should also supplement that.

But to be frank, when I read those charges and even read the charge sheet on the 350 vehicles, it was very difficult to be able to link them I could only do so because I knew the amounts involved in the 100 buses, 100 saloon cars, and the 150 other saloon cars.