Former Attorney General Godfred Yeboah Dame has slammed the NDC and Mahama government over the acquittal of ex-MASLOC CEO Sedina Tamakloe-Attionu.
According to Godfred Dame, the current administration is turning Ghana’s justice system into “two sets of law for two sets of people”.
In a strongly worded press release today, Dame described the Court of Appeal’s decision to free Tamakloe as “consistent with the predilection of the Attorney-General to discontinue all cases which were being prosecuted against leading members and affiliates of the NDC”.
He called it “the closest Ghana has been to a re-enactment of the Woyome Scandal”.
The former Attorney General rejected claims by NDC communicators that the Akufo-Addo government was to blame for the acquittal.
Dame stated that “no notice of an appeal filed by Sedina Attionu in 2024 came to the attention of the Office of Attorney-General in my tenure”.
He said state attorneys informed the Court of Appeal in April 2026 that they “had not been served with a notice of the appeal” and only became aware after the court directed parties to file submissions.
“Even if an appeal was filed by Sedina Attionu in 2024, it is completely immaterial because no further step was taken by her as the accused/appellant until the NDC came back to power,” Dame said.
Dame said his responsibility was to ensure the convicted person served her 10-year sentence handed down by the High Court in April 2024.
According to Dame, Tamakloe’s lawyers only obtained leave to file written submissions on 10th February 2026 and filed them on 12th February 2026, after he had left office.
He said state attorneys were “surprised” when served on 16th February 2026 because they had no prior notice of the proceedings.
Two sets of law for two sets of people
Dame accused the current Attorney-General of running a “policy of ORAL”, aggressively prosecuting opposition figures while discontinuing cases against NDC members.
“A justice system in which political friends face no accountability and time-honoured rules are compromised for their comfort whilst political opponents are treated like second-class citizens reflects poorly on the State,” he said.
He added that the public rejection of Tamakloe’s acquittal was “merited considering the cogent evidence led at the trial, which enjoyed massive media coverage”.
Dame concluded: “Ghanaians ought to demand more from a government which set out after inauguration, to discontinue all criminal cases pending against its leading members.”
Source: classfmonline.com
