The African Court on Human and Peoples’ Right (ACHPR) based in Arusha, Tanzania, has dismissed a legal move by businessman Alfred Agbesi Woyome to halt the selling of his properties meant to offset the GH¢46 million he owes Ghana.
In a unanimous decision, a 10-member panel of the court dismissed a review application filed by Mr Woyome on the basis that he failed to introduce any convincing new evidence which was the legal requirement for review under Rule 67 of the ACHPR Rules.
On March 4, 2020, this year, Woyome filed the review application urging the court to depart from its previous decision delivered against him on June 28, 2019.
Woyome had contended then that Ghana had discriminated against him during legal proceedings to retrieve the GH¢46 million he had received unlawfully as judgment debt paid to him by the government.
It was his case that the Supreme Court of Ghana treated him unfairly and violated his rights to non-discrimination during proceedings which culminated in him being ordered by the apex court of Ghana to refund the judgment debt paid to him.
The ACHPR, however, dismissed his case and held that Ghana treated him fairly and equally before the law during those legal proceedings, and, therefore, there had been no violation of his rights under the African Human Rights Charter.
It was based on that decision that Woyome filed the application for review.
Apart from the review application, the businessman also filed an application for provisional measure urging the court to halt the auctioning of his properties in Ghana until the final determination of his review application.
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Daily Graphic
