Businessman Alfred Agbesi Woyome has described his current final situation as ‘terrible’ saying he sometimes has to fall on the benevolence of churches and mosques to survive.
The popular businessman whose accounts have reportedly been frozen following a supreme court ruling on the payment of over GHC 50 million judgment debt to the state says his financial struggles appear unending as the state continue to deny him access to funds in his personal bank accounts, a situation which has compelled him to rely on friends, churches and mosques.
“The churches and sometimes the mosque feed me,” the embattled businessman said in an interview with Accra based Citi FM.
Commenting on his seized property, Alfred Woyome alleged a rush for his confiscated asset by government officials.
According to him the legal proceedings for the sale of the property were politically schemed to satisfy some government appointees.
Alfred Woyome alleged that government officials declined to engage him to negotiate the repayment of the GHC 50 million.
“We now saw that there was instant greed, people among them want the properties for themselves, that is the case. I have taken to the human right court under article 33, when they saw that we were there, then the auctioneer had to write a funny letter to Kan- Dapaah who also has personal interest in this matter, Kan-Dapaah now using executive power writing to the attorney general that go to court and then change the judgment to favour us cease his properties “
The Supreme Court, on July 29, 2014, ordered Mr Woyome to refund GHS51.2 million to the state, on the grounds that he benefited from unconstitutional and invalid contracts between the state and Waterville Holdings Limited in 2006 for the construction of stadia for the 2008 Africa Cup of Nations.
