Shoddy State Attorneys must sit up or get out of AG's department! NDC man screams

Samuel George Nartey is angry at the repertoire of defeats suffered at the law court merely because state prosecutors have been shoddy in their jobs.

He was discussing the controversial Kennedy Agyapong case on Joy FM and MultiTV Newsfile programme, Saturday.

The state has filed a writ of certiorari at the Supreme Court, praying the court to quash the proceeding currently at the High Court.

Some legal minds have described the action by the prosecution as alien to the law, more so when the state could easily have filed for a nolle prosequi.

George Nartey appeared to support that line of argument, accusing the Attorney General’s department as grossly inefficient.

He said it cannot be the case that people have not amassed wealth illegally; nor can it be said that people have not engaged in corruption. What it is, is that the AG's office has been grossly incompetent in handling the cases and has left criminals go scot free, he averred.

“I still have a problem with the Attorney General’s Department, not necessarily the AG himself but the department and the support staff who are there.

“…If you carry out a survey as to the most dysfunctional state institution it is going to be the AG's department.

“The AG's department has failed the people of this country. It is not that we don’t have criminals who have looted state resources. It is not that we don’t have people who have sat in government and used cronyism, arbitrariness and abuse of office to amass state property for themselves. It is not that these people don’t exist in this country. It is simply because the AG's department which is vested with criminal prosecution has done a very shoddy job. They must bow their heads in shame,” Samuel George Nartey snapped.

He said the comedy of errors by the state attorneys are one too many and lawyers must sit-up and work or get out of the department.

But the Editor in Chief of the New Crusading Guide newspaper, Kweku Baako Jnr said state attorneys cannot be blamed for serial defeats the government is suffering.

“When the charges are politically procured, regardless of the professional competence of the attorneys, it will end up in a cul de sac [or a dead end]."

He said “there is too much partisan politics informing the charges going to court and that is why they are having no positive report.

Another member of the panel, Mathew Opoku Prempeh is wondering why the Attorney General has not been to court to defend the state against the ¢51 million paid to Woyome but was able to go to court to set aside a ¢5 million slapped on the state for not appearing before the court.

Play the attached audio for excerpts of the discussion.

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