Presidential Staffer Beatrice Annan has asserted that former Attorney General Godfred Yeboah Dame failed to carry himself with the grace and honor expected of someone in such a high office.

According to her, Dame’s tenure as Attorney General will be remembered as a period of embarrassment, not only for the office but for the legal profession as a whole.

Speaking on Good Morning Ghana on Metro TV on Monday, February 17, 2025, she accused him of manipulating the judicial system, alleging that the courts became a safe haven for politically motivated cases during his time in office.

"I think if there is any Attorney General who never carried himself with the grace and honor that an Attorney General should, it is Godfred Dame. He will go down in the history of this country as an Attorney General who brought no honor to the office.

"In fact, he was a total embarrassment to all lawyers. And I was shocked that Godfred Dame could actually have the temerity to speak. Well, I don’t even know how to describe this, but it shows you the level of impunity and the low standards we’ve had to deal with over the last eight years," she remarked.

The presidential staffer further argued that the problems under Dame's leadership were not just confined to the judicial system but also affected the business climate in the country.

"Godfred Dame is a very dishonest person who should not have been an Attorney General in the Fourth Republic. He has taken our jurisprudence backward and has practically messed up not only the judicial system but also the business climate due to numerous unethical practices.

"The courts became a safe haven where the merit of a case no longer mattered. He was so comfortable, whether by calling judges on the phone, visiting them in their offices, or engaging in practices that were new and novel to us as legal practitioners," she stated.

Turning to the issue of politically motivated cases, Beatrice Annan clarified that her objections were not part of a campaign to exonerate NDC officials.

She cited the case of The Republic vs. Ernest Thompson, where Godfred Dame charged Thompson with over 20 counts, only for the court to strike out 17 of those charges as frivolous and unsupported by evidence.

“The court itself struck out over 17 of those charges as frivolous, baseless, and lacking evidence,” she explained.

In her opinion, Dame misused his prosecutorial powers, targeting individuals who expressed opposing political views.

“I’m sure if I were a public officer, simply calling out Godfred Dame would have subjected me to some charges,” she asserted.

Meanwhile, Godfred Dame has criticized the John Dramani Mahama-led administration for what he describes as a deliberate strategy to clear its officials of wrongdoing by discontinuing some high-profile criminal cases.

Speaking at a press conference on February 14, 2025, Dame accused the government of orchestrating a calculated effort to withdraw major criminal cases, particularly those involving former government appointees, to absolve them of any wrongdoing.

“These developments irresistibly point to only one conclusion—a calculated, preconceived ploy on the part of the NDC to wipe out all criminal cases pending against its leading members and officials in the John Mahama government,” he stated.

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