The Attorney-General's Department says Godfred Yeboah Dame said nothing wrong in the alleged tape containing the conversation between the Attorney-General and the Richard Jakpa, the third accused in the ongoing ambulance procurement trial.

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) on May 28, played a 16-minute audio alleging it is a recording of a conversation between the A-G and Richard Jakpa.

The NDC said the audio corroborates Mr Jakpa's claim that the Attorney-General tried to recruit him to help condemn the first accused, Dr Cassiel Ato Forson in the ambulance case.

Ato Forson and Jakpa are standing trial for allegedly causing financial loss to the state, willfully.

But the Deputy Attorney-General, Alfred Tuah-Yeboah, argues that after carefully listening to the audio, he is certain nothing untoward was said by the Attorney-General.

"There is no doubt that the Attorney-General had a conversation with the third accused, as you've heard from our spokesperson. Very true, circumstances led to that kind of conversation and we think nothing untoward was said," he said on the sidelines of the launch of Amnesty International’s Human Rights and Death Penalty Report 2023.

Following the release of the audio, the NDC has called for the resignation of Mr Dame. Several other social commentators have also demanded same.

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In response, Mr Tuah-Yeboah said the NDC has no basis to call for Mr Dame's resignation since the authenticity of the audio has not been proven.

Others have called for the establishment of a commission of inquiry to probe the allegation and recording, but Mr Tuah-Yeboah said “That may be the view of other people but not my view.”

He stressed that the purported audio will in no way affect the court proceedings since what was happening in the public space was politicking.

“The audios, if there are any, have nothing to do with what we are doing in court. And the judge made it known that what we are doing in court is different from what we are doing in the public space, that is, politicking. Our focus is to do what we are supposed to do in court for it to get to the end of this matter, he added.