The National Communications Officer for the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Sammy Gyamfi,  has accused Attorney General Godfred Yeboah Dame of causing significant financial loss to the state through his handling of the ambulance case.

According to Mr Gyamfi, the primary objective of the Attorney General in the case should have been a means to recover the alleged lost funds.

However, he argued that Mr Yeboah Dame was more focused on the persecution of the first accused, Dr. Cassiel Ato Forson.

Explaining why he came to such a conclusion, the Communications Officer who spoke on Joy FM’s Newsfile pointed out that a third party, Big Sea, had initially offered to pay an amount of €2 million out of the €2.37 million, however, the Attorney General rejected the offer.

He contended that the refusal to accept the offer highlighted the true motive behind the case.

“It is clear that Attorney General Godfred Yeboah Dame has occasioned a huge financial loss to the state, because any prosecutor who is prosecuting an offence of willfully causing financial loss to the state, your number one goal ought to be the possible recovery of the loss you alleged has been occasioned.

“So if a third party says ‘without prejudice to the rights of any of the accused, this matter can impact my reputation so I want to pay this money to you’ your first inclination is to accept that offer. But you see, because the objective of going after Dr Cassiel Ato Forson was persecution and not prosecution, he was not interested in the recovery of the money,” he said on Saturday.

Mr Gyamfi further recounted how the third accused, Richard Jakpa, adopted Big Sea’s offer and made numerous attempts to engage in a plea bargain, only to be repeatedly rebuffed by the Attorney General.

“… Jakpa writes to say, we are adopting the offer, and again AG rejected it claiming the terms are not acceptable. And Jakpa writes again to amend the terms to make it more favourable and Godfred Dame says he is not interested.

“And his reason was that ‘until you convince Ato Forson to join this plea bargain, I am not accepting it’,” he narrated.

With the case being dismissed by the Court of Appeal, Mr Gyamfi is convinced that the Attorney General has caused financial loss to the state by not accepting the plea deal bargain offered by a third party, Big Sea and Mr Jakpa.

Also, the outspoken politician believes that the Attorney General’s actions demonstrated a targeted effort against Dr. Forson, rather than a genuine attempt to resolve the financial loss issue.

“We can confidently say that the person they were targeting was Dr. Forson,” he asserted.