The New Patriotic Party says the recent banter between the Attorney General and Alfred Woyome is a poor attempt at diverting the attention of the public from the key issue of retrieving the 51 million cedis illegally paid to the business man.

Describing the banter as a "sham" the party said the AG must rather focus attention on retrieving the monies illegally paid to Mr. Woyome.

Just days after he was acquitted and discharged by a court of willfully causing financial loss to the state and defrauding by false pretence, Alfred Woyome called for the resignation of the Attorney General, Marietta Brew Appiah-Oppong accusing her of benefitting from the controversial 51 million cedis judgment debt paid to him.

He said the AG and her firm benefitted directly by taking $1 million from the ¢51m he received from the government in 2010 and demanded her dismissal from government.

But the AG Marietta Brew Appiah-Oppong dismissed the claims. 

She explained that her firm on behalf of their client, Austro Invest, started the legal processes against Woyome to take part of the ¢51million but they aborted the processes midway.

She said the amount which Woyome accused her of taking was debt owed one of her clients and has nothing to do with the ¢51 million judgment debt scandal.

The AG described  Mr. Woyome's petition as mischievous meant to distract her from pursuing the appeal she has initiated against the court ruling that frees him.

But the NPP is not in the mood for the banter between the two.

At a press conference, the party said the government's pursuit of the judgment debt case against Woyome has been “shoddy, lackadaisical and a total waste of time.”

Nana Akomea, the party's director of communications, said if government claims it was defrauded by Woyome, why is it not prosecuting the public officials who colluded with Woyome to defraud the country?

The party said they are not interested in the theatricals between the AG and Woyome.

Government must retrieve the money from Woyome at the going interest rate, Joy News' Kwakye Afre-Nuamah reported the Communications Director of the NPP Nana Akomea as saying.

"The NPP calls on all Ghanaians to be vigilant, stand up and fight for the payments to Mr. Woyome to be refunded to the State.  GHC51.2m in 2010/ 2011 is today worth over GHC130m per the prevailing exchange rate, " Akomea said.

The party's Youth Organiser Sammy Awuku on the sidelines of the press conference told Afreh-Nuamah the government "has taken the citizens for a ride" for far too long.

"From day one they did not show any interest in getting  back the money," he intimated accusing the AG of being shoddy in executing the case at the High Court.

With the notice of appeal, Awuku said government "shouldn't come back to us with another cock and bull story."