Former Finance Minister in the Kufuor administration Yaw Osafo Maafo has appeared before an Accra high court Wednesday to defend his decision not to honour an invitation by the Economic and Organized Crime Office (EOCO). Mr. Osafo Maafo was scheduled to appear before the state investigative body last week to assist in investigations into the controversial judgment debt payment to businessman Alfred Woyome. He turned down the invitation, alleging that the EOCO has a different agenda from what President Mills had directed it to do in the Woyome judgment debt saga. Mr. Osafo Maafo was Sports Minister at the time the contract for the construction of stadia for CAN 2008 was awarded. He’s in court to prevent the EOCO from compelling him to appear before it. According to Joy News reporter Sammy Darko, who was in court, the judge for Wednesday’s hearing, Justice Dennis Agyei adjourned the matter to February 27. The adjournment was due to the inability of counsel for EOCO to appear in court. He was said to be indisposed. Counsel for Osafo Maafo on the other hand pleaded with the court to caution EOCO to stop going ahead with its investigations into the matter because that would amount to contempt of court because they were seeking a restraining order to that effect. The judge cautioned both parties not to do anything that will prejudice the case. Mr. Osafo Maafo appeared in court in person accompanied by O.B. Amoah, former Deputy Sports Minister as well as the Deputy Finance Minister under the Kufuor administration, Kwaku Agyeman Manu and other New Patriotic Party sympathisers.