A Deputy Minister of Information, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa has hit back at the Ghana Integrity Initiative for jumping the gun in the ongoing investigations into the Woyome saga. According Mr Ablakwa, it was the president who commissioned the EOCO to investigate the issue and charged the Attorney-General designate to pursue the case, it would, therefore, be unfair for anyone to conjecture and create the impression as if the government intents covering things up. Mr Vitus Azeem, Executive Director of the Ghana Integrity Initiative, the local chapter of Transparency International, in a two-page press statement said: “The President’s removal of the former Attorney-General, Mr. Martin Amidu, and the resignation of his predecessor, Mrs Betty Mould-Iddrisu, leaves a lot of nagging questions in the minds of Ghanaians. “The President has a duty to come out with what he knows about these developments and the “Wayome” case that led to all these developments.” The statement posed six questions, demanding answers from the government: 1. Was Mr. Amidu’s misconduct his refusal to withdraw his allegations which he believes strongly in? OR 2. Was his misconduct his determination to pursue the “Wayome” case? 3. Was he removed in an attempt to kill the “Wayome” case? 4. Was Mrs. Iddrisu’s resignation ordered by the President? 5. Does this point to anything about her role in the “Wayome” case? 6. What is the truth surrounding the “Wayome” case? But speaking to Joy News’ Dzifa Bampoh on Thursday, Okudzeto Ablakwa said linking the dismissal of Martin Amidu and the resignation of Mrs Betty Mould-Iddrisu to the Woyome saga, as portrayed by GII, is “most unfortunate”. “First of all, the Ghana Integrity Initiative proceeds quite hastily and in a premature manner. As we speak, a report has not been presented and we do not know what the full facts of this matter are.” He said the president has indicated time and time again that he will not spare any member of his government to be implicated in the payment of huge judgement debt to businessman Alfred Agbesi Woyome. Mr Ablakwa also indicated that persons crying foul and pushing the government to get to the bottom of the case are, ironically, the same people using the courts to thwart government’s effort. “Unfortunately those who are very loudly insisting that this matter should be investigated to its logical conclusion have gone to the court seeking an injunction on the investigations by the EOCO. They don’t want the EOCO to investigate this case.” He also said the former Attorney General, Martin Amidu has to date not supplied the name of the minister he alluded to in his ‘explosive statement’ that cost him his job, and neither has he spoken about the allegations he raised in that statement. He called on all to exercise “patience” as the government works to unravel circumstances leading to the payment of the judgement debt to Alfred Woyome. Woyome is said to have been paid about GHS51 million in judgment debts from a suit he instituted against the state for alleged wrongful termination of contract.