A senior law lecturer at the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA), Mr Ernest Kofi Abotsi has cast doubts about the efficacy of threats by the Public Accounts Committee to use the Inspector General of Police to haul Alfred Woyome before it over judgment debt paid him. According to Kofi Abotsi, although PAC may succeed in hauling the beleaguered business man before it through the power of arrest, it cannot force him to cooperate with the committee since he has the right not to incriminate himself. The Chairman of the PAC, Mr Albert Kan-Dapaah on Thursday vowed to exercise his powers to ensure that businessman Alfred Agbesi Woyome appears before the Committee. He said he will write to the Inspector General of Police, Paul Tawiah Quaye, to produce Mr Woyome before the Committee to respond to questions about a GH¢51.2 million judgement debt award he obtained under circumstances the government contends were fraudulent. Mr Woyome was subpoenaed to appear before PAC, Thursday after he had turned down two initial summons. The businessman has refused to appear before the PAC upon invitation, insisting that once he was already standing trial in respect of the matter, he could not reasonably be expected to speak to the matters outside court. And speaking in an interview with Joy New, Kofi Abotsi was of “…the opinion that the PAC ought to have gone to court to enforce the subpoena. Whenever quasi judiciary bodies are given the powers of a high court in respect of enforcing attendance through a subpoena and this is disrespected, the body is authorized to enforce it through the regular court.” According to him, even if the PAC is able to haul Mr Woyome before it through the power of arrest, it may not yield the desired benefits since Mr. Woyome has the right not to self-incriminate. Mr Abotsi stated the matter before PAC requires some sobriety and some introspection before it proceeds with its threat to use the IGP to haul the embattled businessman before it.