The Office of the Attorney General issued a stern response to a post attributed to Franklin Cudjoe, the founder and CEO of IMANI, which has been circulating in the public domain.

The spokesperson of the Attorney-General, Wilberforce Mensah, described Mr Cudjoe’s statement as untrue.

According to Mr Wilberforce Mensah, in the case of Daniel Yao Domelovo (2019/2020), Charlotte Osei (2017/2018), Martin Amidu (2020) and the SALL issue which happened during the 2020 election, Mr. Dame was not even the Attorney General at the time of the alleged incident, further undermining the credibility of the accusations.

Mr Cudjoe criticised the Attorney-General's management of prominent cases, including those concerning SALL, the Assin North MP Gyakye Quayson, and Minority Leader Ato Forson, in both a Facebook post and a subsequent interview on Citi TV's The Big Issue.

Specifically, the post accused the Attorney General of providing illiberal and politically divisive advice to an autocratic executive, citing examples such as the SALL issue, Daniel Yao Domelovo, Charlotte Osei, James Quayson, Martin Amidu, Ato Forson, and others.

In the interview, the Attorney General's office questioned the credibility of the post, stating "that being a think tank does not give one the license to make unsubstantiated claims."

The Attorney General emphasised "the importance of research as a fundamental aspect of any serious think tank, implying that the post lacked sufficient evidence to support its assertions."

Read the transcript from the interview below;

“The Office of the Attorney General has come across a post attributed to the founder and CEO of Imani, Franklin Cudjoe, which is being circulated in the public domain. If indeed he truly authored that post then
I say this with the greatest respect that simply because you are a think tank does not mean you should just say anything that you think is true.

A basic foundation of any serious think tank is research. To make the emphatic statement that the attorney general has been, according to him, “legendary in giving the most illiberal and politically divisive advice to a willing autocratic executive as far as the liberties of persons they disrespect and dislike is concerned-“ is most unfortunate.

In supporting his claim he makes reference to “SALL, Domelevo, Charlotte Osei, James Quayson, Martin Amidu, Ato Forson and others he’s yet to discover.”

Let it be clear that the Honourable Attorney General, Godfred Dame, has not produced any such advice on ANY of the persons mentioned. I challenge the author to produce any such advice authored by Honourable Godfred Yeboah Dame. Some of the names mentioned are being prosecuted for some offences that the Office believes are fit on proper charges to be preferred based on the facts.

On the Daniel Yao Domelovo for instance Mr. Dame was not even the ag at the time. The bottom line is that no such advice on any of the persons named can be provided because nothing of the sort exists and Mr. Cudjoe evidently got it wrong. For his own credibility sake and the credibility of the think tank which he represents he ought to unreservedly retract the comment and accordingly issue an apology.