Lawyers for businessman Alfred Woyome Thursday in court produced documents to validate his claim of 51 million cedis judgment debt against government. The lawyers presented the documents in court to challenge the testimony given by the first prosecution witness Mangua Ghanney, of the legal department of the Ministry of Finance. Madam Mangua Ghanney in her testimony told the court a letter from the attorney general to the finance minister for payment of the controversial judgment debt did not come with a contract. But on Thursday, lead lawyer for Mr. Woyome, Sarfo Buabeng produced copies of six different letters and correspondence between the Ministry of Finance and the Attorney General validating the payment. The first exhibit was a letter from the Finance Minister to the AG to substantiate the basis for payment. The second letter was a response from the AG to the Finance Minister explaining the basis for the payment. The AG’s letter specified that Mr. Woyome’s claim was for project financial engineering fees. Another letter from the AG was also tendered in evidence. According to Mr. Sarfo Buabeng the AG wrote another letter after the default judgment to the ministry insisting that Mr. Woyome be paid the money. Mr. Woyome’s lawyer produced what he said was the original copy of the default judgment to the witness. But, Madam Ghanney denied ever seeing the original copy insisting she only received the court payment terms and figures. At this point Mr. Woyome’s lawyers produced another letter from the ministry of finance signed by the former acting chief director to lawyers for Woyome about payment terms. But State Prosecutors objected to the tendering of the letter in evidence questioning its genuineness. They demanded that the person who signed it appear in person even though the state’s witness recognized the signature to be that of the then chief director. But the judge overruled the objection. The last two documents produced were letters written by the prosecution witness herself correcting figures in the default judgment before the payment of the 51 million cedis. She admitted those letters could have been written by her. Mr. Buabeng asked Madam Ghanney whether she wrote a memorandum summarizing why Mr. Woyome should be paid the money. She accepted writing the memo, however when asked to produce that document she declined, insisting they could request for them from the relevant authorities in the ministry. After several exchanges, the Judge Ajet-Nasam directed the witness to produce the memo at the next adjourned date which is the 22nd of June. Meanwhile, Alfred Woyome is back in court on the 19th and 20th of this month for the civil suit against him.