Former Attorney-General Godfred Yeboah Dame has hit back at the National Democratic Congress (NDC), accusing the Mahama government of engineering the acquittal of former MASLOC CEO Sedina Tamakloe Attionu and systematically ending corruption trials involving government cronies.
In a press release on Friday, July 31, Dame said the Court of Appeal’s decision to free Tamakloe was “consistent with the predilection of the Attorney-General to discontinue all cases which were being prosecuted against leading members and affiliates of the NDC”.
He described the development as “the closest Ghana has been to a re-enactment of the Woyome Scandal” and warned that Ghana’s justice system was degenerating into “two sets of law for two sets of people.”
Mr Dame rejected claims by NDC communicators that the Akufo-Addo administration was responsible for the acquittal.
“No notice of an appeal filed by Sedina Attionu in 2024 came to the attention of the Office of Attorney-General in my tenure,” he stated.
He said state attorneys told the Court of Appeal in April 2026 that they “had not been served with a notice of the appeal” and only became aware of the case after the court directed parties to file written submissions.
“Even if an appeal was filed by Sedina Attionu in 2024, it is completely immaterial because no further step was taken by her as the accused/appellant until the NDC came back to power,” Dame argued.
The former AG said his duty was to ensure Tamakloe served the 10-year sentence imposed by the High Court in April 2024 after her conviction for causing GH¢90 million in financial loss to the state.
He disclosed that he initiated extradition proceedings and cited the Order of the United States District Court of Nevada on 9th April, 2026, which “confirmed the extradition and committed Ms. Attionu to custody pending her extradition by the Secretary of State.”
Mr Dame added that throughout the extradition process from July 2024 to April 2026, “no mention was made of an appeal filed by Sedina Attionu in 2024” not even in court processes filed by her lawyers in the US.
According to him, Sedina Tamakloe’s lawyers only obtained leave to file written submissions on 10th February 2026 and filed them on 12th February 2026, weeks after he had left office.
He said state attorneys were “surprised” when they were served on 16th February 2026 because they had no prior notice of the proceedings, adding that the Republic eventually filed its opposition on 9th April 2026.
The Court of Appeal subsequently ordered that missing volumes of the record be provided to the Republic.
He added that on 17th June 2026, a new panel presided over by Justice JA Ankamah sat on the matter for the first time and adjourned for judgment, which resulted in Tamakloe’s acquittal and discharge.
The former Attorney General accused his successor of pursuing and prosecuting opposition figures while discontinuing cases against NDC members.
“A justice system in which political friends face no accountability and time-honoured rules are compromised for their comfort whilst political opponents are treated like second-class citizens reflects poorly on the State,” he said.