Editor in Chief of the New Crusading Guide Abdul Malik Kweku Baako has replied embattled businessman Alfred Woyome's 'Eka fuor di di' comment.
Mr Woyome in an interview with Joy News said in Twi that 'Eka fuor di di' which literally translates 'A debtor eats'.
This comment from Woyome seems not to have gone down well with a lot of Ghanaians as he is expected to pay back a ¢51.2m judgement debt he owes the state.
The Supreme Court said the ¢51.2m judgement debt was wrongfully paid him in 2009.
The Supreme Court on June 27, 2019, ordered the Attorney-General to sell properties of Woyome to defray a ¢51.2m debt he owes the state.
Mr Woyome before the verdict of the African Court where he filed a suit against the State claiming that his human rights have been abused said if the government wins the case he was ready to sit with them and scheduled a payment plan.
Mr Woyome feels the government has been unfair to him in terms of ways of payment and needs a breathing space at least to settle issues well with them.
"I am ready to sit with the government to schedule the payment plan if they win the case in Arusha, I have never told the government I am not willing to pay, so I don't get why they are rushing to sell properties to defray the cost"
"Does the debtor not eat? (Eka four ndi di anaa), we can sit down then, I bring a payment plan"
Kweku Baako responding to this on Joy FM NewsFile said a debtor is allowed to eat but only not all types of food.
He said: I said on several occasions that Woyome can run but can't hide and I heard him saying the debtor eats (Eka four di di) that is true but if you owe you don't eat palm nut soup (Abenkwan).
Perhaps Mr Baako used palm nut soup because of the cost involved in preparing that and is only telling Mr Woyome to do the needful by paying the debt he owes Ghana and stop saying that the government is on his necks.
African Court ruling
Alfred Agbesi Woyome has lost his case at the African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights in Tanzania.
The court unanimously dismissed his case against the Republic of Ghana.
The court said Woyome’s right to non-discrimination, right to equalilty before the law, equal protection before the law and his right to be heard by an impartial tribunal had all not been violated.
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