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Association of lawyers
asked Mumuni to stay on
BY Abdul Salam Sule, Ghanadot
Accra, March 19, Ghanadot - The saga of Alhaji Mohammed Mumuni,
the Foreign Affairs Minister, seems unending with each passing
day as a group calling itself the Association of Lawyers in
search of True Democracy has asked him not to resign.
The position by the group is contrary to that of the Alliance
for Accountable Governance (AFAG) which has called for the
resignation of Alhaji Mumuni.
According to the lawyers, the furor on his nomination, vetting
and confirmation was needless because Alhaji Mumuni is fit and
proper with high moral pedigree.
In a press statement issued in Accra, the group alleged that,
the vetting process has more to do with settling political
scores than serving the purpose for which it has been
institutionalised.
They recounted issues raised by AFAG against Mumuni's
appointment. AFAG raised among other claims that, there is in
existence an Auditor General's report which made adverse
findings of financial malfeasance against Alhaji Mumuni when he
was the Minister for Employment and Social Welfare from the year
1997-2001.
The lawyers stated that, the alleged report which was audited by
Baffour Awuah and Associates is spurious and can not be
credible.
They noted that, "the
report was flawed on the basis that it cannot be report in the
eye of the law since due process associated with auditing was
not followed".
According to the lawyers, the claim by the auditors that Mumuni
was written to through the Speaker of Parliament at the time the
report was conducted was exposed as a blatant lie. They noted
that, the late Speaker of Parliament, Hon Peter Ala Adjetey
denied in a memo under his hand, dated July 14, 2004, to Alhaji
Mumuni who was then a Member of Parliament that the auditors
never contacted Mumuni through parliament.
"There is therefore the smell of political mischief in this
forensic report and any reliance on it by anyone to further a
cause is non-starter", the lawyers said.
Ghanadot
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