Former Attorney-General and Minister for Justice, Godfred Yeboah Dame, has raised questions over the circumstances surrounding the successful appeal of former Microfinance and Small Loans Centre (MASLOC) Chief Executive Officer, Sedina Tamakloe-Attionu, following her acquittal by the Court of Appeal.
In a statement, Mr. Dame disputed attempts to attribute the outcome of the appeal to actions taken during his tenure as Attorney-General, insisting that the sequence of events raises important questions.
According to him, although the appeal is said to have been filed in 2024 while he was Attorney-General, no notice of the appeal came to the attention of his office during that period.
He claimed that state attorneys informed the Court of Appeal that they had not been served with the appeal documents when the matter was called for hearing.
Mr. Dame further argued that the alleged filing of the appeal in 2024 was of little consequence because no substantive steps were taken by the appellant until after the National Democratic Congress (NDC) assumed office.
He maintained that during his tenure, the state’s focus was on securing Sedina Tamakloe-Attionu’s extradition to Ghana to face trial.
The former Attorney-General also disclosed that lawyers for the former MASLOC Chief Executive only applied for leave to file written submissions in February 2026, after the change in government.
According to him, it was only after the appeal had been set in motion that Sedina Tamakloe-Attionu was extradited to Ghana.
Mr. Dame further questioned why no reference was made to the pending appeal during the extradition proceedings, describing the omission as one that casts doubt on the circumstances surrounding the appeal.
