Former Attorney-General and Minister for Justice, Godfred Yeboah Dame, has dismissed allegations by businessman Richard Jakpa in the controversial ambulance trial involving Finance Minister, Dr Cassiel Ato Forson.
In a statement to the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) on Monday, October 6, 2025, Mr Dame described Jakpa’s complaint as “baseless,” “sour grapes,” and “a desperate ploy to obstruct justice.”
He insisted, “I did not fabricate any evidence led in that criminal trial. I have not been shown any piece of evidence adduced in the matter, either by the prosecution or the defence, which is alleged to be fabricated by me.”
Mr Dame explained that the allegation was based on “a secret recording of a telephone conversation between himself and me on March 26, 2024.”
But he clarified, “That telephone conversation actually took place on April 9, 2024, and not March 26, 2024, as he alleges.
“I am unable to respond to an allegation based on an alleged conversation on 26 March 2024 since no conversation took place between us on that day.”
He said by the time of that call, “the prosecution had long filed and made available to the defence, and even gone ahead to tender in evidence all the documents it sought to rely on.”
He added that his only reason for calling Jakpa was “to discuss the possibility of adjourning proceedings for that day since I had to finish up preparations for an international arbitration hearing in London.”
Mr Dame said Mr Jakpa’s complaint was motivated by personal resentment.
“This complaint by Richard Jakpa is just sour grapes as he felt aggrieved by my refusal to yield to his representations, in those meetings with Justice Kulendi, for me to discontinue his prosecution.”
He said all his interactions with Jakpa occurred either “inside the courtroom or at the residence of Supreme Court Justice Yonny Kulendi,” stressing that “there would have been no ‘Dame–Jakpa’ without Justice Kulendi.”
The former Attorney-General cited the High Court ruling of June 6, 2024, which dismissed similar claims.
He quoted, “After listening to the recording … there is no actual evidence that the Attorney-General as the prosecutor has behaved in such an egregious manner that the 1st Accused/Applicant’s right to a fair trial is in jeopardy.”
Mr Dame argued that the CID lacked jurisdiction to revisit issues already ruled on by the court.
“The instant complaint seeks to relitigate issues already adjudicated upon by the High Court, Accra. The matters in issue have become res judicata.”
He concluded, “The allegation of fabrication of evidence is totally baseless and springs only from the fertile imagination of Richard Jakpa.”
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