Betty Mould- Iddrisu joins NDC race

• Posted on October 24, 2014October 24, 2014
• by Nana Kwesi Coomson
• Comment

Former Attorney General and Minister for Justice, Betty Mould- Iddrisu, may be contesting the position of the National Vice Chairperson of the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC).

Posters and banners indicating Mould-Iddrisu’s intentions have been put up in parts of Accra, including the East Legon residential area.

She is likely to face stiff opposition from some of the known faces in the party.

Some of the party faithful that have expressed interest in the same position are, Danny Annan, former CEO of Accra Hearts of Oak and Harry Zakour, a businessman.The rest are Alhaji Sinare and the former minister of education Lee Ocran.

The former Attorney General was once tipped to be the running mate to the late Prof. John Mills in the run-up to the 2008 elections.

She was made Attorney General and Minister for Justice when the NDC won that election.

However, Betty Mould- Iddrisu resigned from her position after the details of the payment of controversial judgement debt to NDC financier, Alfred Agbesi Woyome became public.

She had been under pressure from the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) and some Ghanaians for her reckless handling of the payment of over GH¢51 million to the businessman.

DAILY GUIDE learnt that Ms Mould-Iddrisu may soon make an appearance at the judgement debt commission for approving dodgy payments to undeserved people and companies in the name of judgement debt.

Her colleague former Attorney General, Martin A.K. Amidu, recently asked the judgement debt Sole-Commissioner, Justice Yaw Apau, to determine whether it was lawful for Ms Mould-Iddrisu to decide a settlement with Yakubu Kasule, owner of Gbewaa Civil Engineering Limited, in a case against the government.

Mr. Amidu is insisting that it was irregular for an Attorney General to enter into terms of settlement with Yakubu Kasule and his company when all the cases involved were not consolidated before the
action.

The commission is therefore expected to invite Betty to explain her side of the story on the numerous suspected fraudulent payments which a Supreme Court Justice had described as ‘create, loot and share enterprise’.