Dame Warns Dafeamekpor Over False Claims

Godfred Yeboah Dame

 

Former Attorney General and Minister for Justice, Godfred Yeboah Dame, has issued a strong warning to the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Member of Parliament for South Dayi, Rockson-Nelson Dafeamekpor to stop peddling reckless falsehoods against his person.

Mr. Dame, in a notice to the MP which was also copied to the Speaker of Parliament and the leadership of the House, noted that ordinarily he would have treated the MP’s claims with the contempt they deserve since the MP and functionaries of the NDC “have gained distinct notoriety for constantly peddling falsehoods about my person.”

However, he indicated that the imputation of extravagance, improvidence and recklessness conveyed by the MP’s statements compelled him to write and expose the falsity of the statement the MP made.

Mr. Dafeamekpor, speaking on TV3’s Key Point on February 22, 2025, claimed that Mr. Dame during his time as Attorney General had as many as 15 soldiers assigned to him as personal security.

He further claimed that the soldiers used two separate Landcruisers in accompanying the former AG to functions, impugning frugality on his part.

But Mr. Dame, in his warning to the MP, refuted the allegations made against him and clarified that at no point in time in his eight-year public service, between 2017 and 2025, did he have more than one bodyguard.

“At no point in time did I have more than one bodyguard sitting in a vehicle I used. At no point in time did I have a Landcruiser or any other brand of vehicle following me with bodyguards. I never had a military convoy,” Mr. Dame pointed out.

He also clarified that as Deputy Attorney General, he was assigned one bodyguard following an assessment of the security risks around him.

“Following my appointment as the substantive Attorney-General and Minister for Justice on 5th March, 2021, I continued with the same [one] bodyguard to the end of my tenure on 6th January, 2025. I had the benefit of one police dispatch rider who was assigned to the Office during the era of my predecessor, Ms. Gloria Akuffo. I am aware that the current Attorney-General also uses a police dispatch rider,” Mr. Dame asserted.

The former AG also pointed out that “There was never a deployment of more than one security officer for my close body protection nor an assignment of military men in 2 Landcruisers, front and back, as you put it. The allegations by you are clearly a product of your fertile imagination and highlight your skill at fabricating facts, a tendency most unworthy of a leader of the Majority in Parliament.”

Mr. Dame, giving the context in which Mr. Dafeamekpor claimed to be making the malicious statements concerning him (to show the pressure the lifestyle of public officers) places on the public purse, noted that throughout his public service, he stayed in one of his private properties which he acquired long before his initial appointment as Deputy Attorney General.

“For your information, I never made a claim for payment of any money by the State in lieu of the provision of residential accommodation. Further, I never used any government vehicle for my official functions during the week in Accra. All vehicles used by me in Accra for my official functions were privately-owned. The only time I used a government vehicle to attend to my official work was when I had to travel out of Accra, which was rare,” Mr. Dame further pointed out.

Mr. Dame, therefore, called on Mr. Dafeamekpor to totally retract the falsehoods contained in his statement using the same platform on which he made them.

“I hereby serve you notice that a future publication of the same or similar falsehoods by your good self will result in an institution of legal proceedings for punitive damages for defamation together with costs of litigation,” he said.

He added that “I have taken the liberty to copy the Speaker of Parliament and the leadership of the House of Parliament in this letter to advert his attention to the dishonourable conduct engaged in by your good self outside the House of Parliament.”

BY Gibril Abdul Razak

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