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Godfred Yeboah Dame fires back at Thaddeus Sory
Former Attorney General, Godfrey Yeboah Dame, has fired back at his colleague lawyer, Thaddeus Sory in what he describes as use of abusive and offensive language against him.
In a long write-up on social media platform Facebook, Godfred Dame wrote, “Greetings Thaddeus Sory, Esq.,
Your predilection to comment on the slightest thing I do or say is not lost on the public.”
“For some time now, you have been expending enormous energy, time and resources to launch public attacks on me in relation to my work. I live in your mind rent free. Indeed, your obsession with Godfred Dame is bewildering and needs healing,” he noted.
By Edem Mensah-Tsotorme
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He writes
Greetings Thaddeus Sory, Esq.,
Your predilection to comment on the slightest thing I do or say is not lost on the public. For some time now, you have been expending enormous energy, time and resources to launch public attacks on me in relation to my work. I live in your mind rent free. Indeed, your obsession with Godfred Dame is bewildering and needs healing.
The abusive and offensive language you employ is deplored by most decent minded legal practitioners, and in clear contravention of the rules of professional conduct and etiquette governing the legal profession, coming from one with considerable standing at the Bar. I leave the authorities that regulate the legal profession and are responsible for upholding standards of professional conduct to judge. I have always ignored the write-ups you have produced about me. For the first time, however, and hopefully it will be the last, I am compelled to correct a few things you have got fundamentally wrong. I will ignore the rest of the falsehood in your write-up as part of the vile propaganda you regularly engage in against me, which all can see through.
1. You state at paragraph 22, that, I “wear [my] record of never losing a case as a badge of honour”, in my tenure as Attorney-General. You quipped “what has changed?”
Clearly, you are wrong. The allegation is mischievous and only continues a series of falsehoods often produced by lawyers of the NDC ilk to feed their foot soldiers. The record will show that as Attorney-General, I publicly touted some significant losses suffered by my office in very important matters in the Superior Courts of Judicature as a symbol of judicial independence in Ghana. On 11th September, 2023, at the Annual Bar Conference in Cape Coast, I had this to say:
“When I look back at certain cases whose outcomes I consider undesirable, regardless of my own views on the questions being judged in them, I come to the conclusion that, what we have in this country is a fiercely independent Judiciary in which all of us should take pride that, an aggrieved citizen can go to a court of law and challenge anyone, including decisions of the President and Parliament, and be confident that the Court will give a decision without fear or favour. I refer to recent decisions of the Supreme Court in the Ghana Centre for Democratic Development & 8 others vrs. The Attorney-General, Ezuame Mannan vrs. The Attorney-General and vrs. The Attorney-General.
Again, on 9th September, 2024, at the Bar Conference in Kumasi, I proudly exhibited some of my losses.
“I can confidently say that I have been an Attorney-General in whose tenure the Judiciary has demonstrated complete independence and strength through decisions it gives in cases involving the State. In both civil and criminal jurisdictions, my Office has had many victories, but we have also experienced some adverse decisions. Examples are the decisions of the Supreme Court in Ghana Centre for Democratic Development & 8 others vrs. The Attorney-General (the removal of former Auditor-General, Mr. Dormelovo from office), Appiagyei Atuah vrs. The Attorney-General (the Imposition of Restrictions in Covid-19 case) and Ezuame Mannan vrs. the Attorney-General and the Speaker of Parliament (the Narcotics Control Commission Law case).
You would notice that most of these defeats were by a unanimous verdict of the Supreme Court. I will add to my losses the controversial 2-1 majority decision of the Court of Appeal in Republic vrs. Cassiel Ato Forson & 2 Others, whose correctness the current Attorney-General prevented the Supreme Court from assessing, by swiftly filing a notice of withdrawal when the NDC assumed power in January, 2025.
2. I note that in life, when one enjoys tremendous success in a field of endeavour or an office, there is the tendency to assume that one experienced no failure on any occasion. You and the NDC may thus be forgiven to think that I “never lost a case as Attorney-General”.
3. You state at paragraph 23 of your write-up that you “once asked: how did your [referring to me] legal acumen suddenly improve just because you became Attorney-General?”
Oh Thaddeus! Doth ye have such short memory? Have you forgotten that in the only full trial of a case you and I happened to be on opposing sides between 2007 and 2009 when you were at Dery & Co., you lost miserably (potoo, as we say in Ghanaian parlance) when judgment was delivered by Ofosu-Quartey J. in May, 2009? Unperturbed, you led your clients to pursue an appeal at the Court of Appeal and lost again, in a judgment delivered on 25th July, 2013. Was I the Attorney-General in those years?
A person who cursorily reads your write-up will be permitted to infer that you suffer pangs of jealousy. This, I cannot help. I can only urge you not to be quick to boast of your “legal acumen”, as you put it, or soil the hard-earned reputation of your fellow lawyers.
4. When as Deputy Attorney-General, I valiantly conducted many dangerous cases much to the chagrin of the NDC, including a recovery of part of the Woyome ill-gotten cash, was I the Attorney-General? For your reminder, part of the Woyome cash (the “balance” as we say in Ghana) is outstanding. Use your “legal acumen” to assist the current Attorney-General to recover with interest, instead of expending time and energy in coming to the Supreme Court every day to monitor how cases affecting Torkonoo CJ are going, even when you are not counsel in it.
5. Fortunately, the “legal acumen” you claimed I found when I was appointed Attorney-General was not limited to the domestic territories of Ghana. I deployed same to the successful defence of Ghana’s interests in many international arbitration cases and foreign courts, saving the nation billions of United States Dollars. In point of fact, in my tenure as Attorney-General, Ghana emerged victorious in all the international arbitrations my humble self and my able deputies led the Office to conduct without the aid of foreign counsel. In tribute to Ghana’s legal talent, I say that in the last international arbitration conducted solely by myself and my colleague Deputy Attorneys-General, which culminated in an award delivered on 18th November, 2024, Ghana’s case was roundly upheld with costs of about US$2.2 Million in her favour.
6. In all humility, I say, as a testament to the strength of Ghana’s judicial system, that the record of the consistent success I enjoyed in the courts in innumerable high-profile cases I conducted between 2003 and 2007 (as a relatively junior lawyer) and between 2009 and 2017 ( when I was not the Attorney-General but a lawyer who was a member of the opposition), is there for all to verify. It is this independence of Ghana’s judiciary that I see is threatened by recent happenings in Ghana, and which I seek to protect. You and the NDC’s desperation to churn out a false narrative now will not change the situation.
7. I have never said that you have not represented NPP clients. I am aware of your association with NPP clients particularly, when you were a junior to Mr. Ambrose Dery in Dery & Co. The irrefutable point I make now is that Mr. Tsikata was President Mahama’s lawyer in the last election petition in 2020. You are the current Speaker of Parliament’s lawyer and double as lawyer for a person who is aggrieved by judgments delivered by the Chief Justice against him in his attempt to recover some gargantuan money from Ecobank. If you do not find it “incongruous” that the lawyers of the heads of two arms of government have teamed up to remove the lady Chief Justice of the Republic from office, I cannot fault you.
You assert your duty to “represent anyone who retains” you. Do I not owe the same duty?
This, I hope will be my only and ever response to you. I will continue to ignore all your provocative comments. However, knowing your obsession with me, I am sure it will draw more abuse from you.
As they say, “when Godfred Dame coughs, the whole NDC catches a cold”.
24th May, 2025
Godfred Yeboah Dame,
Dame & Partners,
Accra.
A 29-year-old tricycle rider, Naah Mashood, has been sentenced to 14 years imprisonment with hard labour for defiling a three-year-old girl at Tiegber in the Wa Municipality.
The Domestic Violence and Victims Support Unit (DOVVSU) of the Upper West Regional Police Command arrested the suspect on February 24, 2026, following a complaint lodged by the victim’s mother.
According to police, the convict, who had been contracted by the parents to pick the victim to and from school, lured her to an isolated location on February 23, 2026, and sexually assaulted her inside his tricycle, popularly known as ‘Camboo’.
After thorough investigations, he was arraigned before the Wa District Magistrate Court and subsequently stood trial at the Wa High Court.
On October 30, 2026, His Lordship Justice Osei-Wusu found him guilty of defilement and sentenced him to 14 years imprisonment with hard labour.
The Upper West Regional Police Command has commended the officers involved in the investigation and prosecution, as well as all persons who contributed to ensuring justice was served.
The Command urged parents and guardians to keep a close eye on their children and ensure their safety at all times, and encouraged the public to report suspected cases of child abuse and defilement to the nearest police station or DOVVSU office for prompt action.
It further assured the public of its commitment to protecting children and ensuring perpetrators of sexual offences are brought to justice.
By Edem Mensah-Tsotorme
The Ashanti Regional Police Command has announced the arrest of three suspected members of a criminal syndicate believed to be behind a series of robberies targeting bank customers in Kumasi and its environs.
On October 31, 2026, at about 11:30 pm, an IGP’s Special Team, comprising personnel from the Anti-Armed Robbery Unit of the CID Headquarters and the Accra Regional Police Intelligence Directorate (PID), acting on intelligence, embarked on an operation to apprehend the suspects.
The operation led to the arrest of two Nigerian nationals, Aboy Promise, 30, and Favour Uwalaka, 45, at a hotel at Moshie Zongo. A search of their rooms resulted in the recovery of GH¢1,600.00, assorted mobile phones, a Royal motorbike and a master key used to gain unauthorized access to victims’ vehicles to steal cash.
During interrogation, the suspects admitted their involvement in the robberies and mentioned two accomplices, Chinedu, alias Alhaji, and Kingsley, alias KC.
Preliminary investigations indicate that the syndicate monitored banking premises, identified customers who withdrew substantial sums of money and trailed them before attacking and robbing them. They also broke into unattended vehicles belonging to bank customers using a master key to steal cash kept inside.
The suspects subsequently led the police team to another hotel at Dechemso, a suburb of Kumasi, where Kingsley, alias KC, 35, also a Nigerian national, was arrested.
The remaining accomplice, Chinedu, alias Alhaji, is currently on the run. The Command is appealing to the public to volunteer credible information that could lead to his arrest. Anyone with information on his whereabouts is urged to report to the nearest police station or contact the police through emergency numbers 191, 112 or the toll-free MTN and Telecel line 18555.
The suspects admitted to robbing a victim of GH¢15,000.00 at Asokore Mampong on Tuesday, October 27, 2026, after the victim had withdrawn money from Kwamang Rural Bank. They also admitted to similar robberies at the Atonsu branch of Fidelity Bank, the Ahodwo branch of Access Bank and other locations within Kumasi and its environs.
The three arrested suspects have since been handed over to the Ashanti Regional Police Command and are assisting with investigations.
The Command has cautioned bank customers to remain vigilant, be alert to suspicious persons around banking premises and avoid leaving cash or other valuables unattended in vehicles, while commending the public for their continued cooperation and assuring residents of its commitment to combating robbery and other criminal activities in the region.
By Edem Mensah-Tsotorme
