Godfred Dame (L) Richard Jakpa (L)
Richard Jakpa, Director of Special Operations at the National Security, has petitioned the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service to urgently investigate allegations that former Attorney-General Godfred Yeboah Dame attempted to fabricate evidence during the trial of Dr Ato Forson and two others.
Jakpa, who was the third accused person in the high-profile ambulance procurement case involving then-Minority Leader Dr Cassiel Ato Forson, has stated that Godfred Dame misconducted himself when he allegedly solicited his co-operation to incriminate Ato Forson.
In a formal petition addressed to the Director of CID, Jakpa detailed that the then-A-G wanted him to “testify in a manner to incriminate the first accused, Dr Ato Forson, and to help fast-track the conclusion of the case.”
He alleged that the testimony used to incriminate Dr Ato Forson after he opened his defence led to a phone call placed to him by Godfred Yeboah Dame on March 26, 2024.
He said this happened when he was to appear in the High Court to continue with his evidence in chief regarding the witness statement he had filed.
“In the phone conversation between the then-Attorney General and me, which I have attached to this petition, he suggested that during cross-examination I testify not based on matters personally perceived and understood by me,” he stated.
Jakpa alleged that the former Attorney General had instead wanted him to base his defence on suggestions the A-G allegedly made to him, which were intended to skew his understanding of the issues in a way that would implicate Dr Ato Forson.
Jakpa alleged further that Godfred Yeboah Dame wanted him to further lie to the court, stating that he was not well by procuring a false excuse duty to that effect.
The former Attorney General, he said, made these suggestions to him during the purported telephone conversation.
“In that telephone conversation, Godfred Dame directly engaged me on the subject of the Letters of Credit (LCs) as an Attorney-General of the Republic of Ghana,” he stated in his petition.
He continued that Dame “stated how he thought I should answer questions regarding the Letters of Credit during cross-examination contrary to my honest understanding and knowledge of how Letters of Credit work.”
According to him, he disagreed with Dame’s legal machinations even though Dame insisted that it would not bear any risk to him.
AG told me I am collateral damage and that I will be acquitted at the end of the trial – Jakpa
“He further said he would be travelling out of the country and not able to be in court at the next adjourned date, and that I seek an adjournment from the court by getting an excuse duty from a hospital to the court that I was sick to allow him to be present in court before I proceed with my testimony,” he alleged.
According to Jakpa, he “declined this criminal, dishonest and unethical suggestion from him as an Attorney-General then.”
He stated that the alleged attempt by Godfred Dame for him to testify in a dishonest, wicked and without an iota of conscience to implicate Dr Ato Forson, in his view, constituted ‘fabrication of evidence’.
He, therefore, called on the CID to investigate Dame “to face the full consequence if found to be culpable because this is very necessary”
The petition, which was dated July 23, 2025, was formally signed by Richard Jakpa himself.
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