{"id":177929,"date":"2024-08-05T03:13:07","date_gmt":"2024-08-05T01:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-attorney-general-says-court-decision-acquitting-ato-forson-unfair-vows-to-appeal\/"},"modified":"2024-08-05T03:13:07","modified_gmt":"2024-08-05T01:13:07","slug":"ghana-attorney-general-says-court-decision-acquitting-ato-forson-unfair-vows-to-appeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-attorney-general-says-court-decision-acquitting-ato-forson-unfair-vows-to-appeal\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: Attorney-General Says Court Decision Acquitting Ato Forson &#8216;Unfair&#8217;, Vows to Appeal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\"><em>The prosecution of Ato Forson had been one of the prioritized cases handled by the AG himself, and it has also been one of the cases that caused his reputation to be put in question<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">The Attorney-General Godfred Dame says the Court of Appeal decision to acquit and discharge Minority leader Ato Forson and co-accused Richard Jakpa in the ambulance purchase trial is regrettable.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">Reacting to the ruling of the Court which was delivered today, Dame said his Office finds it &#8220;grossly unfair&#8221; and plans to&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202407310031.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The prosecution of Ato Forson had been one of the prioritized cases handled by the AG himself, and it has also been one of the cases that caused his reputation to be put in question The Attorney-General Godfred Dame says the Court of Appeal decision to acquit and discharge Minority leader Ato Forson and co-accused [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":177930,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[49227,258,256,8992,34470,7873,6185,7430,49228,4508,4509,257,254,15329,9639],"class_list":["post-177929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-acquitting","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-appeal","tag-ato","tag-attorneygeneral","tag-court","tag-decision","tag-forson","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-unfair","tag-vows"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177929\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}