The Attorney-General’s Office has advised the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Menzgold, Nana Appiah Mensah, to officially write to seek assistance to claim a $39 million judgment allegedly awarded his company in Dubai.
Similarly, lawyer for some of the affected customers of Menzgold, Amanda Clinton, has also said the businessman would have to provide proof of having been awarded that money for such an assistance to be offered, as it is not just about him, but the thousands of people who had been affected by the closure of his business.
Mr Mensah, popularly known as NAM 1, at a news conference in Accra last Monday, pleaded with the Attorney-General and Minister of Justice to help him retrieve $39 million being the value of gold he supplied to Horizon Royal Diamond, a Dubai-based company.
Reacting to his claims in an interview with the Daily Graphic, a Deputy Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, Mr Joseph D. Kpemka, said: “We have not received official communication to that effect from Mr Mensah.”
He said a press conference was not the medium of communication for such request.
Mr Kpemka said: “The appropriate way for him is to write to the Attorney-General detailing the kind of assistance he needs. He should indicate the nature of assistance he needs as a citizen of this country,” and stressed that all citizens had a right to be heard.
Mr Kpemka declined to answer whether the government was in a position to assist or not on grounds that “we are yet to receive and examine the kind of assistance he needs.”
