The businessman involved in the trial of the Minority Leader, Richard Jakpa, testified in the Accra High Court that he decided to confront the Attorney-General head-on after the court ruled against his submission of no case.

During cross-examination by the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), Jakpa stated that he felt betrayed and angered by the court's decision to reject his submission and order him to present his defense.

He expressed disappointment, claiming that the Attorney-General had not assured him of this outcome, especially after he had offered to be a prosecution witness for the state and added that after that ruling, I (Jakpa) said, ”There is a war between the two of us whether I am jailed or acquitted because you (A-G) are trying to jail me and take my liberty as an innocent citizen.”

He expressed that the Attorney-General had inflicted significant harm on him by causing him pain, ruining his business, damaging his international business connections, and tarnishing his reputation, undoing all his years of hard work.

Jakpa recounted confronting the Attorney-General at Justice Kulendi's residence after the court ruling, telling him that he felt unjustly deprived of his freedom by the Attorney-General's legal maneuvers.

He warned the Attorney-General that he would retaliate using his own methods. Following Jakpa's testimony, the DPP asked, “So all that you did with recording the A-G and bringing it out in the open was in furtherance of your declaration of war on him?.”

Mr. Jakpa disagreed with the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) but noted that if the Attorney-General had remained within the secure premises of Justice Kulendi's residence, where they usually met, such recordings would not have occurred.

“Because I cannot engage in any recording in my cousins (Justice Kulendi’s house, it will be a mark of disrespect and betrayal of family values,” he said.