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After the Supreme Court ruling that Waterville Holdings Limited and ISOFOTON SA must refund the Judgement Debt monies wrongfully paid to them by the state, a member of the communication team for the main opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), Asamoah Gyamfi has found it surprising that President Mahama has now issued instructions to the A-G to prepare a writ to retrieve the judgment debt. He said that President Mahama is not committed to retrieving the monies from the two companies mentioned by the Supreme Court; in that it is more than a month since the court ruled that the judgment debts must be refunded to the government. Making his submission on Okay FM, he said that President Mahama is doing public relations gimmicks with the judgment debt recovery; stressing that the judgment debt was meant to create, loot and share the state funds among the NDC cronies. He averred that if the NDC government pursue the case to retrieve the monies, so many names will come up; adding that the statement from the Attorney General is in response to the Ghana Integrity Initiative report which advised the President to something about the judgment debts which the court had instructed to be refunded. He further hinted that any time the President is being criticized about it activities there is a press release to kill the issue without addressing it; in that when a Paramount Chief said that the Auditor�s General report must ensure that the judgment debts are retrieved, the President came out to defend with a statement that he has instructed the A-G to set up a committee to investigate and retrieve the monies from those who are involved. He hinted that it is the duty of Parliament and the judiciary to set a tribunal to collect the money after it has been written in the report of the Auditor�s General; reminding that the A-G cannot do it as the President sought to do because the constitution does not mandate it, indicating that President Mahama is doing public relations gimmicks with the judgment debt. The NPP communicator however feared that by now the companies mentioned to refund their judgment debt payment must have transferred their assets to other places unknown to the country which will make it difficult to retrieve the monies as the Supreme Court has ruled.