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Outspoken NPP Member of Parliament for Assin North, Hon Kennedy Agyapong, staged a dramatic walk-out from the studios of an Accra-based private radio over an issue that was indirectly related to the Woyome scandal. It all started when the NPP MP contributing to discussions on JoyFM�s News Analysis programme �Newsfile�, asked for more heads to roll following the arrest of businessman Alfred Agbesi Woyome, a co-opted member of the Volta Regional Executive of the NDC and a former Vice Honorary Consul of Austria to Ghana, the Chief State Attorney, Mr Nerquaye-Tetteh and Director of Legal Services at the Ministry of Finance, Paul Asimenu. The Assin North MP made a strong case for the arrest and trial of some NDC bigwigs and called for the immediate resignation of Chief of Staff, John Martey-Newman; Deputy Attorney-General, Ebo Barton-Odro and the Finance Minister, Dr. Kwabena Duffuor for various roles played in the controversial Alfred Woyome judgment debt saga. He alleged the infamous judgment debt totaling GhC51 million awarded the NDC financier was orchestrated by a �whole syndicate� that goes beyond the persons cited in the Economic and Organised Crimes Office (EOCO) interim report and prayed the EOCO to come out with the full list immediately. Though EOCO's Interim Report revealed that the Chief State Attorney, Mr. Nerquaye-Tetteh�s wife, received GHC 400,000 from Mr Woyome, the NPP MP alleged there exists a �Castle Account� and a �GBC Account� (Ghana Broadcasting Corporation). Of the GBC Account, the Assin-North MP, who is also a member of the Parliamentary Select Committee on Communications, claimed it was used to launder an alleged GHC5 million. According to him, the NDC MP for Sene, Hon Twumasi Appiah, who is the Chairman of the Committee, had informed him earlier in the week that parliament received complaints from GBC on the account and that parliament was going to sit to investigate the veracity of the allegations in the coming days.