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OccupyGhana leader Kweku Segbefia has expressed disappointment with President Akufo-Addo for accepting Martin Amidu’s resignation.
He believes the move has a ripple effect on all other government institutions, as they may no longer have the recklessness to assert their independence from the executive.
“We believe that we have lost a unique opportunity to assert the independence of the Special Prosecutor’s Office. This would have set a very good precedent for all other officials in the future. ”
He claimed that, as a patriot, Mr. Amidu should have “kept his case”, as some government institutions such as the Auditor General’s department have done when they went to court to assert their independence from the executive.
“So why run with your tail between your legs when other independent bodies that felt this invaded have trampled on the executive rather than resigning?” I ask.
“This is the first time that we have established an office of the Special Prosecutor and that is why it was important for him to also fight his own fight, assert his own independence and push back the executive.”
By accepting Amidu’s resignation, Segbefia also believes that the president has prevented Ghanaians from getting to the bottom of the issues raised by the executive in Amidu’s resignation letter.
“We believe that they literally left him out of trouble because if the Presidency had refused to accept it, he would have been forced to come and really tell us about the problems that he seems to be expressing that are invading his independence, and we would have gotten to the bottom of the matter and then we would have decided what to do when the institutions that have some constitutional immunity against the interference of the executive are attacked as he claimed he did, ”he said.
Martin Amidu, among other complaints, accused the government of not guaranteeing the independence and freedom of his position in the execution of his constitutional mandate.
But during an interview with Joy News on Wednesday, the Occupy Ghana chief argued that the resignation of the former attorney general was a move in the wrong direction.
According to him, the voice of Martin Amidu could have laid the groundwork for establishing the freedom of other state institutions.
“We have lost a very good opportunity to affirm the independence of the Special Prosecutor’s Office. This would have set a very good precedent for all other officials in the future and now we have lost it, “he said.
