Amidu, the president’s divorce and Jerry Rawlings’ shock in recent days

Opinions on Wednesday, November 18, 2020

Columnist: Raymond Archer

2020-11-18

“You go to war with the army you have, not the army you might want or wish to have later on.” Donald rumsfield

If you want to know the content of a book, first look at its title. When the president bought the book titled “Martin Alamisi Burns Kaiser Amidu,” it was clear or should have been clear that the story was going to be a remarkable cocktail of offbeat, seemingly eccentric, confident, sporadic, uncompromising, intelligent bullying. , very temperamental, intrepid, narcissistic and with a touch of betrayal.

In studies of the psychology of intelligence analysis, there is something called “perception bias.” To literally sum it up, it means something on the border of “your eyes see what your brain is thinking and not what you are actually looking at” or “If you wish for something that badly, your brain and your eyes conspire to make you see what you wish to see and not what you’re really looking at. “

For those who bought the president’s book in 2016 titled “President William Nana Addo Dankwah Akuffo-Addo”, you must have already realized that it bears a remarkable resemblance to the previous one: angry, uncompromising, narcissistic, I don’t care, bullying, brash, intimidating, state capture, corruption and a hint of treason.

Franklin Cujdoe of IMANI AFRICA captures it in the best way “CORRUPTION HAS DEFEATED AMIDU”

When Martin Amidu was hired by the president as the first head of the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP), many were the dancers and many were the ones who genuinely felt that Ghana’s ranking on the “Global Corruption Perception Index” Transparency International was going to read ZERO.

If you don’t believe me, look at who the president appointed as chairman of the PASB board. This is Linda Ofori from the local Transparency International Chapter, Ghana Integrity Initiative (GII). The current NPP Director of Communication, Yaw Boaben Asamoah, who issued a statement in response to Amidu, was once GII Executive Secretary until he was assigned to a project under the office of the late Vice President Aliu Mahama. Yaw did not return to GII, he was captured and JOINED THEM.

The excitement that Amidu’s appointment received did not last long, and the nation woke up to the anticlimax of a movie we had only just begun to watch.

But I told someone that the marriage between Amidu and the president will not last because the foundations on which the marriage revolved were weak, selfish, one-sided and very poorly represented. I said they don’t know Amidu.

By the very nature of Martin Amidu, he sees himself as very confident, independent, and smarter than the average Ghanaian. Martin does not work well under supervision, in fact he has to be the supervisor. Martin likes to get away with all or most of the time and when he doesn’t, he unleashes the wrath of his explosive rage. Don’t get me wrong, these aren’t bad traits, those are the traits you need from your Anti-Corruption Czar.

If you look at the history before Amidu’s appointment, he had damaged the NDC that he belonged to, broken ranks with them, backed his opponent who later became president. What most people don’t know is that Amidu maintained an unbreakable bond with NDC founder Jerry John Rawlings, who

Out of anger he had moved his campsite very close to the PNP to the chagrin of the NDC in the run-up to the 2016 election.
Like a beautiful woman, Jerry was showing NPP his beautiful thighs but not too much, the trick worked like magic, they couldn’t get enough.

Jerry Rawlings became the go-to person for advice, though most of his advice was not followed, clamored to have him in their company, and showered him with unsolicited visits, praise and praise.

For a moment, Rawlings was flattered by all this, it is what he wanted from the Kufour government, an opportunity to help shape the destiny of Ghana, that did not happen. It’s what he wanted from his own party, it didn’t happen the way he would have wanted (to put it right).

In the end, the NPP is even fighting over the corpse of Jerry Rawlings because even in his death they still believe he possesses the political magic wand in an election that seems to be slipping out of their hands.

IF Jerry Rawlings is not a genius, tell me who is. With his death, he has succeeded in proving to the two largest political parties in Ghana that he is one of the greatest and smartest Ghanaian politicians of all time.

It is even rumored that the government quietly moved Jerry’s body from Korlebu to the morgue of Military Hospital 37 for fear the body might disappear.

When NPP emerged victorious, Amidu was the natural person to be the nation’s first OSP. Jerry supported him and a section of the PNP supported him and even the diplomatic community backed him. There is no doubt that Jerry Rawlings was the pillar of Amidu, he was the only one he could trust and who he could trust. Amidu shared much of his situation at the OSP with Jerry Rawlings and, unbeknownst to the NPP, Jerry Rawlings was growing increasingly angry at what he was hearing and what he was witnessing in regards to corruption in the current government. .

Jerry Rawlings apparently followed Agyapa’s investigation very closely and after his mother’s burial when he realized the gory details of Agyapa’s deal, he was drifting far away from the NPP and feeling very betrayed.

Someone in the government even commented that since he returned from the Volta region after his mother’s funeral he had become “somehow”

One person was quoted as saying in Akan that “3y3 me s3 ayigbe fuo no ako sesa Jerry adwene”, meaning that the people of Ewe changed Jerry’s opinion about the nuclear power plant when he attended his mother’s funeral.

Unfortunately, Jerry, a father of this nation, the founder of the NDC, died and left, so the story of his last days will be told in full after his burial.

It was clear that when the president named Amidu as the SP of Ghana, the president expected him to comb the John Mahama regime with an anti-corruption brush as sensitive as a thermal imaging camera.

That did not happen because the NDC was not as corrupt as the NPP sold to the Ghanaians. Perhaps the NPP mistook the passion with which Amidu pursued the Woyome case with hatred for the NDC or widespread corruption in the NDC administration.

As stories and petitions of corruption within the PNP government began to flood the OSP and the media and public expectation of the OSP increased, the government’s lack of inertia unfortunately slowed the pace of the OSP’s take-off.

Amidu being Amidu quickly realized that if he didn’t put his foot down, the government would draw rings around him and they would see him as a villain, a pawn with nothing to show for it.
After nearly four years, Amidu had exhausted all the chapters of

“PRESIDENT WILLIAM ADDO DANKWAH AKUFFO-ADDO-2016” and realized that while the president was buying fire insurance against him, his government and his cousins ​​accused by the Agyapa report, he was trying to set fire to the farm of his opponent John Dramani Mahama, so

He did the exact opposite, and got the exact reaction he expected from the president: a feeling of betrayal and anger. Agyapa was Amidu’s only chance, the details of the scandal were nauseating to both Amidu and Jerry Rawlings.

Amidu was appalled at the deal’s alignment with Agyapa, the president was at Goal, his cousin, the finance minister, was center back, and his other cousin Gabby Asare Otchere Darko of Africa Legal Associates was in a prominent position supported by aponites linked to Gabby. or Ofori Atta.

That broke the camel’s back for Jerry Rawlings and Amidu and the unfortunate death of Jerry Rawlings became the final straw.

He wanted a war on corruption, now he has it.