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General news for Saturday, November 28, 2020
Source: www.ghanaweb.com
2020-11-28
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo
Martin Amidu, Ghana’s former special counsel, has spoiled the incorruptible label of President Nana Akufo-Addo and his praise singers have been flaunting all these years.
During the 2016 election campaign, candidate Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo was described as an “incorruptible” person both in her private life as a legal practitioner with Akufo-Addo, Prempeh & Co and in government previously, first as Attorney-General and Minister of Justice and then Minister of Foreign Relations.
This tag has been dented with Martin Amidu’s 27-page response to the president’s nine-page response signed by Nana Bediatuo Asante, the president’s secretary.
President Akufo-Addo, in a nine-page reply letter accepting the resignation of Martin Amidu, the Special Prosecutor, dismissed the allegations of political interference in the work of the Special Prosecutor’s Office.
But Martin Amidu said in his 27-page response published Friday that he was completely shocked by the letter from the President.
He explained that the content of the chairman’s letter was intended to “assassinate my character by simply exposing the true nature of the Jersey overseas transactions incorporated by Agyapa Royalties Limited in my anti-corruption professional assessment report.”
He added that the conduct exhibited by the president after the presentation of the findings of the Corruption Risk Assessment carried out on the Agyapa agreement has shown that his campaign against corruption is mere rhetoric.
Amidu further added: “When I told the president on October 23, 2020 and November 1, 2020 that I had no authority to usurp the functions of the Special Prosecutor, it should have been clear to him that his interpretation had exceeded his authority under article 58 (1) of the Constitution ”.
The former special counsel noted that the president, under the circumstances, made it clear that his role in the Agyapa deal was far more pronounced than previously perceived by the public.
Based on this observation, Amidu stated: “The unconstitutional assumptions made by the President constitute the same conduct that the President exhibited to me for the first time that convinced me beyond a reasonable doubt that he only seemed the innocent flower but is the mother Snake corruption under the Agyapa Royalty Transactions. “
Amidu continued: “When I met with the president on October 23, 2020, I received the shock of my life when he demanded that I take no further action on the anti-corruption assessment report of the Agyapa royalty transaction for another week. It was then that it was divinely revealed to me that the president whom I trusted so much for his integrity was only seen as the innocent flower of anti-corruption, but in reality he was the mother snake of corruption under the flower of innocent appearance. “
Amidu also added more: “Anti-Corruption Moses, kindly tell Ghanaians your reason for refusing to intercept or order the Chief Executive Officer of Bawku Municipal Assembly to vacate office, even with voluntary or compulsory leave as you did. unconstitutionally with Mr. Daniel Domelevo, the constitutionally appointed Auditor General of Ghana … “
He continued: “My dear former anti-corruption Moses, Mr. President, this is just one example to remind you, Mr. President, that you should not have unleashed your attack dogs against my integrity as responsible for the failure of the special prosecutor in the fight against corruption under your presidency. ”.
Martin Amidu resigned from his position as Special Prosecutor on November 16, three years after he was appointed by President Akufo-Addo, but in his resignation letter, Amidu stated that he received his appointment letter only on February 5, 2020 , a reason why he was unable to act fully.
Amidu in his 27-page response noted that, “the President on January 7, 2017 took the presidential oath in which he promised, inter alia,” … that at all times I will preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the Republic of Ghana ; and that I am dedicated to the service and welfare of the people of the Republic of Ghana and to do good to all kinds of people[…]”That is why the president’s directives and instructions for you, that he knows, tend to push me under the bus, for doing bad to me as a citizen of Ghana for performing my professional duties in the UK, Jersey,” added Agyapa Royalties Transactions’ anti-corruption evaluation report reinforces the divine revelation that he took the presidential oath while viewing himself as the innocent flower of anti-corruption but being the mother snake of corruption beneath him. “
He continued: “Mr. President, the politically induced witch-hunt audit that you ordered in the Special Prosecutor’s Office on Monday, November 23”, 2020 after I had accepted my resignation from the date I assumed office in 2018 to the date of your Acceptance of my resignation simply because of my professional work on the Agyapa Royalties Limited Transaction Anti-Corruption Assessment Report suspected of corruption will never intimidate me. It may end up invalidating the effectiveness of the Office in the performance of its statutory functions and undermining its own acclaimed vision of fighting corruption during its second term. Remember my words, Mr. President!
“The president refused to read the law or read it, but could not, as a judge in his own case, like the corrupt snake mother under the innocent-looking flower, appreciate the clear distinction between an impartial president and a president with an interest in his If the President had allowed his hot blood of anger against me for discovering the mother snake to cool down and for reasons to take his seat, he would have acted as he had promised to the late former President Emeritus Rawlings to trust my professionalism and repudiate the Agyapa Royalties Limited Transaction by allowing me the independence and freedom to investigate matters arising from it. “
Read Martin Amidu’s full answer below.
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