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Politics of Sunday, November 29, 2020
Source: rainbowradioonline.com
2020-11-29
Member of Parliament for Builsa South Dr. Clement Apaak
The deputy for Builsa Sur, Dr. Clement Apaak, has criticized President Akufo-Addo for the accusations made against him in the 27-page response of the former special prosecutor, Martin Amidu.
The legislator says that people who claim Martin Amidu’s response is without merit are doing the president a disservice because he has been targeted and described as a corrupt president who has protected his appointees from prosecution on corruption charges.
The deputy said that in any serious democracy, the president would have resigned for discrediting the presidency.
Dr. Apaak said the former prosecutor raised serious allegations including interference at work, corruption, and a beneficiary of corruption.
He believes that the good people of Ghana hope that President Akufo-Addo will respond to the issues and accusations raised against him by Martin Amidu, the former special counsel.
For him, the veil of incorruptibility that covered the president has been unveiled and he remains exposed because he campaigned against corruption in 2016, in which the former president, John Dramani Mahama, was rejected even when the accusations against him were without merit and weight.
He was hoping that Ghanaians would vote for the president because keeping him in power means he is an endorsement of theft, mismanagement and nepotism.
He added that corruption under Akufo-Addo is a matter for family, friends and cronies.
Amidu, in his response, said that the president’s agenda to fight corruption was mere rhetoric.
“I honestly and sincerely believed in HE Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s anti-corruption rhetoric” AS ANTI-CORRUPTION MOSES OF GHANA “when he was a presidential candidate during the 2016 elections as the most committed person and the last hope of Ghana to help the fight The continued rhetoric and anti-corruption actions of the president after winning the elections further convinced me that he needed all the support to achieve his rhetorical vision, as I said in my memorandum to Parliament dated September 6, 2017 on the need for him to redeem his electoral promise to establish an independent anti-corruption entity. I had no reason at the time to doubt his word of honor to me that, as an ethical lawyer, the president will fight corruption without fear or favor, affection or ill will. “
“It was only when the President directed me through his Chief of Staff on the morning of October 21, 2020 in his office at 8:40 a.m. not to take further action on Agyapa Royalties Limited’s anti-corruption assessment report Transactions until I met with the president on Friday, October 23, 2020, when I was aroused by the suspicion that the president’s pontifications holier than you on the fight against corruption did not extend to doing so without fear or favor, affection or ill will In cases where the president’s ox Immediately thereafter, I reported my concerns to the late former president emeritus Jerry John Rawlings, who had always acted as an intermediary between the president and me in his office in the presence of a surviving third party. emeritus that my mere presence as a Special Prosecutor contributed to reducing the violation of the public treasury through corruption activities that I position. position so long. He was the insurance of my independence of action. “
“The demands made of me by the president when I met with him in his office on Friday, October 23, 2020 to withhold any further action on Agyapa Royalties Limited’s anti-corruption assessment report based in the tax haven instantly convinced me that he had worked under the error Impression that I could be your poodle The interfering demands of the President in the performance of my duties as Special Prosecutor is the only explanation for me to tell the President immediately in his office that I did not intend to continue as Prosecutor Special. “
He also described the deal as the mother of all corruption and the president as the mother snake of corruption.
In the 27-page statement, Martin Amidu explained that “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 its authority under article 58 (1) of the Constitution “.
“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 looked like the innocent flower but is the mother snake of corruption under the Transactions of Agyapa Royalties “. he said.
In another paragraph, Martin Amidu emphasized that “when I met with the president on October 23, 2020, I received the impact of my life when he demanded that I take no further action on the anti-corruption evaluation report of the Agyapa royalty transaction during one more week”.
“It was then that it was divinely revealed to me that the president whom I trusted so much for his integrity seemed only the innocent flower of anti-corruption, but was actually the mother snake of corruption under the innocent-looking flower.”
In reaction, Dr. Apaak said that these are serious accusations and that the president must respond and not remain silent.
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