The President, Nana Akufo-Addo has responded to allegations levelled against him and his government by former Special Prosecutor, Martin Amidu in the latter’s resignation letter. The media visited the GNTC building after the “STOP WORK” notice and published videos which showed that no new renovations had begun on the building. Political Risk Analyst, Dr. Theo Acheampong says some of the words used by the former Special Prosecutor, Martin Amidu in his response to the President’s November 17 letter are unfortunate. It is for these reasons that I have underscored severally in communications to the Chief of Staff and to you that the proposed building has to be sole sourced for conversion into the various divisions mandated under Act 959, equipped and properly furnished for occupation by the proposed staff of the Office. Martin Amidu, The Special Prosecutor has hit hard at former President John Dramani Mahama for labelling him as a coward by deferring investigations into the controversial Airbus bribery scandal. I had by then gathered sufficient intelligence of the modus operandi of the Chief of Staffs office of renting accommodation from known friends whose identity are undisclosed, awarding the contract for their shoddy renovation to Kelvin Ofori-Atta and spending from the public purse without disclosing the expenditure involved even to the occupants of the rented premises. The Chief of Staff’s supervisor for all her projects to the best of my knowledge at the time was her Military Assistant, one Lt. Col. whom I scarcely dealt with directly. Earlier in the day on the Tuesday 17th November 2020, the presidency in a press release indicated notice of Mr. Martin Amidu’s resignation from the office of the special prosecutor. Without any further Cabinet or Executive Approval the Agyapa Royalties Limited Transaction that was tainted from the beginning by the Ministry of Finance acting under the smokescreen of its surrogates as Transaction Advisor was submitted to Parliament on 13th August 2020 for approval and approved without proper examination contrary March 8, 2021, 1:40 am, by The President’s continued anti-corruption rhetoric and actions after winning the elections further convinced me that he needed every support to achieve his rhetorical vision as I stated in my memorandum to Parliament dated 6th September 2017 on the necessity for him to redeem his electoral promise to set up an independent anti-corruption entity. The Office could not draw on its compensation of Employees, Goods and Services, and Capital Expenditure budgets because it had no office space in the three-bedroom office with boys’ quarters to independently employ staff who could be paid any compensation. The Agyapa Royalties Transaction is suspected to have been intended to rob the Chiefs and people of Ghana of their patrimony as the beneficiaries of the gold extractive resources of our dear country in perpetuity for the benefit of a very few members of the President’s Government as distinct from the New Patriotic Party. Read Martin Amidu’s full response below. AMIDUS-CONSTITUTIONAL-DEFENCE-TO-PRESIDENTIAL-LETTER Download. After the burial, the late President Emeritus repaired to his country home to rest until Wednesday, 28th October 2020 which gave me room to make an immediate independent decision whether to jump immediately. If the President and you had found the time to read the full Agyapa Royalties Transaction anti-corruption assessment report delivered to him under a covering letter on 2nd November 2020 you would not on 17th November 2020 have relied on mere conclusions and observations like lazy and inexperienced lawyers relying on facts and holding in a published law report to respond to my letter of resignation dated 16th November 2020. Related … The President has taken due note of the other matters raised in your letter, and the Government will issue a statement responding to them in due course.” (Emphasis supplied). You also quote out of context a statement contained in my letter with reference number OSP/SCR/24/33/20 dated 3rd August 2020 to the Chief of Staff stating that: “I have remained in this Office this long out of personal respect for the President’s shared interest….” You conclude from the two selected quotations that: “…it is surprising that you would now make the untenable claim that your resignation is as a result of the President’s alleged interference in your work.” I am dumbfounded to the fact that the President directed your conclusions based on your selected quotations as part of your directives and instructions from the President of Ghana because they are shallow conclusions mistakenly premised on the perception that all human beings are poodles who do not change their minds. The divine revelation by the Holy Trinity of the innocent looking flower who was also the serpent of corruption under it required the redemption of the oath I took by the cross of Jesus before Parliament not to cohabit with corruption and crime. The directive and instruction of the President to you on paragraph 10 seeks to accuse me of having no moral or legal basis when I “erroneously” decided to confer immunity from investigation and prosecution on the presidential candidate of the National Democratic Congress in connection with what you term the infamous Five million Euro Airbus bribery affair “by refusing to investigate him on clearly untenable grounds of being a candidate for President.” I took the decision to hold in abeyance the investigation of former President John Dramani Mahama with the knowledge and consent of the President as the Chairman of the National Security Council on purely national security grounds and not politics. Everything in that building was badly done and has been falling apart and breaking down ever since.’. 18. If Martin Amidu does not heed the advice of a delegation of eminent people who might be sent to him to call for a cease fire, we are likely to get a response from him. Another preliminary issue. Truth does not forget facts and dates but lies do because lies have no integrity. You may end up rendering at naught the effectiveness of the Office in the performance of its statutory functions and undermine your own acclaimed vision of fighting corruption during your second term in Office. Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest WhatsApp Telegram. By. Ghana First. My former “ANTI-CORRUPTION MOSES”, Mr President, kindly tell Ghanaians your reason for refusing to interdict or order the Municipal Chief Executive for the Bawku Municipal Assembly to vacate her office, even on voluntary or compulsory leave like you unconstitutionally did to Mr. Daniel Domelevo, the constitutionally appointed Auditor-General of Ghana, after my several pleas with you, and in spite of the fact that the first prosecution witness in the case gave his evidence-in-chief, was cross-examined and discharged on 12th November 2020 in the case of the Republic v Haiia Hawa Ninchema & 7 Others. March 6, 2021, 8:57 am, by The late former President Emeritus and the co-mediator might not have known or did not tell me how the President was going to handle the anti-corruption report he had tried to prevent me from making public but they both had no doubt that I would resign my position if the President interfered in my ability to investigate those suspected of the corruption and corruption-related offences contained in my report as the then Special Prosecutor.
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