Former Attorney General Martin A.B.K. Amidu has claimed some influential people and chiefs are trying to persuade new President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo not to prosecute perceived corrupt officials under the previous Mahama administration.
He said President Akufo-Addo’s anti-corruption efforts would be meaningless if he takes the path of reconciliation instead of probity and accountability.
In a statement released recently, Mr. Amidu, who is a member of the NDC and renowned for his anti-corruption exploits, said “I assure every Ghanaian that the evidence of criminal and unconstitutional conduct is overwhelming, but unconstitutional attempts are being made through influential chiefs and elders to let bygones be bygones contrary to the demands of the Constitution for accountability, transparency and fairness in governance.”
He accused the 6th Parliament of the 4th Republic of assisting the previous Mahama administration to loot the country and hoped that the current 7th Parliament will not attempt to “compromise the President’s anti-corruption agenda in the name of reconciliation.”
“The President’s anti-corruption drive will be still-born with such compromises and reconciliations.”
While congratulating the new Speaker Prof. Mike Aaron Oqcuaye, the former AG said “unlike previous elections in the annals of our history the pivotal and critical issues were between electing a corrupt, bankrupt, inept, incompetent, abusive, impudent, and Looter incumbent Government, and electing one of the contesting candidates dedicated to fighting all these unconstitutional capricious evils and protecting the national purse.”
He prayed that Ghana should never elect a President like John Mahama because he is corrupt and had looted the country’s treasury.
“The massive thrashing of the incumbent Looter Government of John Dramani Mahama (may God never give Ghana a corrupt and looter President like him again) by the President Nana Akufo-Addo and the New Patriotic Party (NPP) is a clear expression of the sovereign will of Ghanaians for accountability, transparency and fairness in governance to all citizens without fear or favour.”
He said Ghanaians voted against what he termed “patronage, cronyism, ethnicity, and political party cryptocracy,” saying “Ghanaians, therefore, expect and demand a total brake with the immediate past practices of the parliaments which were reduced into appendages of the executive chariot in looting the national purse.”
“Ghanaians have demanded and expect that the mandate of the 7th Parliament will be consistent with the letter and spirit of the 1992 Constitution; and the promises by the President to protect the national purse and be impartial in the governance of our dear country.”
“The promises of the President upon whose steam of anti-corruption agenda the NPP in Parliament had such a beautiful majority, meets Citizens Vigilance for Justice’s agenda of putting Ghana First,” adding “I dare say that the reasonable number of members of Parliament returned and voted to the 7th Parliament was the result of the electorate’s perception of their ability to put Ghana First in holding the executive to account.”
He said that “the expectations of Ghanaians that the President and the 7th Parliament would for the first time since 2009 indeed render selfless service to the people of Ghana and not champion their corrupt self-interest and their political party’s myopic corrupt self-interest was demonstrated by the events that unfolded on Friday, 6th January 2017 at the concluding deliberations of the Sixth Parliament under the Fourth Republican Constitution, 1992.”
Mr. Amidu said that “the partisanship, cronyism, patronage, ethnicity, and endemic corruption of the Looter Governments of the Fifth and Sixth Governments of the Fourth Republic had been allowed by the majority to infect the fabric and conduct of Legislative business in the House.”
He hoped the current parliament would “be a leading champion of the anti-corruption agenda within itself and against the executive and judiciary,” adding “may this 7th Parliament not be party to paid covert Government surveillance through illegal undercover agents spying on coordinate organs of government and collaborating with the executive to suppress parliament’s own corrupt practices while exposing that of the least powerful branch, the judiciary.
Source: Daily Guide
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@Yaa mansa hahahahahaha can't laugh oooo Yaa mansa would kill me
NPP have accused the past administration of corruption, corruption and corruption. We are yet to get some proof. If they are not able to proof it then they lied to Ghanaians.
Mr amidu dont worry . Just stay cool . We are expanding all the prisons in ghana . After which the rule of law will start . They will be line one by one . Nobody will be spared . God bless ghana
I don't see how nana Addo will appoint just a dangerous man in his administration. If nana does not take care and appoint this man as special prosecutor he will collapse his government. Someone rancorous like him can even find something against nana Addo himself when he is peeved. Most importantly he still have the Ndc spirit in him and can easily sabotage nana's government. Nana should stay away from people such as Rawlings and Amidu because they can easily use him to relaunch their political ambitions.
Upon all your support, nana Addo did not appoint you in his government. Instead of finding something useful to do with your life, you are still hell-bent on your vindictiveness. Grow up.
My friend, exercise some restraint, because most ***barred word*** are left of the hook by most of our judges when they have very astute lawyers to defend them. There are lawyers who are cronies of most of our judges and no matter what you advocate for they can easily use some technical points to let ***barred word*** go Scot free. Most corrupt officials of Npp were left off the hook after 2008 because there was no proper evidence against them coupled with the fact that they had Npp lawyers who claim to be incorruptible vehemently defending them. Someone like ayikoi otoo who is friends to almost all the judges would connive with judges behind the scenes to let them off the hook. He was not given any ministerial appointment, so when prosecution start, you will see him having a lot of cash defending ***barred word***. Egbert and co will go and defend them. Can imagine how Woyome was left off the hook, even though Npp thought the judges support them. It is not easy just to jail politicians in Ghana.
Let no chief interfere in this. Those who are corrupt should face the law. No one is above the law. Nana prosecute them for the sake of mother Ghana
Yes, NPP got elected on moral high ground.It's just a matter of course that the wheels of justice start grinding. But, let the law take its own due processes and valid conclusions. It takes all 3 arms of government(Executive, Legislature & Judiciary) make corruption expensive and unpalatable. Nana can only prosecute with admissible evidence, not hearsay. It lies in the bosom of the Judiciary to pronounce judgement. Amidu,please continue politicians to standards of morality, decency and civility. Promote public interest in protecting the public pulse. Politicians are all from the same parents-corruption. Let's keep watch, else we perish together
Martin Amidu is a walking lunatic. He's peeved!!
This S-tu:pid attitude of most Ghanaian of forgive and forget and let bygones be bygones is destroying this country.Its time we allow the law to work no matter who is caught.We should never be proud of that Ghanaian attitude.Ghanaians are generally too docile and its very bad