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Legal practitioner and communication member of the NDC, Abraham Amaliba is surprised that 'vengeful and vindictive' Martin Amidu accepted to be the first Special Prosecutor of Ghana.

“I was surprised that Amidu accepted this appointment because Amidu brought out a stinker of a letter criticising the way some people he called cabals within the presidency tried to water down the effects of the Act...the office will need somebody who is not openly biased towards one. I have no question about his competence but the office needs a person who is not vengeful and vindictive,” he said on TV3’s New Day programme, Saturday, 13 January 2018.

According to him, “Amidu is reported to have openly said he will fight the NDC with his last blood, now, you put this person as the SP? It is an open secret that he is a card bearing member of NDC but he is an estranged member of the NDC. I think the decision to appoint him is a bad one because he is one-sided.”

The Attorney General, Gloria Akuffo, nominated Mr Amidu as the SP and his nomination was accepted by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo.

On Thursday, 11 January 2018, the President named Mr Amidu, a former Minister of Justice and Attorney General as the Special Prosecutor, pending parliamentary approval.