Former Special Prosecutor, Martin Amidu, has once again cast doubt over President Nana Akuffo Addo’s anti-corruption persona, describing the President’s public statements on corruption as mere rhetoric.
In his latest epistle Mr. Amidu said the way things panned out regarding the Agyapa Mineral Royalties deal under the watch of much touted anti-corruption campaigner, one would wonder if the President is actually fighting corruption or promoting it.
He emphasized that corruption is still festering under the President lamenting that he, like many other well-meaning Ghanaians, had been hoodwinked by the sweet talk of the President into supporting him to come to power.
The former Special Prosecutor after leaving office, severally wrote about unwillingness of the president to fight corruption. In one of his numerous write-ups Mr. Amidu described the president as the “Mother Serpent” of corruption after he did a Corruption Risk Assessment on the Agyapa deal.
Mr. Amidu averred that the Agyapa Royalties deal “teaches all Ghanaians that this Government came to power on the strength of the rhetorical abilities of a candidate who had perfected the art of saying one thing and doing exactly the opposite” while adding that the Office of the Special Prosecutor was not to fight corruption but rather “a window dressing” to convince Ghanaians he is capable of fighting the canker.
“The Office of the Special Prosecutor and the first Special Prosecutor were intended as [a] mere window dressing to Ghanaians and [the] world while the public purse continued to be raped through purposeful corruption activities on the blind side of the voters who brought the President into power,” Amidu wrote in this latest epistle.
“I was hoodwinked like many other Ghanaians, first to support the Kabuki campaign of candidate Nana Akufo-Addo for President during the 2016 elections and secondly to accept to be the Special Prosecutor with the assurance of real independence to perform the functions of that Office. I never phantom that the President I trusted and upon whose honour I accepted the office merely wanted to use my known public reputation and integrity to foster suspicious corruption and corruption activities in his government.”
Mr. Amidu, in sympathizing with the next Special Prosecutor wrote, “I wish the next Special Prosecutor good luck during his tenure”
Amidu has also accused the government machinery in his write-up of instituting a culture of silence. He cited the harassments that the #FixTheCountry movement has faced in their attempt to demonstrate against what he called bad governance.
“The apolitical #FixTheCountry movement and the galvanized attempts by the government to suppress the expression of its free will shows how silence through fear can negate the citizen’s rights under our Constitution“.
He subsequently called on patriotic Ghanaians to resist at the peril of their comfort and lives, the attempt by this government to suppress “our rights to defend the 1992 Constitution. That is the only surest way to protect the Constitution and put Ghana First.”
