Martin Amidu who has resigned as Special Prosecutor says his
conclusion that the president is not committed to fighting corruption
vindicates some NPP insiders.
“Many Ghanaians including
members of the Ghana Bar Association and the New Patriotic Party had variously
warned me that Mr. President did not intend me to take his anti-corruption
rhetoric literally,” excerpts of his latest release captured in
his 27-page document.
This, assertion by people from
the association and party came as a surprise to him, he said.
Mr. Amidu said, among other
things he considered President Akufo-Addo’s experience as a lawyer and his
contribution to the development of the 1992 constitution and doubted what the
people said against his person.
According to him, it was not
until November 2020 that he received the ‘divine revelation’ and manifestation
that put a knife on the thing that held the President and him together as
comrades.
He also mentioned that he had
earlier received the confirmation on October 23, 2020, but waited until
November to finally confirm that the President’s corruption fight was mere
rhetoric.
“It was only the divine
revelation to me on October 23, 2020, which was confirmed again in the evening
of November 1, 2020, that the similarity between Michela Wrongs, ‘it is our
turn to eat’ written about the former President Mwai Kibaki’s government in
Kenya and the President of Ghana was driven home strongly to me that the
President of Ghana like Kibaki of Kenya was exhibiting to me through divine
revelation of the Holy Trinity the traits of the boss of a corruption mafia
acting as the innocent flower of anti-corruption crusaders,” he added.
According to the anti-corruption campaigner, the conduct
exhibited by the President following the submission of the findings of his
corruption Risk Assessment conducted into the Agyapa deal has proven his
skeptics right.
In 2016, the NPP campaign team
marketed their candidate, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo strongly on the
corruption card. He was sold as an incorruptible and no-nonsense corruption
fighter.
He promised a change of hope to
protect the public purse – to fight corruption in his own administration, which
led to the creation of the Special Prosecutor’s Office.
But after two years in office,
Martin Amidu resigned on November 16, saying the NPP government’s posture has
left him disillusioned.
Since his resignation, he has
been on a collision course with the NPP government as he did after he resigned
from the NDC in 2011.
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