Ghana’s former Special Prosecutor, Mr. Martin Alamisi Burnes Kaiser Amidu has disclosed his deep regret on why he even accepted to become the Special Prosecutor in 2018 after President Nana Addo offered him the position.
Writing about his deepest regret in life in an article, he said; “The only regret I have in life is to have trusted President Nana Akufo-Addo in such a sheepish manner as to have allowed him to have conned me into agreeing to be his Special Prosecutor in a naïve but sincere belief on my part that he was intent on fighting corruption and was also against using the process of criminal justice administration as an instrument of political discrimination against his political opponents”.
This write up was taken from an article he says is a sequel to one titled “A Short Tenure Fighting Corruption and Political Discrimination Is More Honourable” published on Friday, July 9.
He dropped this article on the back of the Attorney General and Minister of Justice Godfred Yeboah Dame’s interview on Metro TV where he purported that but for his spirited defense in court as a Deputy Attorney General, Mr Amidu would not have become the Special Prosecutor “which he so much touts about”.
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Mr. Amidu’s response to this was that; “The position and status of Special Prosecutor was not one I would ordinarily have agreed to be nominated and appointed to after declining nomination for the Supreme Court in 1999 as I indicated on oath at my vetting but for the fact the President invited, cajoled, promised, and assured me that the appointment was going to be on terms personal to me and vowed to ensure my independence and that of the Office.”
He further described the Attorney General as having the “effrontery, childlike pomposity and arrogance” to have granted the referenced interview.
Ewurama Acheampoma