Amidu descends on Mahama, but Anas challenges him
A former Attorney-General, Mr Martin Amidu says the government does not have the commitment to fight corruption and lead an administration of integrity.
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He supported his accusation with the argument that even though he went to the Supreme Court and obtained favourable judgments, asking private companies to return millions of Ghana cedis and euros to the state but said: “Not a dime has been retrieved by government since 2014”.
Speaking on Joy FM and MultiTV’s news analysis programme, Newsfile, Mr Amidu also accused ace investigative journalist, Anas Aremeyaw Anas of conniving with the Mahama administration to cover up corrupt activities by some politicians, and urged him to come clean.
Anas challenges Amidu
But Anas has challenged Mr Amidu to provide proof of his allegations that he (Anas) was collaborating with government to expose corrupt practices in the country.
“I love Uncle Martin, I think he has done a great job for this nation but you [Martin] can’t just say things without proving them” he said in an interview with BBC’s Sammy Darko.
Anas said he would proudly welcome any collaboration with government to expose corrupt practices in the country.
There has been a battle of words between Mr Amidu and Anas over the journalistist exposé on the judicial corruption.
Unconstitutional
Mr Amidu said what Anas had done was “unconstitutional. It is not allowed and, particularly, to do it in contravention of law, LI 1517, to do it in contravention of the company code.”
He contended that if Anas was not commissioned by the government, “the government would not have allowed him to breach all these laws,” and went ahead to grant him protection.
Citing himself as an example, Mr Amidu said he had a number of anti-corruption work and questioned why he was not protected.
He said Tiger Eye PI was not a registered company and said government, under the constitution was prohibited from using such a person to do an investigation.
Mr Amidu charged government to stop using such private individual to conduct investigations, describing it as unconstitutional.
Anti-corruption crusader
The former Attorney-General has been touted as one of Ghana’s foremost anti-corruption crusaders.
He has consistently fought graft, particularly, in government and even after his removal from office as Attorney-General, he continued with the fight.
A self-styled financier of the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC), Alfred Agbesi Woyome, was ordered to refund ¢51.2 million he unlawfully obtained from the state as a judgment debt award.
Spanish firm, Waterville, was also ordered to return some €47 million Martin Amidu said it unconstitutionally got from the state and the Supreme Court agreed.
