Martin Alamisi Burnes Kaiser Amidu the former Special Prosecutor appointed in 2018 has recounted his regret for accepting an offer as SP from President Akuffo Addo whom he described as a con man and blamed naivety as his motivation for his decision in 2018.
In a tall write up sighted by Ahotoronline.com, Mr. Amidu revealed that , he only trusted the “sheepish” decision by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to appoint him to the position, which he never touts as an achievement.
Describing his extreme regret, Mr..Amidu wrote..
“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,” Mr Amidu wrote in 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.
His write up comes in part to address claims by Attorney General and Minister of Justice Godfred Yeboah Dame who is reported to have said in an interview on Metro TV 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”
In what appears to be hard reaction to Mr. Odame’s claims the former Special Prosecutor wrote : “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.”
Mr Amidu heavily descended on Mr. Godfred Odame and described him as having the “effrontery, childlike pomposity and arrogance” to have granted the referenced interview.
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