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Special Prosecutor Martin Amidu apologized to the Ajumako-Enyan-Esiam MP for his comments on the payment of the judgment debt.
In a statement, Amidu said that Cbadiel Ato Forson's comments suggested that payments were made to him as a result of collusion between himself, Amidu and the government, and about it defamatory.
"No government has ever paid any money in an official capacity or because of my status as a special prosecutor as a judicial debt," wrote Amidu.
Special Prosecutor, Martin Amidu
The special prosecutor said that the words of the opposition MP "were understood by the public as ordinary and sensible citizens, and that you meant by the government that the government had illegally colluded my status as a special attorney to pay me dubiously for money and other benefits resulting from court orders. "
According to Amidu, the debts were debts inherited from the former government, Ato Forson.
According to Amidu, the MP states that "members of the public, who think in a thoughtful manner, also formulated expressly and insinuating that I did not have the high moral integrity of being a special attorney".
Ato Forson made the statement after Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta told parliament that the NPP government had paid more than 280 million GH ¢ in court debt to 679 million GH ¢ since taking office in 2017
Martin Amidu believes he has been defamed by the member's statements and therefore asks for an unqualified apology.
Read the letter of Amidu below:
HON. CASSIEL ATO BAAH FORSON, MP
MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT FOR
CONSTITUENCE AJUMAKO-ENYAN-ESIAM
HOUSE OF PARLIAMENT
ACCRA
APPLICATION FOR NON-EQUALIFIED APPLICATION OF DEFAMATORY PUBLICATIONS OF YOUR MEDIA ALLEGING AND INSINUTING THAT THE VALUE OF MONEY TO OR WAS DEPENDED IN FAVOR OF MARTIN ABK AMIDU BY THE GOVERNMENT OF GHANA, UNDER THE TERMS OF THE ESTABLISHMENT AND CONSTITUTION OF HIGH COURT JUDGMENT IN SUIT: AP 159/2013 BETWEEN MARTIN ABK AMIDU VRS. THE ATTORNEY GENERAL HAS BEEN DUBTED WITH JUDGES TO THE ATTORNEY GENERAL BY THE GOVERNMENT OF GHANA.
Out of 12th In July 2019, the Minister of Finance, answering questions from Parliament, reportedly said that the government had paid more than 280 million since its inauguration in 2017, on the public debt of the nation, which had risen to more than 679 million GH. In his response to these questions, the Minister of Finance did not mention the names of the institution or individuals to whom the alleged judgment debts were owed or paid.
Despite the refusal or inability of the Minister of Finance to identify the organizations or individuals to whom the alleged debts were paid when detailed information on payments to Parliament was claimed, you, the 39; Hon. Cbadiel Ato Baah Forson, has chosen to convene and address a press conference outside the Parliament Hall where you enjoy immunity. Immediately after, you deliberately and maliciously named three entities about which you made the following statements:
"We hear and on authority we hear that they paid the likes of McDan, they paid Bankswitch, they paid even the special prosecutor we will have to investigate an amount of debt related to a judgment, in order to determine if they are eligible to receive this amount.
And that's why I asked the Minister of Finance to provide us with a breakdown …I also do not think that in the case of the Special Prosecutor … I heard that he had gone to court, there had been a default judgment and the special prosecutor A certain sum was paid to him for the fact that he was falsely dismissed as Minister of State, whether or not he acted with a judicial debt, we wish to obtain additional and better information … ".
The interview you gave to the parliamentary press while it was outside the House of Parliament and in which you made this deliberate, malicious and defamatory international statement about me and with regard to two other entities has been published on the radio, repeated and extensively discussed print and electronic media. Your voice recording has also been widely read and discussed in the media, while video recording has been published and also discussed in the electronic media, including YouTube.
By making and publishing the slanderous documents that concern me, as part of my official duties as Special Prosecutor, you served as Deputy Minister of Finance from 2013 to 2016.th January 2017 and the current member of the Finance Committee of Parliament knew that I had not obtained any judgment or order from any competent court in my capacity as special attorney to receive judgment debt since my appointment. appointment, approval and appointment to the Office of the Special Prosecutor. Nevertheless, you have chosen maliciously and with intent to defame me personally and in my current office as a special prosecutor to designate me by the title of my current appointment as a public officer instead of my personal name at the time of my appointment. the publication and publication of your defamatory act. statement about my person and my integrity.
As Deputy Minister of Finance in the previous government from 2013 to 2006th January 2017, you knew that I brought an action in my own name on the 30thth January 2013 in Case No. AP / 159/13 in the case of Martin A. B. K. Amidu against the Attorney General requesting an order for the payment of my salary arrears, rent arrears, payment of earned annual leave, end-of-stay allowances, indemnity for breach of contract with interest accrued on said sums from the date of Accumulation up to the date of payment, among others.
The government you served through your national security advisor, the Hon. Alhaji Baba Kamara, contacted me on the 26thth December 2013 on behalf of your government to have the matter settled amicably. I have insisted to only deal with the Attorney General. Your National Security Advisor then asked your Attorney General to contact me and offered to try to reach an amicable settlement that I accepted. The representative of the Attorney General officially brought this proposal to the attention of the Court. With my help, the case was adjourned to allow us to attempt a settlement.
The result was the signing of the terms of the settlement by the Hon. Dr. D. Ayine for the respondent, on behalf of the Attorney General and myself on my own behalf as plaintiff on 29th August 2014. The terms of the settlement were filed in the High Court on 2North Dakota In September 2014, the Attorney General and the High Court adopted the terms of the settlement as a consent judgment in the case with a cost of 6,000,000 GHC awarded in my favor on 4th September 2014. In my personal capacity as plaintiff, I filed the judgment of the Supreme Court on 11th September 2014.
The government that you then mandated signed us to oppose a confidential confidentiality agreement to prevent other appointees who were underpaid from seeking a reconsideration of their wages. and other benefits. . This explains why the figures were in the possession of the parties but were not mentioned in the terms of settlement or the consent judgment of the High Court.
The government under which you have served as deputy finance minister has paid by check from the Bank of Ghana, number 10186631473188, about two-thirds of the total agreed sum known to both parties, the remaining balance showing in writing a letter N ° D45 / SF.169 / 13. dated 11th In September 2015, the Attorney General sent me a letter signed on his behalf by the Acting Solicitor General. Ms. Helen A. A. Ziwu to which was attached letter No. SCR / PF / A / 251 of 10th September 2015, addressed to the Attorney General by the Chief of Staff of the time and signed on his behalf by the Director of Finance and Administration, Mr. H. Mr. Wood. Mr. H. Mr. Wood not only led your government's delegation of the then presidency who joined the Attorney General's team who negotiated the terms of the settlement with me, but he's also been for some time director Acting General of the current Government Presidency.
The short payment made by your Department of Finance at the time, leaving about one-third of the balance of the calculated amount, resulted in several letters being written to encourage your department to pay the balance. Dr. Dominic A. Ayine (MP), then Deputy Minister of Justice, who is still your colleague in Parliament, wrote two letters bearing the number D45 / SF.169 / 13 of 23rd September 2015 addressed to the Chief of Staff, Mr. Julius Debrah, and to your Hon. Minister separately; the Chief of Staff of the time had also signed letter No. SCR / PF / A / 251 of 8th October 2015 to your then Hon. Minister asking him to pay the balance indicated; and the Prosecutor General wrote letter D45 / SF.169 / 13 dated 13th May 2015, signed for her and on her behalf by the Attorney General who led the negotiating team of the Attorney General's Office, to your Hon. Minister, let us recall to the letter of the chief of cabinet already mentioned, among other letters.
The other High Court orders in the consent judgment also remained outstanding and your government at the time, through the Attorney General, and others, had been trying to to comply with it. In the meantime, your government has continued to send my national security adviser, Alhaji Baba Kamara, with the promise to honor the court's orders and urge me to preserve the confidentiality of the figures underlying the terms of the settlement. Indeed, no later than 5th In December 2016, your national security advisor badured me that your government would ensure compliance with the remaining court orders if you won the next day's elections. I told him politely that winning elections the next day was impossible from the point of view of the country. My last letter to the Attorney General on the outstanding issue arising from the Court's orders was dated 21st December 2016 and copy to your National Security Advisor.
I have never received money from either your own government or the current government, which is not covered by the terms of settlement and the consent judgment. The figures that have been negotiated and known to both parties have been written and have been communicated to the Department of Finance of your day by the Attorney General and the then Chief of Staff. You are deemed to be the Deputy Minister of Finance of the Department of Finance for which the terms of settlement and the consent judgment have been made available for the purpose of enforcing the Court's knowledge orders. mentioned above, the official official file has been communicated to you periodically by this Ministry.
Since you said in your interview that you speak with authority, I would like to remind you that the Acting Solicitor General and the Acting Director of Public Prosecutions at the time that your government appointed on 16th December 2016 are still in office and I referred to the Acting Solicitor General's letter in this letter to inform you that she would have done better to inform you of the situation if you had not had the ################################################################# Intention to defame me unnecessarily.
No government has ever paid any money in an official capacity or because of my status as a special prosecutor. Your intentional, malicious and deliberately defamatory words were used to describe any payment I would make of any or all of the current court orders issued on the 4thth The members of the public who thought well and thought well in September 2014 and you meant by that that the Government had unlawfully collaborated with me in my capacity as special prosecutor to pay me dubiously for money and money. other benefits resulting from court orders. The words you used to describe my alleged dubious collusion with the current government in order to respect the outstanding orders accepted and left by your government also expressly and by insinuations created in the mind of the public who thought I was missing of high moral integrity Special Prosecutor. The cumulative effect of your press interviews, which you wanted to spread both in the print and electronic media, was deliberately and knowingly intended to create my hard-earned reputation as a person of high moral character and demonstrated integrity acquired during Decades of dedicated service in several public offices is discredited in the eyes of people who think well in society.
By this letter, I therefore ask you for an excuse and an unconditional withdrawal from you, Cbadiel Ato Baah Forson, of your defamatory statements and of your publications about me, alleging the questionable payment of legal claims against me as a Prosecutor special in the seven days. You must also publicly acknowledge, in the said apologies and retractions, that the detailed figures to be paid to me in accordance with the terms of settlement and the consent judgment were the subject of a confidentiality agreement between your government of the day and me, that is why your government has not included the figures in the terms of settlement and consent judgment.
If I do not hear from you in the next seven days, I will be obliged to advise me on the measures to be taken to defend my hard-earned reputation, which you intentionally, maliciously and seriously hurt and discredited.
MARTIN A. B. K. AMIDU
Cc: HON. ATTORNEY GENERAL – ACCRA
HON. ALHAJI BABA KAMARA – ANCIENT LEGON OF THE NSA-NOTH, ACCRA
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