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Former special prosecutor Martin Amidu advocates an independent office of special prosecutor (OSP) after the expiration of the three-year term of the board of directors.
According to Mr. Amidu, despite the fact that the term of the board of directors expired on July 11, 2021, nothing was heard from the president or from the PSO itself.
He said that although the composition of the board was aimed at ensuring the independence of the office, in practice the president defended all members of his administration under investigation by the special prosecutor.
Amidu, in a statement, noted that the special prosecutor’s office should be operationalized and established as a specialized independent anti-corruption agency “and not as an auxiliary to the presidency as was the case during the last eight months “.
“The office will be of no use to the taxpayer if it is another law enforcement and intelligence agency like the Police Department and other so-called ‘independent accountability bodies.’ who, every reasonable and rational Ghanaian, knows that they are tied to the strings of the deck of rhetoric President Nana Akufo-Addo and “The Family”.
He hopes that the appointment of new members of the board of directors will be fair, not rigged and that they have the necessary space to exercise their functions in complete independence.
Here are the details of Mr. Amidu’s statement:
THE APPOINTMENT OF THE ANTI-CORRUPTION CSO REPRESENTATIVE TO THE PSO BOARD OF DIRECTORS SHOULD NO LONGER BE RIGGED:
BY MARTIN ABK AMIDU
The public should be reminded that the three-year term of the board of directors of the special prosecutor’s office expired at midnight on July 11, 2021 without a word from the president or the office to the public. On Thursday, July 12, 2018, the Board of Directors of the Special Prosecutor’s Office was sworn in by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, supposedly to make “the anti-corruption body now fully ready to carry out its mandate.” (July 12, GNA).
During the board-swearing-in ceremony, the rhetorical chairman, Nana Akufo-Addo, was reported by the Ghanaian News Agency (GNA) for “stating that the composition of the board was ‘ensure the independence of the office and added that it was both crucial and mandatory for it to make the office autonomous and independent from the executive.
In practice, the president has defended all members of his administration under investigation by the special prosecutor. A person appointed by the president to the office was able to infiltrate the office, a colleague and friend she knew was an agent of the National Security Secretariat under contract. The operating number of the Toyota Landcruiser and Military Police bodyguard the contracted person came with and the partisan way he conducted his job betrayed them. His second one-year contract, which I fought against, expired in May 2021 and was renewed by his fellow friend despite reluctance about it which I had reported in writing before I resigned.
The president, in his usual intentional and deceptive political rhetoric “full of noise and fury that means nothing”, is also reported by the same source to have “… told the board that public expectations of him were high – the Ghanaian people were eager to see the special prosecutor’s office fulfilled its statutory obligations. It was true that public expectations were high, but the president’s statement was simply intended to deceive the public by telling them that the pretentious president (who was riding on the wings of the people’s anti-corruption fever to come to power, with no real intention to fight corruption), was still with them in their anti-corruption vote in the 2016 elections.
By the time President Akufo-Addo was making his high-profile statements, he knew he had collaborated with his dual citizen friends populating a particular civil society organization to rig the nomination and electoral process for the selection of the representative. anti-corruption civil society organizations. . The paradox is that anti-corruption civil society organizations knew this and lacked the courage to ensure that the sanctity of the process of appointing their representative was not violated. Their attempt to hire a press to speak on their behalf did not work due to the hypocrisy involved and the unthinkable that members of anti-corruption civil society organizations would be afraid to fight this form themselves. of corruption.
Now that the three-year term of the office’s board of directors has expired, these facts must be known so that Ghanaian patriots are vigilant and support anti-corruption civil society organizations to ensure that this time around. chosen representative is sworn in. -in by the president when the new council has just been inaugurated. The office of the special prosecutor should be operationalized and established as a specialized independent anti-corruption agency and not as a deputy to the presidency as has been the case for the past eight months. The office will be of no use to the taxpayer if it is another law enforcement and intelligence agency like the Police Department and other so-called “independent accountability agencies” including every reasonable and rational Ghanaian knows that they are tied to the apron chains of Rhetoric President Nana Akufo-Addo and “The Family”.
Ghana does not need another law enforcement agency that behaves like a bird court when cases involving poor citizens, seen as cockroaches, as opposed to ‘The Family’, are sent or referred for investigation: Cockroaches have no case in court or poultry forum, regardless of the quality of their complaint. This is the case in Ghana today. Let’s put, as patriotic citizens, Ghana first!
Martin ABK Amidu
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