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General News on Friday, January 25, 2019
Source: dailyguideafrica.com
2019-01-25
It is thought that Mahama Ayariga is one of the many people that the Special Prosecutor investigates
Mahama Ayariga, a member of Bawku Central's parliament, is ready to continue the fight before the special prosecutor, Martin ABK Amidu, who has pledged to challenge a court order that Mobile Telecommunications Network (MTN) convey its conversations. audio to Mr. Amidu.
According to the NDC MP, it was not necessary for Ghana's first special prosecutor to go to court to obtain an order to release his phone calls through MTN, as he would have been happy to provide his telephone records.
On January 22, 2019, an Accra Circuit Court issued an order at the request of Mr. Amidu asking the Director General of MTN to release the audio conversations of the MP and a representative of the Ghana Revenue Authority. (GRA).
Although he did not indicate why he needed the sound recordings of the calls, this would be linked to ongoing investigations into how a confidential letter sent by Mr. Amidu to the GRA was leaked to the MP for Bawku Central. .
Mr. Amidu, in an article last week, said that he was ready to get to the bottom of things.
The former Attorney General is dissatisfied with the "impunity" with which Mr Ayariga also forwarded the leaked letter to the Executive Director of the Office for the Fight against Organized and Economic Crime (ACP), KKK Amoah, via the media platform social, WhatsApp.
EOCO and the Office of the Special Prosecutor opened an investigation against Mahama Ayariga for alleged obstruction of investigations and other alleged violations.
The court's decision is supposed to reveal the source of the leak that could have been communicated over the phone.
But the NDC MP seems offended by the order and pledged to challenge the decision, saying his lawyers had been asked to do so.
"I am going to challenge Martin Amidu's court order regarding my MTN appeal recordings. Mahama Ayariga, I would have gladly personally handed over my MTN call recordings to Mr. Martin Amidu, if he had just asked me directly. He will see that I have never called Mr. Kwasi Gyimah-Asante's phone. I still do not know who is Kwasi Asante-Gyimah, "said the deputy in a statement.
He also urged MTN not to rush to the "excessive" decision of the court in the interest of its clients.
"MTN must be seen as exhausting all legal channels," added Ayariga.
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