Ayariga promises to challenge Amidu for his appeals

General News on Thursday, January 24, 2019

Source: Graphic.com.gh

2019-01-24

Bawku Central MP Mahama Ayariga said he was going to challenge a court order directing Mobile Telecommunications Network (MTN) to provide its appeals to special prosecutor Martin Amidu.

On January 22, the SP obtained an order from a court of Accra regarding the recordings of a telephone conversation of Mr. Ayariga following a conversation with an officer of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA).

However, in a statement, the MP claims to have asked his lawyers to challenge the said order.

According to Mr. Ayariga, he allegedly transmitted his MTN call recordings to the SP if the request had been made directly and not by an "order too broad".

He said: "I, Mahama, Ayariga would gladly have personally handed over my MTN call recordings to Mr. Martin Amidu, if he had just asked me directly, so he will see that I have not never called Mr. Kwasi Gyimah-Asante's phone, I still do not know who Kwasi Asante-Gyimah is.

"However, I think that in order to clarify the law protecting the privacy of Ghanaian citizens' communications on mobile telecommunications platforms and to create appropriate precedents, the breath of the court decision should be subject to legal control I have therefore instructed my lawyers accordingly. "

He also advised MTN to explore all legal avenues before publishing customer phone records.

Below, the complete Ayariga statement:

I will challenge the Martin Amidu court order for my MTN call registrations – Mahama Ayariga

Mahama, Ayariga, I would gladly personally give 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.

However, I believe that, in the interest of clarifying the law protecting the privacy of Ghanaian citizens' communications on mobile telecommunications platforms and creating appropriate precedents, the breath of the court decision should be subject to legal control. I have therefore instructed my lawyers accordingly.

I think it's wise to advise MTN not to hastily give in to this clearly overbroad order in the interest of its customers. MTN must be seen as exhausting all legal challenges.

L & # 39; Hon. Mahama Ayariga

Member of Parliament, Bawku Central