At Your Age You Fear Death Threats – Prof Gyampo Chides Amidu

Special Prosecutor, Martin Amidu at his age should be less concerned about death threats on his life in executing his duties, political science lecturer at the University of Ghana Professor Ransford Yaw Gyampo has suggested.

In a post on Facebook, Gyampo noted that Amidu had the perfect opportunity to mark his mark as special Prosecutor however, he has let Ghanaians down.

“At his age, and given his experience, what did he [Amidu] fear about threats of death and intimidation? If armed robbers do not fear to die during robbery attacks even at very fortified places, how can an aged person like Amidu, doing the right thing for society, give up, simply because of threats on his life?

“As a young man, I have received several threats on my life before, for daring to speak my mind. But so what? I am sure he had similar threats when he fell out with Prof. Mills’s government and became a Vigilante Citizen.

”He continued: “Didn’t Amidu know that in our part of the world, corruption is rather the rule, than the exception, and it will fight anyone who fights it? Didn’t he know that transitional democracies are always quick to create institutions just to render them toothless by open or surreptitious executive interference and by denying them the needed resources to function?

“Didn’t he know that in developing democracies, some people are untouchable and that if you touch them, there will be consequences? Didn’t he know that it is normal in a developing democracy for people in power to react the way they may have reacted about his report that exposes some wrongdoing?” he added.

Source: GhanaFeed.com