Ranking Member on the Constitutional, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Committee in Parliament, Inusah Fuseini has denounced media reports that suggested he claimed Martin Amidu drew salary from the Presidency as Special Prosecutor.
Speaking on Citi’s Eyewitness news, Inusah Fuseini insisted that he only sought to explain that because the Special Prosecutor was unable to access his budgetary allocation due to administrative bottlenecks, he was only relying on financial support from the Jubilee House as an independent and separate allocation.
To him, this has been misquoted as Amidu received salary from the presidency; adding that he has no power to determine whether Amidu was paid or not.
“I have no capacity to say that the Special Prosecutor has been paid or not and I could not have said that since I was not the one responsible for the payment of his salaries. For the period that the Special Prosecutor was in office, I was neither working at the Presidency or his office. Even in 2019, when he was given US180 million, and he appeared before the Committee, he had not drawn 10 per cent of that money. So that money was not available to him. The problem is that the Special Prosecutor and his Deputy not being paid was a cause of alarm,” he said.
Source: GhanaFeed.com
