The governing New Patriotic Party has reacted to the resignation of special prosecutor, Martin Amidu insisting that no government official interfered with the work of the special prosecutor as Amidu alleged.
Mr. Amidu resigned as the Special Prosecutor on Monday claiming that government officials and the presidency were interfering with the independence of his office.
Portions of his resignation letter to the President read,
“I should not ordinarily be announcing my resignation to the public myself but the traumatic experience I went through from 20th October 2020 to 2nd November 2020 when I conveyed in a thirteen (13) page letter the conclusions and observations on the analysis of the risk of corruption and anti-corruption assessment on the Report On Agyapa Royalties Limited Transactions and Other Matters Related Thereto to the President as Chairman of the National Security Council caution against not bringing my resignation as the Special Prosecutor with immediate to the notice of the Ghanaian public and the world.
In undertaking the analysis of the risk of prevention of corruption and anti-corruption assessment I sincerely believed that I was executing an independent mandate under the Office of the Special Prosecutor, Act, 2017 (Act 959) and the Office of the Special Prosecutor (Operations) Regulations, 2018 (L. I. 2374).
The reaction I received for daring to produce the Agyapa Royalties Limited Transactions anti-corruption report convinces me beyond any reasonable doubt that I was not intended to exercise any independence as the Special Prosecutor in the prevention, investigation, prosecution, and recovery of assets of corruption. My position as the Special Prosecutor has consequently become clearly untenable,”
However, a statement issued and signed by the Communications Director of the NPP, Yaw Buabeng Asamoah stated that Mr Amidu was exaggerating the alleged interference in his work by the President.
The party describing Mr. Amidu’s exit as shocking also stated that the Special Prosecutor “chose to walk away from the golden opportunity of establishing a brand new effective agency, having had the best part of three years to demonstrate and cement his undoubted anti-corruption credentials in doing so.”
Source: GhanaFeed.Com
