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Former Executive Director of the Ghana Integrity Initiative (GII), Vitus Azeem has said he didn’t expect the Special Prosecutor to stay up to one year. He said lot of things did not seem right at the time of his appointment including the government’s inability to resource his office. The Special Prosecutor in a statement yesterday shocked the whole world when he said he had resigned following what he considered interference in his work as an independent special prosecutor. Speaking on the 3FM Sunrise Morning Show with Alfred Ocansey, Mr Azeem said “I said it in 2018 I didn’t expect Martin…

A United States based Ghanaian professor, Kweku Asare, has expressed dissenting views against Martin Amidu following his resignation as Special Prosecutor. He said Mr Amidu should have stood his grounds and continued with the investigations into the Agyapa Royalties agreement. “My opinion is that the SP should have stood his grounds and continued with the Agyapa investigation. This is exactly what Justice Abban did when General Acheampong attempted to interfere with the tabulation of the UNIGOV results. “I also think Presidents should avoid inviting independent officers to the Presidency to discuss their work, especially if such work implicates the executive.…

Chairman of the Civil Society Platform on Oil and Gas Dr Steve Manteaw has said Special Prosecutor Martin Amidu was set up to fail. His comments come on the heels of Mr Amidu’s resignation on Monday, November 16. Reacting to the news of the Special Prosecutor’s resignation on his Facebook page, Dr Manteaw wrote: “Have you revised your notes? There goes all our hope of curbing corruption. The man was set up to fail. “It takes more than rhetorics to combat corruption. At least, Martin Amidu’s resignation speaks to government’s false pretences.” Mr Amidu cited a number of reasons for…

Assin Central lawmaker Kennedy Agyapong has said he warned the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) against the appointment of Martin Amidu as the Special Prosecutor but the party did not listen to him. According to him, Mr Amidu was the wrong choice for that position. “Nobody should be scared or worried about Martin Amidu’s resignation, if he has resigned so be it, he didn’t do any better work when in office. “No wonder Mahama recently described him the way he did,” Mr Agyapong said on Net 2 in reaction to the news of the resignation of Mr Amidu as Special…

The Special Prosecutor Martin Amidu has resigned from his post effective Monday November 16, 2020. He gave a number of reasons for his decision. Read below the top five reasons for his decision to resign… It is essential for me to state for the purpose of the records, and contrary to public perceptions, that my appointment letter was received on 5th February 2020 (almost two (2)-years after my appointment). The copy addressees made no efforts to honour any of the conditions of appointment in terms of emoluments and benefits of the appointment ever since my warrant of appointment was issued…

Mr Martin Amidu has claimed that his appointment letter was given to him on 5th February 2020, two years after he assumed office as the Special Prosecutor. He revealed this in his resignation letter to the president on Monday November 16. “It is essential for me to state for the purpose of the records, and contrary to public perceptions, that my appointment letter was received on 5th February 2020 (almost two (2)-years after my appointment),” the letter to the president said. Below is his full letter to the president… This is to inform the public that I resigned from my…

A senior lecturer at the University of Education, Winneba, Dr. Ahmed Jinapor has indicated that the timing for the resignation of Special Prosecutor Martin Amidu was wrong. Mr Amidu resigned as Special Prosecutor effective Monday 16th November, 2020, just few weeks to the major elections on December 7. In his letter to the president he said “The one condition upon which I accepted to be nominated as the Special Prosecutor when you invited me to your Office on 10th January 2018 was your firm promise to me that you will respect and ensure same by your Government for my independence…

Special Prosecutor, Martin Amidu, has cited among other things his analysis of the risk of prevention of corruption and anti-corruption assessment of the Agyapa Royalties deal as a reason for his resignation. Mr. Amidu Monday November 16 sent his resignation the President and a public statement announcing his resignation. Parts of the public statement indicates that his resignation was as a result of his recent corruption risk assessment of the controversial Agyapa Royalties agreement in which some key government appointees and close associates to government were fingered. According to Martin Amidu, the conduct of the exercise did not go down…

Special Prosecutor Martin Amidu has resigned from his post on Monday November 16 2020. In his letter to the president he said “The one condition upon which I accepted to be nominated as the Special Prosecutor when you invited me to your Office on 10th January 2018 was your firm promise to me that you will respect and ensure same by your Government for my independence and freedom of action as the Special Prosecutor.” Below is his full resignation letter RESIGNATION OF APPOINTMENT AS SPECIAL PROSECUTOR WITH IMMEDIATE EFFECT: MARTIN A. B. K. AMIDU, ESQ This is to inform the…

The Board Chair of the Zenith Bank, Freda Duplan, has asked the Bank of Ghana (BoG) to make deliberate efforts to support small and medium scale enterprises (SMEs) secure loans from banks to grow their businesses. She explained that some analysts are asking commercial banks to give out loans to the SMEs below the base points to enable them expand especially in times of the pandemic. However, she said, without the support of the central bank the commercial banks will not be able to give out loans below the base point. Ms Duplan was speaking during the Ghana Economic Forum…