{"id":461888,"date":"2018-02-06T11:47:04","date_gmt":"2018-02-06T11:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2018\/02\/06\/amidu-is-a-hypocrite-for-accepting-special-prosecutor-job-ndc\/"},"modified":"2018-02-06T11:47:04","modified_gmt":"2018-02-06T11:47:04","slug":"amidu-is-a-hypocrite-for-accepting-special-prosecutor-job-ndc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/02\/06\/amidu-is-a-hypocrite-for-accepting-special-prosecutor-job-ndc\/","title":{"rendered":"Amidu is a hypocrite for accepting Special Prosecutor job \u2013 NDC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/48611313.295.jpg\" alt=\"Aseidu Martin\" title=\"Aseidu Martin\" width=\"295\" height=\"148\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Johnson Aseidu Nketia, General Secretary of the NDC and Martin Amidu<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n<p>\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=151125817929577\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151125817929577\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/1517917624_728_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\"> The opposition National Democratic Congress has alleged that Martin Amidu is a hypocrite for accepting the nomination of President Akufo-Addo to become Ghana\u2019s first Special Prosecutor.<\/p>\n<p>The statement, however, reminded Mr Amidu that, who was a former attorney general, that he criticized the special prosecutor&#8217;s bill.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur issue with the nomination of Mr. Martin Amidu is based purely and solely on important matters of principle. We note among others that Mr. Amidu has previously published a document challenging the constitutionality of the newly established Office of Special Prosecutor, the very office he has accepted to occupy,\u201d the NDC statement said.<\/p>\n<p>The NDC referred Mr Amidu to the article he wrote punching holes into the special prosecutor&#8217;s bill but did not rubbish its importance and constitutionality.<\/p>\n<p>In his 25-page paper critiquing aspects of the Bill, Mr. Amidu questioned the inclusion of a clause that he said sought to limit the Special Prosecutor to specific crimes.<\/p>\n<p>He also argued that the Special Public Prosecutor nominee did not need parliamentary approval.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Johnson Aseidu Nketia, General Secretary of the NDC and Martin Amidu The opposition National Democratic Congress has alleged that Martin Amidu is a hypocrite for accepting the nomination of President Akufo-Addo to become Ghana\u2019s first Special Prosecutor. The statement, however, reminded Mr Amidu that, who was a former attorney general, that he criticized the special [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":461889,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-461888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=461888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461888\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}