{"id":463999,"date":"2018-02-13T15:50:04","date_gmt":"2018-02-13T15:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2018\/02\/13\/rawlings-is-my-referee-because-he-brought-me-into-politics-amidu\/"},"modified":"2018-02-13T15:50:04","modified_gmt":"2018-02-13T15:50:04","slug":"rawlings-is-my-referee-because-he-brought-me-into-politics-amidu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/02\/13\/rawlings-is-my-referee-because-he-brought-me-into-politics-amidu\/","title":{"rendered":"Rawlings is my referee because he brought me into politics &#8211; Amidu"},"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\/48377336.295.jpg\" alt=\"Rawlings 2018\" title=\"Rawlings 2018\" width=\"295\" height=\"208\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Former President John Rawlings<\/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=151125813973067\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151125813973067\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/1518537004_445_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">President Nana Akufo-Addo\u2019s nominee for Office of Special Prosecutor Martin Amidu has told the Appointments Committee of Parliament that he listed former President of Ghana, Jerry John Rawlings, founder of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) as his Referee on his Curriculum Vitae because the former President brought him into politics and mentored him.<\/p>\n<p>Still responding to questions from members of the Appointments Committee, Martin Amidu said \u201cRawlings brought me into politics\u2026 It was Rawlings who fought to reduced corruption drastically in this country. He fought corruption and he brought me into politics for the first time\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRawlings is the one who brought me into politics and if anyone would know me better, then it must be him\u2026despite what anybody says about him, he reduced corruption to the barest minimum.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr Amidu also expressed his profound happiness and appreciation to the former President for issuing a public statement in support of his (Martin Amidu\u2019s) nomination as Special Prosecutor.<\/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>Former President John Rawlings President Nana Akufo-Addo\u2019s nominee for Office of Special Prosecutor Martin Amidu has told the Appointments Committee of Parliament that he listed former President of Ghana, Jerry John Rawlings, founder of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) as his Referee on his Curriculum Vitae because the former President brought him into politics and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":464000,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-463999","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\/463999","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=463999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463999\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}