{"id":464009,"date":"2018-02-13T16:12:14","date_gmt":"2018-02-13T16:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2018\/02\/13\/i-accepted-special-prosecutor-post-to-prevent-corruption-excuse-for-coups-martin-amidu\/"},"modified":"2018-02-13T16:12:14","modified_gmt":"2018-02-13T16:12:14","slug":"i-accepted-special-prosecutor-post-to-prevent-corruption-excuse-for-coups-martin-amidu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/02\/13\/i-accepted-special-prosecutor-post-to-prevent-corruption-excuse-for-coups-martin-amidu\/","title":{"rendered":"I accepted Special Prosecutor post to prevent corruption excuse for coups &#8211; Martin Amidu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">General News of Tuesday, 13 February 2018<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>Myjoyonline.com <\/p>\n<p>2018-02-13<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/58102055.295.jpg\" alt=\"Martin Vetting\" title=\"Martin Vetting\" width=\"295\" height=\"140\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>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=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\/1518538334_436_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">Nominee for Special Prosecutor, Martin Amidu, says he considers his nomination as a fine opportunity to prevent any future coups.<\/p>\n<p>Martin Amidu said coup makers have in the past, justified overthrowing governments because of endemic corruption.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is important that this country is stabilised. It is important that nobody makes an excuse to make a coup,&#8221; he told MPs who are vetting his nomination at the Appointments Committee, Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Born 1951, Martin Amidu has witnessed all of five coups and remembers how Generals were accused of corruption just for taking bank loans.<\/p>\n<p>Returning to democratic rule in 1992 after the last coup in December 1981, Martin Amidu said he played a significant role in drafting the 1992 constitution which he believes is to ensure accountability and good governance.<\/p>\n<p>But the anti-corruption campaigner has witnessed pervasive corruption even under the fourth republic which has produced five presidents to date.<\/p>\n<p>He said President Jerry Rawlings, who was the first president under the 4th Republic, did well to fight corruption but could not uproot it.<\/p>\n<p>He has observed the canker has particularly been pervasive under the previous administration. Amidu believes the 1992 constitution is under threat if corruption goes on unchecked.<\/p>\n<p>He said he turned down an offer to join the Supreme Court in 1999. He recalled that Justice William Atuguba and Justice Bampo-Addo tried to prevail on him to accept the post.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But I will not change my mind,&#8221; he told MPs.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This [rejection] is to demonstrate that my acceptance of Special Prosecutor is&#8230; because of the high ideals which I attach to making sure the ordinary people of this country can have the benefit of the resources of this country&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8230; by stopping the leakages and slippages that have gone on since the coming into force of 1992 constitution&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>He indicated that he considers the role an important in honouring the memories of those together with whom he helped draft the 1992 constitution.<\/p>\n<p>Martin Amidu said despite accepting the post, he had problems with the law creating the Special Prosecutor which he has pointed out to President Nana Akufo-Addo.<\/p>\n<p>But he has come to an understanding that &#8220;whatever is there is with the law; the fight against the constitution must go on&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You don&#8217;t throw the baby with the bathwater&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 63 updated by: 63 --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Start of html generated by this->footer() -->\n<\/div>\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>General News of Tuesday, 13 February 2018 Source: Myjoyonline.com 2018-02-13 Martin Amidu Nominee for Special Prosecutor, Martin Amidu, says he considers his nomination as a fine opportunity to prevent any future coups. Martin Amidu said coup makers have in the past, justified overthrowing governments because of endemic corruption. &#8220;It is important that this country is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":463963,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-464009","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\/464009","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=464009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464009\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}