{"id":464043,"date":"2018-02-13T18:42:16","date_gmt":"2018-02-13T18:42:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2018\/02\/13\/i-cant-live-in-harmony-with-criminals-martin-amidu\/"},"modified":"2018-02-13T18:42:16","modified_gmt":"2018-02-13T18:42:16","slug":"i-cant-live-in-harmony-with-criminals-martin-amidu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/02\/13\/i-cant-live-in-harmony-with-criminals-martin-amidu\/","title":{"rendered":"I can\u2019t live in harmony with criminals \u2013 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>classfmonline.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\/01\/96133763.295.jpg\" alt=\"Amidu76\" title=\"Amidu76\" width=\"295\" height=\"204\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Special Prosecutor nominee 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\/1518547336_889_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\"> Special Prosecutor nominee Martin Amidu has said he abhors criminals and traitors.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can\u2019t live in harmony with criminals and traitors\u201d, Mr Amidu told Parliament\u2019s Appointments Committee on Tuesday, 13 February during his vetting, adding that: \u201cDecent people, I will live with them but criminals, I can\u2019t\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Mr Amidu has said Ghana is not a cow to be milked, and, so, will do everything possible, if approved by parliament, to block all leakages and fight against graft.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Amidu told the committee that he was the best man for the job, since he has been a very meticulous man throughout his public office life \u201cand that is why if you want anybody who will be meticulous in investigating and prosecuting, the president has made the best choice for you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He, thus, told the committee that \u201cif you want anybody who will look the other way, just disapprove me\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>According to Mr Amidu, he was \u201cso meticulous\u201d that unless a \u201ccontract was in the national interest, I rejected it\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Amidu, at his vetting, also warned that he will catch the thieves who are plundering Ghana\u2019s resources if he is approved by parliament.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have to set up strong institutions if we are to succeed,\u201d warning: \u201cIf we don\u2019t set up strong institutions, we are going to replicate the office of the special prosecutor as we did with other institutions, [and] we will have a problem.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In his view, \u201cThe way forward I see is that the [Office of Special Prosecutor] Act, permits us to set up departments that will help us to do our work\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I\u2019m appointed and my deputy is appointed and the board is appointed and we have the complement of staff, I will lead them to explore ways of catching the thief, so that if my employees are taking bribe, I\u2019ll have a way of knowing that they are.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI mean there are various ways of intelligence and security to do this. The FBI and other bodies have done it, we will do it, so, it\u2019s not going to be a situation in which you\u2019ll think that working in my office is just a holiday, no, no.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe shall make sure that we get into it, we\u2019ll haul you there because Caesar\u2019s wife must be above suspicion, and, I, when you approve of me, must be the first one above suspicion, I\u2019ve demonstrated it before in positions I\u2019ve held and I\u2019m going to make sure that I myself am above suspicion\u201d, Mr Amidu said.<\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 55 updated by: 55 --><\/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: classfmonline.com 2018-02-13 Special Prosecutor nominee Martin Amidu Special Prosecutor nominee Martin Amidu has said he abhors criminals and traitors. \u201cI can\u2019t live in harmony with criminals and traitors\u201d, Mr Amidu told Parliament\u2019s Appointments Committee on Tuesday, 13 February during his vetting, adding that: \u201cDecent people, I will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":454505,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-464043","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\/464043","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=464043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464043\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}