{"id":464350,"date":"2018-02-14T17:32:58","date_gmt":"2018-02-14T17:32:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2018\/02\/14\/my-father-is-qualified-for-special-prosecutor-job-amidus-daughter\/"},"modified":"2018-02-14T17:32:58","modified_gmt":"2018-02-14T17:32:58","slug":"my-father-is-qualified-for-special-prosecutor-job-amidus-daughter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/02\/14\/my-father-is-qualified-for-special-prosecutor-job-amidus-daughter\/","title":{"rendered":"My father is qualified for Special Prosecutor job \u2013 Amidu\u2019s daughter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">General News of Wednesday, 14 February 2018<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>Starrfmonline.com <\/p>\n<p>2018-02-14<\/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\/22873210.295.jpg\" alt=\"Hagar Amidu2\" title=\"Hagar Amidu2\" width=\"295\" height=\"169\" \/><span class=\"play-icon\">play video<\/span><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Hagar 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\/1518629578_25_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">Hagar Amidu, daughter of the Special Prosecutor nominee, Martin Amidu has described her father as \u201cvery qualified\u201d for the job.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Amidu has already been approved unanimously by the Appointments Committee of Parliament, Starr News has learnt.<\/p>\n<p>The approval, according to credible sources, was made hours after the almost nine-hour grilling of the former attorney general.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe did very well. This is not his first time,\u201d Hagar told Starr News\u2019 Parliamentary Correspondent Ibrahim Alhassan minutes after the vetting of her father ended. Extolling her father\u2019s absolute abhorrence for all forms of corruption, she noted that he is the man to clamp down on the canker.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe is very qualified,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p><b>Amidu\u2019s firmness good for Ghana<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The Executive Director of the Institute of Democratic Governance (IDEG) Dr. Emmanuel Akwetey commended Special Prosecutor nominee Martin Amidu for his \u2018firmness\u2019 at the Appointments Committee.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the former attorney general exhibited passion towards the state, despite the long hours of grilling by the appointments committee.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMartin Amidu is firm on what he thinks is wrong and I think that was a good one. I think Martin Amidu connected very well with the people. If you do not have passion, you cannot fight the course of the people. He really showed that he was experienced. He demonstrated that indeed he was a constitutional activist,\u201d Akwetey noted.<\/p>\n<p><b>Amidu exudes hope<\/b><\/p>\n<p>According to Policy think-tank, IMANI the special prosecutor nominee will live above reproach following a marathon vetting session.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u201cWe at IMANI have greater faith in him that he will work without negative pride, prejudice and preference towards anyone. Amidu is content with what life throws at him and he says it without shame that his asset declaration form wouldn\u2019t be the envy of many a public servant,\u201d IMANI said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/content.jwplatform.com\/players\/1bhdIKRD-GtVgZhNx.html\" width=\"600\" height=\"350\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"auto\" allowfullscreen=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 32 updated by: -1 --><\/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 Wednesday, 14 February 2018 Source: Starrfmonline.com 2018-02-14 play videoHagar Amidu Hagar Amidu, daughter of the Special Prosecutor nominee, Martin Amidu has described her father as \u201cvery qualified\u201d for the job. Mr. Amidu has already been approved unanimously by the Appointments Committee of Parliament, Starr News has learnt. The approval, according to credible [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":464351,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-464350","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\/464350","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=464350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}