{"id":464362,"date":"2018-02-14T18:37:30","date_gmt":"2018-02-14T18:37:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2018\/02\/14\/a-name-is-a-nonsense-syllable-martin-amidu\/"},"modified":"2018-02-14T18:37:30","modified_gmt":"2018-02-14T18:37:30","slug":"a-name-is-a-nonsense-syllable-martin-amidu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/02\/14\/a-name-is-a-nonsense-syllable-martin-amidu\/","title":{"rendered":"A name is a nonsense syllable \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 Wednesday, 14 February 2018<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>www.ghanaweb.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\/36354627.295.jpg\" alt=\"Martin Amidu      \" title=\"Martin Amidu      \" width=\"295\" height=\"196\" \/><span class=\"play-icon\">play video<\/span><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Martin Amidu, Former Attorney General<\/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\/1518633450_859_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">Special Prosecutor nominee, Martin Alamisi Amidu has defined \u2018name\u2019 as a \u2018nonsense syllable\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Martin Amidu said this when asked to explain how he got all his five names during his vetting by the Appointments Committee of Parliament Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p>According to him, \u2018Alamisi\u2019 was given to him because of the day he was born and after he was baptized he chose Martin.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I was born, my birth-day was used to call me because in some customs babies are not named immediately so the Alamisi followed me,\u201d he said <\/p>\n<p>Amidu said, he got the name \u2018Burnes\u2019 when he was at the Bawku middle boarding school<\/p>\n<p>With a smile on his face, he said, \u201cwhen we were at Bawku middle boarding, there was a picture of Sir Alan Burnes and everybody called me Alan Burnes\u2026 so I decided to call myself Burns\u201d. <\/p>\n<p>The nominee said he got the name \u2018Kaiser\u2019 while at the commercial school<\/p>\n<p>According to him, he read about the German Kaiser in his history class and he grew fond of him thus the adoption of his name.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI became the dining hall prefect and each time I stood to talk my friends would say, silent the Kaiser speaks,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The Special Prosecutor nominee noted that he bears the name \u2018Amidu\u2019 because it was his father\u2019s name <\/p>\n<p>Martin Alamisi Burnes Kaiser Amidu said at one point in his life he wanted to drop all his names and only maintain Alamisi Amidu but as he entered law school and read about Garvey Williams who said \u201cwhat is there in a name, a name is a nonsense syllable\u201d so he decided to keep them.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/content.jwplatform.com\/players\/3QDNxZFp-GtVgZhNx.html\" width=\"600\" height=\"350\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"auto\" allowfullscreen=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 57 updated by: 3 --><\/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: www.ghanaweb.com 2018-02-14 play videoMartin Amidu, Former Attorney General Special Prosecutor nominee, Martin Alamisi Amidu has defined \u2018name\u2019 as a \u2018nonsense syllable\u2019. Martin Amidu said this when asked to explain how he got all his five names during his vetting by the Appointments Committee of Parliament Tuesday. 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