{"id":464798,"date":"2018-02-16T06:11:04","date_gmt":"2018-02-16T06:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2018\/02\/16\/ghanaians-over-pampering-martin-amidu-yamoah-ponkoh\/"},"modified":"2018-02-16T06:11:04","modified_gmt":"2018-02-16T06:11:04","slug":"ghanaians-over-pampering-martin-amidu-yamoah-ponkoh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/02\/16\/ghanaians-over-pampering-martin-amidu-yamoah-ponkoh\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghanaians over pampering Martin Amidu &#8211; Yamoah Ponkoh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">General News of Friday, 16 February 2018<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>mynewsgh.com<\/p>\n<p>2018-02-16<\/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\/47616579.295.jpg\" alt=\"Ponkoh   \" title=\"Ponkoh   \" width=\"295\" height=\"183\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Yaw Afrifa Yamoah Ponkoh<\/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\/1518761464_905_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">Former Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) of Ejisu\/Jauben in the Ashanti Region under the erstwhile National Democratic Congress (NDC), Hon. Yaw Afrifa Yamoah Ponkoh believes, the nominee for the Special Prosecutor position, Mr. Martin B.K.A Amidu is enjoying the goodwill of many Ghanaians.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGhanaians are pampering him too much \u2026he is even becoming popular than President Akufo-Addo who appointed him\u201d, the former government appointee observed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat kind of person is he\u2026..there is nothing new he can bring onboard as Special Prosecutor.What?\u201d, Hon. Afrifa Yamoah Ponko quizzed on Kumasi-based Nhyira FM\u2019s morning show<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t see him as a person who can fight corruption in government\u201d, the NDC Communicator told host Aduanaba Kofi Asante Ennin during a panel discussion.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, ace Broadcast Journalist, Paul Adom Otchere, believes the immense public support for Martin Amidu, may have already determined the course of lawsuit against him over his age.<\/p>\n<p>Commenting on the lawsuit, Mr. Adom Otchere remarked that \u201cthe courts, historically, will not rule to affect the higher expectations of society. Typically they may not do that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/content.jwplatform.com\/players\/TCQELaCk-GtVgZhNx.html\" width=\"600\" height=\"350\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"auto\" allowfullscreen=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A former Deputy Attorney General, Dr. Dominic Ayine, in a lawsuit, argues that Mr. Amidu, aged 66 years, has exceeded the age for such public office holders, per Article 199 of the constitution.<\/p>\n<p>He said it would be unconstitutional for Parliament to approve the nominee seeking a declaration from the Supreme Court that Mr. Amidu is not qualified or eligible to be nominated as the Special Prosecutor.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/content.jwplatform.com\/players\/mscZyoLP-GtVgZhNx.html\" width=\"600\" height=\"350\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"auto\" allowfullscreen=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 26 updated by: 26 --><\/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 Friday, 16 February 2018 Source: mynewsgh.com 2018-02-16 Yaw Afrifa Yamoah Ponkoh Former Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) of Ejisu\/Jauben in the Ashanti Region under the erstwhile National Democratic Congress (NDC), Hon. Yaw Afrifa Yamoah Ponkoh believes, the nominee for the Special Prosecutor position, Mr. Martin B.K.A Amidu is enjoying the goodwill of many [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":464799,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-464798","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\/464798","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=464798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464798\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}