{"id":464832,"date":"2018-02-16T08:48:55","date_gmt":"2018-02-16T08:48:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2018\/02\/16\/togbe-afede-lauds-akufo-addo-for-naming-amidu-as-special-prosecutor\/"},"modified":"2018-02-16T08:48:55","modified_gmt":"2018-02-16T08:48:55","slug":"togbe-afede-lauds-akufo-addo-for-naming-amidu-as-special-prosecutor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/02\/16\/togbe-afede-lauds-akufo-addo-for-naming-amidu-as-special-prosecutor\/","title":{"rendered":"Togbe Afede lauds Akufo-Addo for naming Amidu as Special Prosecutor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/47711476.295.jpg\" alt=\"Afede Mob\" title=\"Afede Mob\" width=\"295\" height=\"184\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>President of National House of Chiefs, Togbe Afede XIV<\/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\/1518770935_944_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\"> The president of the National House of Chiefs, Togbe Afede XIV, has commended president Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo for his choice of Martin Amidu as special prosecutor to deal with corruption in the country.<\/p>\n<p>He also applauded the Appointments Committee of parliament for endorsing Mr Amidu&#8217;s nomination as Ghana\u2019s first special prosecutor.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I congratulate the president of the Republic of Ghana for his bold choice of Martin Amidu as our first special prosecutor and I also want to commend the appointment committee of parliament for endorsing his nomination,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>The Agbogbomefia of the Asogli State said this at the first general meeting of the National House of Chiefs held in Kumasi on Thursday, 15 February 2018.<\/p>\n<p>He expressed happiness about government\u2019s interest in accountability in the country noting that, the nation cannot develop without accountability.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Amidu, a former Attorney General, was vetted on Tuesday, 13 February 2018 by the Appointments Committee. He will carry out the extraordinary responsibility of independently fighting corruption.<\/p>\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>President of National House of Chiefs, Togbe Afede XIV The president of the National House of Chiefs, Togbe Afede XIV, has commended president Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo for his choice of Martin Amidu as special prosecutor to deal with corruption in the country. He also applauded the Appointments Committee of parliament for endorsing Mr Amidu&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":399608,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-464832","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\/464832","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=464832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464832\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}