{"id":465055,"date":"2018-02-16T22:30:37","date_gmt":"2018-02-16T22:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2018\/02\/16\/martin-amidu-becoming-popular-than-akufo-addo-ponkoh\/"},"modified":"2018-02-16T22:30:37","modified_gmt":"2018-02-16T22:30:37","slug":"martin-amidu-becoming-popular-than-akufo-addo-ponkoh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/02\/16\/martin-amidu-becoming-popular-than-akufo-addo-ponkoh\/","title":{"rendered":"Martin Amidu becoming popular than Akufo-Addo \u2013 Ponkoh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">Politics of Friday, 16 February 2018<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>ghanaguardian.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\/82892750.jpg\" alt=\"Yamoah Ponkoh Ndc\" title=\"Yamoah Ponkoh Ndc\" width=\"180\" height=\"268\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Yamoah Ponkoh, Former MCE of Ejisu\/Juaben<\/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\/1518820237_774_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\"> The Former Municipal Chief Executive of the Ejisu\/Juaben, Yamoah Ponkoh has stated that, the Special Prosecutor nominee Martin Amidu is being pampered beyond reason by Ghanaians.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on Nhyira FM, a Kumasi-based radio station, Mr Ponkoh said that &#8220;what kind of person is he&#8230;&#8230;there is nothing new he can bring on board as Special Prosecutor. What?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He further said, \u201cGhanaians are pampering him too much \u2026he is even becoming popular than President Akufo-Addo who appointed him\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The former Communicator of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) said \u201cI don\u2019t see him as a person who can fight corruption in government\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Martin Amidu was vetted by the Appointments Committee last Tuesday, February 15, 2018; an assessment exercise that lasted for over 7 hours.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Amidu\u2019s public vetting has received widespread commendation as many stakeholders believe he performed creditably.<\/p>\n<p>The Appointments Committee also unanimously recommended his confirmation moments after the grueling exercise.<\/p>\n<p>The Special Prosecutor nominee responded to over 180 questions from all members of the Committee in the session with most of the queries coming from the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Minority, and its leader, Haruna Iddrisu.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the questions focused on past statements and articles Martin Amidu had written.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/content.jwplatform.com\/players\/sEpSq20m-GtVgZhNx.html\" width=\"600\" height=\"350\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"auto\" allowfullscreen=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/content.jwplatform.com\/players\/LVEAx4HV-GtVgZhNx.html\" width=\"600\" height=\"350\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"auto\" allowfullscreen=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 35 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>Politics of Friday, 16 February 2018 Source: ghanaguardian.com 2018-02-16 Yamoah Ponkoh, Former MCE of Ejisu\/Juaben The Former Municipal Chief Executive of the Ejisu\/Juaben, Yamoah Ponkoh has stated that, the Special Prosecutor nominee Martin Amidu is being pampered beyond reason by Ghanaians. Speaking on Nhyira FM, a Kumasi-based radio station, Mr Ponkoh said that &#8220;what kind [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":465056,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-465055","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\/465055","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=465055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465055\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}