{"id":465423,"date":"2018-02-18T21:10:56","date_gmt":"2018-02-18T21:10:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2018\/02\/18\/buabeng-asamoahs-stunning-confession-minutes-after-amidus-appointment-as-sp\/"},"modified":"2018-02-18T21:10:56","modified_gmt":"2018-02-18T21:10:56","slug":"buabeng-asamoahs-stunning-confession-minutes-after-amidus-appointment-as-sp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/02\/18\/buabeng-asamoahs-stunning-confession-minutes-after-amidus-appointment-as-sp\/","title":{"rendered":"Buabeng Asamoah&#8217;s stunning confession minutes after Amidu&#8217;s appointment as SP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">General News of Sunday, 18 February 2018<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>peacefmonline.com<\/p>\n<p>2018-02-18<\/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\/98360561.jpg\" alt=\"Yaw Buabeng Asamoah Specs\" title=\"Yaw Buabeng Asamoah Specs\" width=\"284\" height=\"177\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Yaw Buabeng Asamoah, Adenta MP<\/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\/1518988256_754_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\"> The Member of Parliament (MP) for Adenta, Yaw Buabeng Asamoah has disclosed his first reaction when he heard Martin Amidu, has been nominated by President Akufo-Addo as the Special Prosecutor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet me confess; on the day of the appointment, I have just walked out of a cash-for-seat sitting and spoken to the media and as I swivelled from the interview, one of the young men run to me and said Martin is the special prosecutor; it didn\u2019t click, I was walking away and then the young man said the President had nominated Martin Amidu as the special prosecutor, what do you say? I ran away from the mic. I had to collect my thought; what has the President done? That was what I thought\u2026\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Contributing to a panel discussion on Joy FM\u2019s newsfile, Saturday, Buabeng Asamoah added that the President\u2019s decision to nominate Martin Amidu was a \u2018bold move\u2019 and that after watching his marathon vetting, \u201cI am convinced that only Martin Amidu can establish this office properly\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the most audacious move an African president could ever make; appoint somebody of the other divide\u2026Nana is going purely on the question of restoring trust in fighting corruption\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo nominated Former Attorney General Martin Alamisi Burns Kaiser Amidu as the Special Prosecutor.<\/p>\n<p>According to President Akufo-Addo, the Attorney General, Gloria Akuffo, by a letter dated Thursday, 11th January 2018, exercised her power of nomination, and submitted to him, for his acceptance, the name of Martin Amidu as the proposed Special Prosecutor.<\/p>\n<p>Subsequently, Mr. Amidu, on Tuesday, February 13, faced Parliament\u2019s Appointments Committee in a marathon vetting that lasted several hours.<\/p>\n<p>Parliament will consider the report of the Appointments Committee on the nomination of Martin Amidu as Special Prosecutor on Tuesday, February 20, 2018.<\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 73 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 Sunday, 18 February 2018 Source: peacefmonline.com 2018-02-18 Yaw Buabeng Asamoah, Adenta MP The Member of Parliament (MP) for Adenta, Yaw Buabeng Asamoah has disclosed his first reaction when he heard Martin Amidu, has been nominated by President Akufo-Addo as the Special Prosecutor. \u201cLet me confess; on the day of the appointment, I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":465424,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-465423","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\/465423","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=465423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465423\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}