{"id":466668,"date":"2018-02-22T18:21:33","date_gmt":"2018-02-22T18:21:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2018\/02\/22\/citizenghana-movement-congratulates-special-prosecutor-martin-amidu\/"},"modified":"2018-02-22T18:21:33","modified_gmt":"2018-02-22T18:21:33","slug":"citizenghana-movement-congratulates-special-prosecutor-martin-amidu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/02\/22\/citizenghana-movement-congratulates-special-prosecutor-martin-amidu\/","title":{"rendered":"CitizenGhana Movement congratulates Special Prosecutor, 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 Thursday, 22 February 2018<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>take2live.com<\/p>\n<p>2018-02-22<\/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\/17438763.295.jpg\" alt=\"Awuah CitizenGhana\" title=\"Awuah CitizenGhana\" width=\"295\" height=\"197\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Nana Kwasi Awuah, Founding Member of CitizenGhana Movement<\/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\/1519323693_183_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\"> On Thursday 11th January, 2018, the President announced his acceptance of the Attorney \u2013 General\u2019s nomination of Hon. Martin ABK Amidu as Special Prosecutor. The announcement followed the presidential assent to the Office of the Special Prosecutor Act, 2017, Act 959, on 2nd January, 2018.<\/p>\n<p>This news received very popular welcome across the entire country. And hence it was not surprising to find that on 20th February, 2018, Hon. Martin Amidu was approved by Parliament after an overwhelming majority endorsement by the Appointment Committee of Parliament which subjected him to over seven hours of vetting.<\/p>\n<p>CitizenGhana Movement have come out to congratulate the Special Prosecutor. Hon. Martin Amidu and offered their greatest assurances of support to the Office of the Special Prosecutor. \u201cWe at the CitizenGhana Movement wish to join our fellow \u201ccountrymen and women\u201d to congratulate Hon. Martin Amidu on this historic appointment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It is disturbing to find that the 2017 Corruption Perceptions Index just released by Transparency International scores Ghana at 40. The 2017 score is a further decline in the previous years\u2019 scores \u2013 48 in 2014, 47 in 2015 and 43 in 2016. It is worth noting that the establishing legislation, the Office of the Special Prosecutor Act, has as one of its functions, \u201cto receive and investigate complaints from a person on a matter that involves or may involve corruption and corruption \u2013 related offences.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe wish to encourage all persons, citizens and non \u2013 citizens, natural and artificial, to take advantage of this provision to report cases of corruption and corruption \u2013 related offences. We find this to be in tandem with the constitutional obligation cast on all citizens in Article 41(f) \u201cto protect and preserve public property and expose and combat misuse and waste of public funds and property\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>CitizenGhana Movement offers itself as a medium through which persons may make such complaints of corruption and corruption \u2013 related offences to the Office of the Special Prosecutor.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"350\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sYFE_m-z32c\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cFinally, we offer our greatest assurances of support to the Office of th e Special Prosecutor and we call on all and sundry to do likewise. We have reposed a lot of confidence in the creation of the Office of the Special Prosecutor and especially in the man who is going to occupy that office for the first time. There is no iota of doubt that Hon. Martin Amidu shall discharge his duties creditably, dispassionately and without ill or favour.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"350\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mxu88RLkyGQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Ayekoo to Ghana\u2019s first Special Prosecutor.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"350\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/A8iSP6WGzDU\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"350\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zXRWgx17qR8\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/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>General News of Thursday, 22 February 2018 Source: take2live.com 2018-02-22 Nana Kwasi Awuah, Founding Member of CitizenGhana Movement On Thursday 11th January, 2018, the President announced his acceptance of the Attorney \u2013 General\u2019s nomination of Hon. Martin ABK Amidu as Special Prosecutor. 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