{"id":467644,"date":"2018-02-26T10:30:33","date_gmt":"2018-02-26T10:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2018\/02\/26\/isaac-adongo-likens-martin-amidu-to-cristiano-ronaldo-at-stoke-city\/"},"modified":"2018-02-26T10:30:33","modified_gmt":"2018-02-26T10:30:33","slug":"isaac-adongo-likens-martin-amidu-to-cristiano-ronaldo-at-stoke-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/02\/26\/isaac-adongo-likens-martin-amidu-to-cristiano-ronaldo-at-stoke-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Isaac Adongo likens Martin Amidu to Cristiano Ronaldo at Stoke City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">Politics of Monday, 26 February 2018<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>mynewsgh.com<\/p>\n<p>2018-02-26<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/12083128.295.jpg\" alt=\"Adongo MP NEW\" title=\"Adongo MP NEW\" width=\"295\" height=\"176\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Bolga Central MP, Isaac Adongo<\/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\/1519641033_910_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">Member of Parliament for Bolgatanga Central Constituency, Mr Isaac Adongo, has played up the legal credentials of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), explaining that the recent appointment of one of its members, Mr Martin Amidu, as Special Prosecutor (SP), amounted to a lower division football team signing a world-class player from a top-flight club.<\/p>\n<p>He said his appointment by the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) showed that the NDC was a party of superstars that can be relied upon to properly prosecute the development agenda of the country<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were told that Mr Amidu is such a stature that by his nomination, he had finished fighting corruption. So, what did President Jerry Rawlings, the man who found Mr Amidu many years ago when he was still a brilliant young man, do?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe man who found him couldn\u2019t fight corruption to the end. The man who made him Attorney General (President Atta-Mills), couldn\u2019t fight corruption to the end but the man who suddenly found him in 2018 after winning power is the one who has succeeded in fighting corruption and should be praised,\u201d he asked at forum organised by pro-NDC group, Coalition for Restoration (CFR).<\/p>\n<p>It was under the theme: \u2018The True State of the Nation\u2019 and meant to give the panellists the opportunity to present the NDC\u2019s perspective on the state of affairs in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Making preliminary comments prior to the start of his presentation, which centred on the economy, Mr Adongo said the government\u2019s posture after the appointment of the Mr Amidu as SP it had won the fight against corruption.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut I want to ask a simple question; if you go to sign Cristiano Ronaldo from Real Madrid and take him to Stoke City and he comes to play with average players and you say you have won? Clearly, this man will be lost in the midst of mediocre.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, they (NPP) came to NDC and signed one of our superstars, forgetting that for one Martin Amidu, we have thousands of them,\u201d he said to applause.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnfortunately, Mr Amidu is going to work with a team that is mediocre.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you sign me from Real Madrid to Stoke City, I may just go for the money but not trophies because there, there, I will be a one-man team. That is what is going to happen at the Attorney General\u2019s Department; one superstar from the NDC, who will be meeting those superstars he left behind,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Amidu, a former Attorney General and Minister of Justice, was appointed SP by President Nana Akufo-Addo, in January and subsequently approved by Parliament in February.<\/p>\n<p>He takes office as the first person as part of a range of measures by the government to help fight misappropriation of public funds.<\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 38 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 Monday, 26 February 2018 Source: mynewsgh.com 2018-02-26 Bolga Central MP, Isaac Adongo Member of Parliament for Bolgatanga Central Constituency, Mr Isaac Adongo, has played up the legal credentials of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), explaining that the recent appointment of one of its members, Mr Martin Amidu, as Special Prosecutor (SP), amounted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":460100,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-467644","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\/467644","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=467644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467644\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}