General News of Friday, 15 November 2019
Source: www.ghanaweb.com
2019-11-15
Special Prosecutor, Martin Amidu
On this day, 15th November 2015 (Exactly four years ago), US based Lawyer, Prof. Stephen Kwaku Asare popularly known as Prof Azaar stated that the then former attorney general, now Special Prosecutor, Martin Amidu made childish and meaningless comments about undercover journalist, Anas Aremeyaw Anas’ expose on corruption in the judiciary, and as such he ‘has nothing useful to offer’ as far as the judicial corruption scandal is concerned.
Martin Amidu accused Anas Aremeyaw, of doing the bidding of ex-president John Dramani Mahama’s government to disgrace the Judiciary after the latter released tapes of his undercover investigation, exposing practices of corrupt judges.
According to Prof. Asare, Martin Amidu’s unnecessary comments was a tactic to sway the media away from the core of the issue.
“I have studied all the submissions of Amidu on Anas’ undercover investigation of the judiciary. There is no iota of wisdom or sound legal reasoning in Amidu’s assertions. In my opinion, he is allowing his apparent political quarrels with the President to cloud his judgment. Amidu has nothing useful to offer in this judicial saga and seems to be distracting the media from focusing on issues that matter. His questions are infantile and seem to confuse undercover journalism with security services,” he said.
Prof. Asare encouraged the media to ignore the childish statements of Martin Amidu and pay attention instead to, the hold-up in the prosecution of the judges.
“The media should stop glorifying Amidu’s palpable self-aggrandizement and focus on the delay in the prosecution of the corrupt judges,” he concluded.
Read the full story as published on Ghanaweb on 15th November 2015 below;
Respected US-based lawyer Prof. Stephen Kwaku Asare believes former attorney general Martin Amidu must be ignored because “he has nothing useful to offer” as far as the judicial corruption scandal is concerned.
Amidu and undercover journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas have been at each other’s throat after the former accused the latter of doing the government’s bidding to spite the judiciary.
The former Interior Minister has gone ahead to call President John Mahama names such as a “dishonest and disgraceful Northerner.”
Prof. Asare feels Amidu is embarking on a diversionary move to sway the media’s attention from the crux of the main issue.
“I have studied all the submissions of Amidu on Anas’ undercover investigation of the judiciary. There is no iota of wisdom or sound legal reasoning in Amidu’s assertions. In my opinion, he is allowing his apparent political quarrels with the President to cloud his judgment,” the accounting professor said in a Facebook post.
“Amidu has nothing useful to offer in this judicial saga and seems to be distracting the media from focusing on issues that matter. His questions are infantile and seem to confuse undercover journalism with security services.
“If Amidu’s hooey that the President’s conduct will preclude a northener from being elected as President in the next 3 decades, then equally the Vice-President’s conduct should preclude a southener from being elected as Vice-President during the same time period.
“The media should stop glorifying Amidu’s palpable self aggrandizement and focus on the delay in the prosecution of the corrupt judges.”
