{"id":662565,"date":"2019-07-23T13:13:49","date_gmt":"2019-07-23T13:13:49","guid":{"rendered":"<br><div>\n\t\t<p><strong>Martin Amidu<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A report by the CID exonerating Charles O. Bissue, who served as secretary to the Inter-Ministerial Committee on Illegal Mining (IMCIM), in the Anas and his Tiger Eye PI galamsey expose\u2019, has riled Speci"},"modified":"2019-07-23T13:13:49","modified_gmt":"2019-07-23T13:13:49","slug":"amidu-cid-clash-over-anas-tape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/07\/23\/amidu-cid-clash-over-anas-tape\/","title":{"rendered":"Amidu, CID Clash Over Anas Tape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Martin Amidu<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A report by the CID exonerating Charles O. Bissue, who served as secretary to the Inter-Ministerial Committee on Illegal Mining (IMCIM), in the Anas and his Tiger Eye PI galamsey expose\u2019, has riled Special Prosecutor Martin Amidu.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Amidu has said his office is investigating the case and has written to the CID to stop a parallel investigation, but said the police refused and came out with its report. In spite of that, he said he was going ahead with his investigation, adding \u201clet\u2019s see who will stop me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>CID Report<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to the CID report, there was no wrongdoing on the part of Mr. Bissue, a presidential staffer who stepped aside to avail himself for investigations after the Anas-Tiger Eye PI documentary which exposed alleged corruption in the activities of IMCIM.<\/p>\n<p>The Anas documentary had said the secretary was involved in \u2018shady\u2019 deals to facilitate processes for a mining firm called ORR Resource Enterprise but the law firm, Ampofo, Oppong &amp; Associates, representing Mr. Bissue, said yesterday that the CID report did not find any wrongdoing against their client, insisting that Mr. Bissue was not found to be culpable for any offence per the report.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Amidu\u2019s Reaction<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mr. Amidu has entered the fray saying it is the Office of the Special Prosecutor that is supposed to investigate the issue and not the police, saying \u201cI\u2019ve told you I wrote to the Director-General, CID, that it wasn\u2019t her jurisdiction.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe commenced investigations but before I could invite the suspect, I read a newspaper publication in which Charles Bissue said that the CID was investigating his case and that the complainant should go there and make their evidence. So, I wrote to the Director-General of the CID to tell her that the offences of corruption have been apportioned to the Office of the Special Prosecutor. We have been petitioned; we have indicated that we are going to begin investigations. There shouldn\u2019t be duplicity of our efforts, so she should stop it,\u201d he said on <em>Citi FM<\/em> in Accra yesterday.<\/p>\n<p><strong>CID Reply<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He said the CID boss wrote back to say that she had been instructed by the Minister of Environment, who is the chairman of that organisation (IMCIM) and the Ministry for the Interior to investigate and went ahead to do it, adding \u201cI wrote objecting very strongly and then I began the investigations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said he took a statement from Mr. Bissue and all those involved in the documentary, including the complainant and said there was a video involved but he has personally not watched it because he is not the investigator, adding \u201cI don\u2019t know what was written to the investigators and the docket hasn\u2019t reached where it will come to me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Knotty Points<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are some knotty points which have to be trashed out before the docket will be brought to us because the complainant has given a statement. Mr Anas AremeyawAnas sent us a letter a few days ago that he wanted to be a witness and I told him I couldn\u2019t guarantee the conditions under which he wanted to be a witness but he could bring a written statement. He came for statement forms. He is to submit them. When all that is done \u2013 because the complainant and the suspects have all given evidence, the material which is the video is there, I don\u2019t know what it says \u2013 [and] when we\u2019ve gone through that process, we shall make a decision whether there\u2019s corruption offence committed or not.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>No Jurisdiction<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mr. Amidu added, \u201cSo, the case is with us. I\u2019ve told the CID that they don\u2019t have jurisdiction. I\u2019ve written to the Minister for the Interior; I\u2019ve copied the Jubilee House and said that we cannot concurrently investigate it. You either want to set up an office to investigate corruption or when it suits you, you send it to the police. So, the matter is being investigated by us. When the docket is brought up, we shall make a decision whether or not there\u2019s a case to answer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He imputed political motives in his work when he said, \u201cPeople choose to interfere with my corruption investigations when they think it doesn\u2019t suit them but we have to do professional work \u2013 impartially. I have been brought here to do a job and that\u2019s what I\u2019m going to do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>By Melvin Tarlue<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Martin Amidu A report by the CID exonerating Charles O. Bissue, who served as secretary to the Inter-Ministerial Committee on Illegal Mining (IMCIM), in the Anas and his Tiger Eye PI galamsey expose\u2019, has riled Special Prosecutor Martin Amidu. 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