[ 2016-11-29 ]

Martin Amidu steps up campaign against NDC
Former Attorney General and Minister of Justice,
Martin A.B.K. Amidu, has repeated his description
of the Mahama-led National Democratic Congress
(NDC) government as ‘kleptomaniac looter.’ He
has therefore, rallied the electorate not to
hesitate in kicking President Mahama and his team
out of office on December 7.

Mr. Amidu, who is a leading member of the ruling
party but appears to have fallen out with it over
widespread corruption matters, said that that
would be the surest way of getting the NDC’s
embattled financier, Alfred Agbesi Woyome, to
refund the GH¢51.2 million he unlawfully
collected from the state without any work done.

“Citizens, you have a choice to make. How much
longer will we hear stories of inadvertence,
mischief and connivance by an incumbent government
that strips the Republic’s coffers bare so that
ordinary Ghanaians must suffer financial hardship?
Put Ghana first; and let us get our looted money
back by voting the incumbent looter government out
on 7th December, 2016,” Mr. Amidu aka Citizen
Vigilante, charged in a statement released on
Sunday.

Spurious Allegation

Reacting to what he called “spurious
allegation” leveled against him by Mr. Woyome,
the former AG said it was clear that the
Mahama-led government is solidly behind Woyome to
keep the money and also making him (Woyome) to
unleash attacks on him.

He said President Mahama has personally been
accusing him (Amidu) of falsehood when he
(president) should have known that he (Amidu) was
never part of the decision to order the payment to
Woyome, saying if the government had not been
complicit in the whole matter, it would have come
to his defence when the embattled NDC financier
attacked him in the media.

Mr. Amidu said there was no way he would have
authorized the payment and that subsequent
investigations, including the
Sole-Commissioner’s report (for which the
government issued a White Paper) as well as the
Supreme Court, confirmed the fact that he had
nothing to do with the transaction.

“I heard him allege that I ordered or authorized
a September 2011 payment of the loot which the
Ministry of Finance paid to Woyome by transfer
into his accounts. These spurious allegations are
untrue and symptoms of mental exhaustion and
stress coming from the lootee of the public
purse.”

Gov’t Surrogate

Mr. Amidu said, “One would have expected that if
the lootee Woyome was not the surrogate of the
incumbent looter government, then the incumbent
government would have come to my defence because
it accepted the Commission of Enquiry report in a
White Paper. Instead, in his interviews on
television and radio, the president continues to
accuse me of falsehood and goads Woyome and his
ministers on to insult me via the electronic media
for defending the Constitution.

“It is clear where the incumbent government’s
support lies in the Woyome matter. The lootee,
Woyome, and the incumbent looter government
succeeded in their aim to do whatever it took for
the Supreme Court to reverse its decision and
order dated 16th November, 2016 in preventing me
from examining Woyome orally on oath on 24th
November, 2016. Woyome did not only file an
application to discharge or reverse the order for
his examination at 9.52 am on 23rd November,
2016.”

He said Mr. Woyome followed this up by filing at
1.30 pm an application for the stay of proceedings
“to disable me from examining him the next
morning,” adding, “It was not accidental that
the government which argued against my application
to examine Woyome orally on oath, on 10th
November, 2016 was this time round made the 2nd
Respondent in surrogate Woyome’s applications.
Common sense makes such tricks quite obvious to
the ordinary person.”

Woyome’s State

Citizen Vigilante said that Woyome’s outbursts
on radio appeared to be “contributions of
someone who is mentally exhausted, extremely tired
and frustrated, and his comments ought to be
ignored.”

“However, the files on this loot of the public
purse by the incumbent government for its lootee
and surrogate, Woyome, are in government custody
and one expects a dignified government to have
told the public by now that its surrogate is
pathologically adverse to the truth, especially
when he associates me with any payments of the
looted public purse or any proposed interest. The
incumbent government knows this is untrue, as its
own Commission of Enquiry has found.”

Mr. Amidu said although he had severally responded
to some of the allegations, “The media and the
public are being hoodwinked by Woyome’s outburst
and the incumbent government’s overwhelming
silence to set the records straight.”

Economic Hardships

“The fact remains that the people of Ghana are
enduring economic hardships now because of this
incumbent looter government of the public purse. I
entreat fellow citizens once more to read between
the lines and come to their own justified
conclusion that the only way the Republic and the
people of Ghana can get their looted Woyome money
back is to vote out this kleptomaniac looter
government and president on 7th December, 2016.”

Source - Daily Guide

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