[ 2016-12-13 ]

PPP Vice-Chair wants Amidu in Akufo-Addo’s government
President-elect Nana Akufo-Addo has been urged to
consider appointing former NDC Vice-Presidential
candidate Martin Amidu into his government.

Second Vice-Chair of the Progressive Peoples’
Party Belinda Bulley says Amidu fits perfectly
into the position of the Independent Prosecutor,
an office the NPP has promised to create
ostensibly to fight corruption.

Martin Amidu poularly know as 'Citizen Vigilante'
enjoys wide public support for an unrelenting
crusade against corruption in the NDC government.

He was former deputy Attorney-General and Justice
minister under the Rawlings-led NDC government and
later picked as running mate to NDC presidential
candidate John Evants Atta Mills in the 2000
general elections.

He was later appointed Attorney-General and
Justice minister after Evans Atta Mills won the
2008 general elections. But after falling out with
the NDC government over a judgement debt scandal,
Martin Amidu has devoted himself to fighting
corruption in his party's government.

For more than two years, Martin Amidu pursued an
NDC financier Alfred Woyome who was found to have
been illegally paid GHC51.2 million as judgment
debt.
He has single-handedly won court judgments in
cases which the government has refrained from
pursing.

Belinda is impressed by what she says is Amidu’s
consistency in pursuing what he believes is
corruption and collusion among top government
officials to loot the public purse.

“I believe that if he is given that position
free of interference he will do the job. People
fear him” she said on the Super Morning Show
Tuesday.
Some sections of the social media public have also
called for the appointment of Martim Amidu for the
post.

Amidu publicly campaigned against his own party
and has also congratulated Akufo-Addo on his
stunning victory noting that Ghanaians made a wise
choice.

“The track record of President-elect Nana Ado
Dankwa Akufo-Addo, and his unassailable commitment
to democratic processes since Constitutional
governance in Ghana in 1993 gives hope that under
his leadership Ghana will once more instill the
values of good, and accountable governance", Amidu
has said.

The NPP has vowed to de-alienate the
Attorney-General’s office from the Ministry of
Justice. Nana Akufo-Addo believes the A-G needs to
be independence of political interference, the
bane of weak-willed attempts at addressing
corruption.

The A-G’s office is expected to be re-branded as
the office of the special prosecutor to emphasize
its independence.

Source - Joyfm

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