SP vetting: Appointments Committee unanimously approve Martin Amidu

The Appointments Committee of Parliament has unanimously approved Special Prosecutor nominee Martin Amidu after nine hours of vetting him in Parliament on Tuesday, February 13, 2018.

 First Deputy Majority Whip in Parliament and also a member of the Appointments Committee Matthew Nyindam said the committee after the hearing at 8 pm withing ten minutes decided to unanimously approve Martin Amidu as the first Special Prosecutor for Ghana.

In a radio interview, he said the question was posed that if anybody had any objections to his approval but they all decided to approve him because listening to his response at the hearing no one will have anything against him. 

He further stated that public officials who have plans of engaging in corrupt activities should rescind their decision because the law will take it due course.

The report of the committee will be expected to be presented to the house for consideration this week.

I was forced to apologize to Mills-Martin Amidu

Special Prosecutor nominee Martin Amidu says his apology letter to the late President Professor Atta Mills over misconduct was forced out of him.

According to Martin Amidu, after he has identified what he described as an attempt to conceal “gargantuan” corruption within Mills administration, he was “reprehensively” forced to apologize by late Chairman of the Council of State Prof Kofi Awoonor and fellow elder of the NDC Captain Tsikata (rtd).

Reacting to questions from MP for Tamale North Alhassan Suhuyini, and member of the Appointment Committee at his vetting in Parliament, Martin Amidu said:

“They [Awoonor and Tsikata (rtd)] asked me to write this letter and I’ve said it, Captain Tsikata is alive, and when Alhaji Mahama Iddrisu called me and said they wanted this letter, I told him they could sack me, but when the two of them asked me to write this letter, the first letter didn’t have Captain Tsikata’s name, my secretary, Perpetual Alatsane, who is still working, sent it to Kofi Awoonor’s office, then he added the Tsikata and when he brought it, the girl typed it and added the name.”

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