Special Prosecutor Martin Amidu has revealed that the Attorney General Gloria Akuffo wanted to make him what he describes as a lame-duck prosecutor.
Martin Amidu speaking to David Ampofo on the Time With David talk show disclosed the troubles he has to go through to get the Attorney General to pass the legislation that will aid him to do his work.
"There was a three-storey building as a place I was supposed to begin working from, at the time the LIs has not been made and i had to ensure that LIs were made cause I had a lot of confrontations with the Attorney General about the way the wanted to set up the office they wanted to set up the office as a lame-duck which a resisted and there are exchanges of letters which proved, eventually I got the LIs which I thought could let us work."
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Martin Amidu also in one of his epistle accused heads of institutions for making his work as the Special Prosecutor difficult.
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Mr Amidu said some of these heads of institutions refuse to comply with laws designed to ensure good governance and to protect the national purse.
Mr Amidu after being appointed SP was criticised for the snail pace of his work but he kick-started his fight against corruption as he is currently battling with Member of Parliament for Bawku Central, Mahama Ayariga.
"The biggest challenge facing the Office of the Special Prosecutor as an anti-corruption investigatory and prosecutorial body in spite of all the powers conferred upon it is not the President who promised the people of Ghana to establish the Office but the heads of institutions who simply refuse to comply with laws designed to ensure good governance and to protect the national purse by fighting corruption.
Heads of institutions wantonly disregard statutory requests made by the Office for information and production of documents to assist in the investigation of corruption and corruption-related offences, in spite of the fact that the President has on a number of occasions admonished them on such misconduct.
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There have also been cases where some heads of institutions have made it their habit to interfere with and undermine the independence of this Office by deliberately running concurrent investigations falling within the jurisdiction of this Office with on-going investigations in this Office for the sole purpose of aborting investigations into corruption and corruption-related offences."