Martin Amidu resigns from office as Special Prosecutor
The Special Prosecutor, Martin Amidu has left his position.
In a letter routed to President Nana Akufo-Addo, Martin Amidu said his choice is to "empower Your Excellency to find a way to choose a substitution to that position as legally necessary."
He proposed that President Akufo-Addo has not had the option to guarantee his autonomy and opportunity of activity.
“The one condition upon which I accepted to be nominated as the Special Prosecutor when you invited me to your Office on 10th January 2018 was your firm promise to me that you will respect and ensure same by your Government for my independence and freedom of action as the Special Prosecutor,” he stated.
Refering to a case of one of the triggers for his renunciation and the choice to disclose it, the previous Attorney General said he has had a "horrible experience" between twentieth October 2020 and second November 2020 in the wake of delivering his debasement hazard appraisal on Agyapa Royalties Limited Transactions.
He said while he accepted that he was executing his order freely, the responses he has gotten concerning the work makes him persuaded that he was not expected to practice his autonomy as a Special Prosecutor and that makes his work illogical.
“In undertaking the analysis of the risk of prevention of corruption and anti-corruption assessment I sincerely believed that I was executing an independent mandate under the Office of the Special Prosecutor, Act, 2017 (Act 959) and the Office of the Special Prosecutor (Operations) Regulations, 2018 (L. I. 2374).”
“The reaction I received for daring to produce the Agyapa Royalties Limited Transactions anti-corruption report convinces me beyond any reasonable doubt that I was not intended to exercise any independence as the Special Prosecutor in the prevention, investigation, prosecution, and recovery of assets of corruption. My position as the Special Prosecutor has consequently become clearly untenable,” Martin Amidu’s statement said.
Martin Amidu in the assertion uncovered that despite the fact that his arrangement was declared in 2018, he just got his arrangement letter on fifth February 2020.
He said there has likewise not been any push to give him the remittances and advantages due him per his arrangement letter.
Martin Amidu said while he was not very made a big deal about the way that he had not been given any payments, the “Deputy Special Prosecutor has also not been paid any emoluments since her appointment, and there is the need to redress that situation for her now that I am out of the way.”
“My appointment letter was received on 5th February 2020 (almost two (2)-years after my appointment). The copy addressees made no efforts to honour any of the conditions of appointment in terms of emoluments and benefits of the appointment ever since my warrant of appointment was issued on 23rd February 2018 to the date of my letter of resignation.”
“I have been an anti-corruption crusader all my life and not an anti-corruption entrepreneur. This explains why I have never put the emoluments and benefits of the Office as central to my commitment and my passion for the establishment of an independent, effective, efficient and impartial anti-corruption Office of the Special Prosecutor before the end of the first term of Mr. President. This has not been possible for several reasons,” his statement said.
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