The Presidency has after indicating notice of Mr Martin Amidu’s resignation responded to the issues raised in his resignation letter. Joyceline Natally Cudjoe Martin Amidu’s response to the President [full text] by Ghana Waves November 27, 2020 November 27, 2020 0 91. Get the best viral stories straight into your inbox before everyone else! Nobody needs any training to know, let alone the President of Nkrumah’s Ghana, that Manuel Antonio Noriega did not have a right to a hearing or a right of comment on the intelligence analysis and assessments on Panama by the United States of America and other allied countries. President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has responded to allegations raised by former Special Prosecutor, Martin Amidu in his resignation letter. The late former President Emeritus and his co-mediator knew that the President was acting on the conclusions and observations and not the full report. Effect of the Agyapa Report, In spite of the fact that I had submitted the full sixty-four (64) page report to the President under a covering letter in the afternoon of 2nd November 2020 your letter creates the embarrassing impression that neither the President who directed and instructed you to write the letter under reference to me nor you as his Secretary have read the full sixty-four (64) page Agyapa Royalties Transactions report to be able to understand that it contains very serious suspected corruption and corruption-related offences for which I intended to open full investigations. If the President and you had found the time to read the full Agyapa Royalties Transaction anti-corruption assessment report delivered to him under a covering letter on 2nd November 2020 you would not on 17th November 2020 have relied on mere conclusions and observations like lazy and inexperienced lawyers relying on facts and holding in a published law report to respond to my letter of resignation dated 16th November 2020. The interfering demands made by the President on the performance of my functions as the Special Prosecutor is the only explanation for me telling the President immediately in his office that I did not intend to continue as the Special Prosecutor. That was when it was divinely revealed to me that the President whom I trusted so much for integrity only looked like the innocent flower of anti-corruption but he was really the mother corruption serpent under the innocent looking flower. Introductory Preliminary Important Matters on the Agyapa Royalties Limited Transactions Report: Political Fabrications and Falsehoods . Switch to the dark mode that's kinder on your eyes at night time. We got up from our beds today to welcome another but the longest epistle from Martin Amidu responding to the President rejoinder to his earliest write up upon his resignation. Introductory Preliminary Important Matters on the Agyapa Royalties Limited Transactions Report: Political Fabrications and Falsehoods. 28. I cannot, therefore, accept the passing of the buck to me again for your inability since April 2019 to have expedited the remedial works for the completion of the GETFund building into suitable office accommodation. 23. The foregoing fundamental lies and falsified propaganda demonstrate two things. Akuapem Dehye Further details of the conversation between us in the President’s Office are narrated in other paragraphs below. Every crime is either crime or non is crime. The Chief of Staff came with a friend of mine to my Office after I had arrested Kelvin Ofori-Atta and granted him bail to apologize for putting up the wall without compliance with the Public Procurement Act and without informing the Office. The Office of the Special Prosecutor was never copied or instructed to pay the compensation of the Special Prosecutor and the Deputy Special Prosecutor and had no authority to do so in terms of the appointment letters under your signature. Mr Martin Amidu, immediate past Special Prosecutor has in an interview with Umaru Sanda of citi fm, responded to verbal attacks on him by Assin Central Member of Parliament, Kennedy Agyapong. Introductory Preliminary Important Matters on the Agyapa Royalties Limited Transactions Report: Political Fabrications and Falsehoods. Bawku is where I grew up and the people of Bawku know the President’s corrupt partisan injustice that she is at post even today while the other public officers are on interdiction. Joyceline Natally Cudjoe March 6, 2021, 8:57 am, by February 8, 2021, 10:46 am, by I told them that from the President’s reaction to the letter of 16th October 2020 containing only the conclusions and observations in the report I thanked God, encompassed by the Holy Trinity, and the Holy Mary, that I had not conveyed the full report to the President even though I had told the Minister of Finance in my residence on 22nd October, 2020 that the only condition upon which I would release the full report was that it was under a covering letter to the affected parties including the minority in Parliament. When this same President shamefully, with tongue in check, realized that the anti-corruption assessment report on his foreign tax haven incorporated Agyapa Royalties Limited Transactions was infested with suspected corruption activity he turned round to take Ghanaians for fools of short memory by referring the Agyapa Royalties anti-corruption infested transaction to his partisan Attorney-General to review the work of the independent Office of the Special Prosecutor so that his appointees are given political protection by the Attorney-General for the suspected commission of corruption and corruption-related offences. 19. I underscored to the mediators the fact that rescinding my decision to resign will all depend on how the President handled the conclusions and observations of the Agyapa Royalties Transactions report. It would come as no surprise to me when all the accused persons in the two pending corruption cases in the High Court since March 20191 left behind are acquitted and discharged after my resignation. My press release on the morning of 2nd November 2020 and the immediate release of the Special Prosecutor’s report on the tax haven incorporated Agyapa Royalties Transactions which followed immediately upon my meeting with the President on the evening of 1st November 2020 was a response to the President’s request to me to shelve the Special Prosecutor’s report to enable him issue a press statement to the public to handle the situation. The Agyapa Royalties Transaction is suspected to have been intended to rob the Chiefs and people of Ghana of their patrimony as the beneficiaries of the gold extractive resources of our dear country in perpetuity for the benefit of a very few members of the President’s Government as distinct from the New Patriotic Party. The handing over notes I gave to the Deputy Special Prosecutor who under section 17(3) of Act 959 acts as the Special Prosecutor in the case of a vacancy or resignation of the Special Prosecutor explains all the foregoing and the Deputy Special Prosecutor knows the difficulties the Office has gone through operationalizing. It was after I had pointed where the blame for the non-operationalization of the Office lay that I made the statement of commendation about the President which the President directed and instructed you to quote out of context in a naive belief that I am a poodle or fool who cannot change his mind two months thereafter. The President of Ghana and I practiced law at the Bar and he knows how meticulously and labouriously I study the case for both sides in depth before advocating my cause. Ghana First. 27. The President’s directives and instruction to you in your paragraph 31 are false. I read with utmost surprise in the media on the night of 17th November 2020 your letter with reference number OPS 126/20/2362 dated 17th November 2020 on the above subject matter which was addressed to me personally in my capacity as a citizen of Ghana after I had written to H. E. the President in my official capacity then as the Special Prosecutor to resign my position in accordance with the law. The President, Nana Akufo-Addo has responded to allegations levelled against him and his government by former Special Prosecutor, Martin Amidu in the latter’s resignation letter. It does our country Ghana no credit when the Government continues repeating this matter of giving the affected appointees a hearing after an analysis and assessment based on an exhaustive and painstaking consideration of the affected appointees own letters and documentary submissions because it portrays ignorance of the uses to which these analyses and assessment reports are put. The Office under my care engaged only two persons on contract for one year each. As a result of the woefully inadequate transitional office you accommodated me in when I was appointed the first Special Prosecutor to the OSP to date, there is no Office answering to the intentions of the President and Parliament as required under Act 959.1 have been putting up appearances in the hope that the President is not embarrassed by the situation while we together quickly operationalize the Office. He also described the president’s response to his letter of resignation as one that is full of lies. I refer to your letter dated 16 November, 2020 pursuant to which you resigned your position as the first Special Prosecutor appointed in accordance with Section 13(3) of the Office of the Special Prosecutor Act, 2017 (Act 959) (hereinafter, the “Letter”). An interim Secretary and an acting Director of Operations. Martin Amidu on Monday, November 16, 2020, resigned from his position as the Special Prosecutor.. Mr. Amidu in his resignation letter said while he believed that he was executing his mandate independently, the reactions he has received concerning the work make him convinced that he was not expected to exercise his independence as a Special Prosecutor and that makes his work … The Office with the approval of the Board placed a blind advertisement and shortlisted more than 1500 applicants through various stages of security vetting who are waiting to be interviewed for recruitment. March 8, 2021, 2:25 am, by March 6, 2021, 8:35 pm, by It is important to state that I never dealt directly with the Chief of Staff over what she calls the acquisition of GNTC building and its adjoining Parliamentary building or any other building. The letters and documentary evidence used in the analysis of the risk of the prevention of corruption and anti-corruption assessment were provided by the Parliament, the Ministry of Finance, the Public Procurement Authority, the Registrar-General’s Department and other agencies. I am not a poodle and, therefore, changed my mind subsequently as stated in my official resignation letter dated 16th November 2020, period! The Hon. The Holy Spirit emboldened me to tell the President immediately in the face that I will not be the Special Prosecutor and that I was giving him notice of that fact. The President and you may thereafter agree with the content of the anticorruption assessment in the full report after painstakingly reading it. In any case because every liar inadvertently leaves a signature of the lying “crime” the Chief of Staff included my letter with reference number OSP/SCR/20/11/20 dated 14th September 2020 in the officially leaked letters on the directives and instruction of the President making the rounds in the media to assassinate my character. Amidu President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has responded to Martin Amidu's allegation of interference in his work as the Special Prosecutor following … My personal efforts to prompt you to assist the Office operationalize with accommodation capable of being used by the statutory divisions are well documented in correspondence with your Office. The truth is that immediately after receiving my thirteen-page (13) letter of 16th October 2020 the President engaged the services of a mediator he felt I would listen to. 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They educated me that the Office was not akin to a Ministry where the Chief Director (Head of the Administration) was the spending officer. I have never been told or provided with how much was spent from the public purse in renting, shoddily renovating, furnishing, and equipping the transitional premises used as the Office by the Chief of Staff. ‘In my letter with reference number OSP/SCR/24/26/19 dated 16th September 2019 to you I stated that: “This Office is still occupying the three bed room house with boys’ quarters housing three senior staff and nine junior staff presently making up this Office. President Akufo-Addo’s response to Martin Amidu’s resignation letter [Full text] The President, Nana Akufo-Addo has responded to allegations levelled against him and his government by former Special Prosecutor, Martin Amidu in the latter’s resignation letter. Share the Story. & Acct-Gen Accounts, Castle, Osu, and (iv) the Chief Internal Auditor, Castle, Osu. The impression given by you that there was a deliberate intention to ensure your office did not function is more startling.” The President’s directives that creates the impression that I resigned because of non-payment of salaries is plainly false upon any reading of my resignation letter. Full Text: Martin Amidu’s response to the presidency on his letter of resignation. The media accused me as the Special Prosecutor, for unlawfully erecting the walls without permit but I kept quiet to avoid embarrassing the Chief of Staff. Joyceline Natally Cudjoe Former Special Prosecutor, Martin Amidu has still maintained his stand on exposing the rot in the Akufo Addo government. That was where the delay in operationalizing the office came from and I underscored it in my letter of 3rd August 2020 in the following words and paragraphs: Martin Amidu on Monday tendered in his resignation as Special Prosecutor, a position he had held since 2018. The space in between the two buildings was to be used for the construction of prefabricated office structures to enable it to accommodate the full complement of 249 independently recruited officers. If Martin Amidu does not heed the advice of a delegation of eminent people who might be sent to him to call for a cease fire, we are likely to get a response from him. https://reportghana.com/martin-amidu-predicts-who-wins-2020-elections Full Text: President Akufo Addo’s Response To Martin Amidu. According to him, although Mr. Amidu had every right to defend himself, his choice of words was uncalled for and gives the impression that he was after a fight with the Presidency. The crux of the reason further expatiated in paragraphs 7, 8, 9 and 10 of my resignation letter assigns the reaction of the President to the analysis of the risk of corruption and anticorruption assessment report on the Agyapa Royalties Limited Transaction Documents as what convinced me to resign as follows: In any case, immediately I left the President’s office on 1st November 20201 sent out a written summary of what transpired at the meeting with the President to the mediators or go-betweens as a contemporaneous record of my meeting with the President. I became more convinced beyond any further reasonable doubt after my second meeting with the President in his Office in the evening of Sunday 1st November 2020 when the President attempted to persuade me to shelve the Agyapa Royalties Limited Transaction anti-corruption assessment report to allow him deal with the matter through a statement to the public, that God (represented by the Holy Trinity in my Catholic faith) was in his own divine way revealing to me for the first time that the President of Ghana only looked like the innocent flower of the fight against corruption but was indeed the mother serpent of corruption under the innocent looking flower of anti-corruption. The meetings referred to in your paragraphs 31 and 32 were attended by officers from my office and not by me in person. 0. This is clearly an act presented as that of an innocent looking flower which is also the serpent under it. 2374 based solely on letters and documents submitted by the affected parties and did not require giving them a right to an oral hearing. I resigned my position as the Special Prosecutor because of the traumatic experience I suffered from the reaction of the President who breached his Presidential oath by unlawfully obstructing me from taking any further steps on the Agyapa Royalties Transactions from 20th October 2020 to 1st November 2020. When I gave the President notice that I was not going to continue as the Special Prosecutor because of his interference in my then functions, the President reported my intentions to the late President Emeritus Rawlings as the mediator whom I met on the 27th, 28th and 29th October 2020 with a co-mediator in attendance. The sheer physical constraints to the operationalization of this Office has been the three-bedroom house from which this Office has operated. by Secondly, while the Chief of Staff clearly states that the President had accepted my resignation your letter written on the directive of the President thereafter states that “he has taken note of your resignation.” Accepting a resignation and noting a resignation are synonyms only in the unscrupulous art of spinning and public deception inconsistent with the Presidential constitutional oath of our dear Republic. I had to point out to your Chief Director, and your Deputy at a meeting on 1st April 2019 in my office that the building was so defective as not to be fit for human occupation resulting in the joint inventory and inspection of the building on the 3rd and 4th April 2019 after which the keys were returned to “GETFund to continue to hold the building in trust for the Office of the President….”. The Office did not get any serious allocation of funds from its 2019 budgetary appropriation until by May 2019 when releases begun. Switch to the light mode that's kinder on your eyes at day time. Reading the president’s response, however, has given me a new perspective on the matter. I have read and re-read the resignation letter and there is no paragraph in it in which I complained about lack of budgetary allocation as the reason for my resignation from my then position as the Special Prosecutor. 21. I could not convey the events of 23rd October 2020 in-person to the late former President Emeritus Jerry John Rawlings because the next day, 24th October 2020 was the day set for the burial of his dear mother which event was so sacred to be spoilt by any action on my part pursuant to my notice to the President. What makes Amidu look very terrible in the president’s response is the detailed explanation of how Martin Amidu did not recruit even though he was given the clearance to do so. Dr. Henry K. Prempeh knows that I know he is a friend to the President, and I have told him so in two meetings that the CDD held with me in my former office to use that influence to assist the Office. Drake sides with The Weeknd, says Grammys ‘may no longer matter’ Ghana Waves. Read Akufo-Addo's full response to Martin Amidu's allegations of interference Evans Effah. You will not, therefore, be serving the interest of the President by passing any buck to me again to take over an empty building in order to burden me and further frustrate me while enabling you to triumphantly claim to have fulfilled your delegated obligation in finding the OSP suitable office accommodation with the various divisions to work from. Mr. Amidu is trying his very best to impute sins to the presidency saying that the president is “… really the mother corruption serpent under the innocent-looking flower”. My letter with reference number OSP/SCR/24/33/20 dated 3rd August 2020 to the Chief of Staff adequately explains the allegations contained in paragraphs 25,26, 27 and 28 of your letter of frivolous falsehoods. I never hunted for this job, I have been frustrated and painfully hurt in this job, I have not asked for or been paid any salary since my appointment: the appointment letter allegedly issued only on 30th January 2020, was delivered on 5th February 2020, and accepted on 17th February 2020 contrary to perceptions by the public. Mr President, the politically induced witch-hunting audit you ordered into the Office of the Special Prosecutor on Monday 23rd November 2020 after you had accepted my resignation from the date I assumed Office in 2018 to the date of your acceptance of my resignation simply because of my professional work on the suspected corruption infested Agyapa Royalties Limited Transaction anti-corruption assessment report will never intimidate me. Lies can never triumph over truth. I wrote the letter of 3rd August 2020 to the Chief of Staff for the reason that I thought she was trying to pass the buck to me by handing over the keys to an empty ten (10) storey building to me four (4) months to the 2020 election to enable her claim that the Government had provided the Office with a workable office accommodation. You have quoted it but I wish to quote it again so that the public will appreciate the total context and the time difference of when it was made and my resignation based solely on the President’s demand for me to shelve the Agyepa Royalties Limited Transactions anti-corruption assessment report: Joyceline Natally Cudjoe ‘I have remained in this Office this long out of personal respect for the President’s shared commitment with me to fight corruption. I have no doubt that the Minister of Finance did put in a word on behalf of the Office which influenced the President’s decision to direct the acquisition of that building for the Office. Martin Amidu Nov 22, 2020; NDC Sammy Gyamfi Exposes Hon. In view of the fact that H. E. the President directed you to write to me personally after my resignation from office and his acceptance of same instead of responding in a statement to the people of Ghana, I am exercising my rights as a citizen of Ghana under the 1992 Constitution to respond to your letter written on the directions and instructions of the President to me personally and to defend the Constitution and the people of Ghana’s commitment to “Freedom, Justice, Probity, and Accountability”. I shudder to think that you, as the Secretary to the President of the Republic of Ghana, will be conveying the directives of the President to the public and the international community that the President of Ghana does not know that in exercising the President’s functions as the Chairman of the National Security Council and Commander-in-Chief every head of a security and intelligence agency has an obligation to brief him on matters that may have national security consequences on the nation.