Former Minister of Justice and Attorney General, Mr. Martin A.B. As to what I’ll do, I reserve that for myself but as I said, whatever happens to me, I lay my life for the Republic of Ghana and the president has a constitutional duty to protect me. Deux de ces enfants sont atteints de graves maladies mentales, si l'on retient l'hypothèse de l'écrivaine et artiste américaine Michele Zackheim (en) concernant Lieserl. See Photos. That is why it is hard to really know who Martin Amidu wife is. His posts included one time being Minster of Interior, Attorney General and Minister of Justice Presidential Advisor on Legal Affairs, Rural Development and Deputy Secretary of State for Upper East Region, Science and Technology, Deputy Secretary of State for Local Government and Deputy Secretary of State for Industry. See Photos. Reports had been suggesting that Martin Amidu had been looking into the recent activities of Freddy Bay, the Board Chairman of the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC). Martin Alamisi Burnes Kaiser Amidu is a household name in Ghana. He attended the Antioch University in Ohio. He argued that Mr Amidu had passed the age limit of employment according to the laws of the country and as such his appointment should be declared null and void by the court. Martin A. How did he start? It has also become very clear why corruption is not a theme in the President’s campaign messages for the 2020 elections considering that in 2016 he rode on the back of baseless corruption allegations against the NDC government of John Mahama to win power. Category: general news. It is for this reason that he was appointed special prosecutor despite the fact that he is from the opposition party. However, he withdrew the suit in 2017 following an assurance from the new government that they will ensure the money is recovered. Currently, Mr Martin Amidu is the Special Prosecutor of Ghana. He is also the person who opened the floodgates that would see Woyome be implicated in the most severe financial scandal ever witnessed in Ghana. He was a fan of reading but what he fancied more were the political science books. He went on to finish his primary education and his secondary education. He went on to work in private practice as a legal practitioner working in the Supreme Court of Ghana as a barrister and solicitor. You would think that the legal mind, like his counterparts in the legal profession, would have been schooled in the best schools in the country. Martin Amidu is a renowned author. The question on the lips of many Ghanaians is whether President Akufo Addo actually created the office of special prosecutor to fight corruption as he claimed or to cover up corruption as Martin Amidu has alleged? or. Earlier on as a child, he would be very adamant to go to school and his mother would always have a hard time getting him to wake up in the morning. On 13th of February 2018 Martin Amidu became Ghanas first Special Prosecutor. They argue that since he is the Board Chairman of the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC), he is a public officer and therefore the Criminal Offences act can be used to prosecute him. Austine Amedu. He also suggested that Mr Bay was ready to be investigated and questioned over the purchases insisting on the fact that Mr Bay has nothing to hide. Writing in his resignation letter which comes barely a month after he submitted an explosive corruption report on AGYAPA royalties Limited, Mr. Amidu said the President’s reaction to his report indicting some NPP government officials including his finance minister and cousin Ken Ofori Atta shows the President ‘laboured under the mistaken belief’ that the special prosecutor was his poodle. However, this did not deter the young man. Resigned Special Prosecutor, Martin Amidu has said the President of Ghana Nana Akufo Addo mistook him for someone he could use to cover up corruption in his NPP government by willingly obeying his orders, even as an independent prosecutor. From a child who hated school early on in his childhood life, Martin Amidu would grow to become one of the leading legal minds in the country that he would even become the Attorney General of Ghana. The total cost of purchasing the buses is reported to be in 11.4 million dollars. He would also use the knowledge he gained in the United States to work as a professional consultant in matters of conflict resolution. 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