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The Special Prosecutor position has become vacant following the resignation of Martin Amidu on Monday, November 16. This means that the President must, in accordance with the Office of Special Prosecutor Act 2017, Act 959, nominate a new person to be vetted by Parliament for the post. Below is a list of five persons (in no particular order) likely to ...

AviationGhana sources have confirmed that two major international airlines are planning to start a direct service between their hubs and the Ashanti regional capital Kumasi when the Kumasi International Airport is completed. The two airlines believe that the region has the numbers to make any such future operation successful. “We have been looking at the numbers and we think that ...

Assin Central lawmaker Kennedy Agyapong has said he warned the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) against the appointment ofMartin Amidu as the Special Prosecutor but the party did not listen to him. According to him, Mr Amidu was the wrong choice for that position. “Nobody should be scared or worried about Martin Amidu’s resignation if he has resigned so be ...

A US-based Ghanaian KPMG Professor in Accounting and Constitutional lawyer, Kwaku Asare has advised President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to choose a career prosecutor to replace Mr Martin A.B.K Amidu who exited office as Special Prosecutor. Mr Amidu on Monday, November 16, 2020, announced his resignation as the Special Prosecutor citing a number of reasons for his resignation. “The events ...

The ruling New Patriotic Patriotic(NPP) has jumped to the defence of the President following his indictment by the Special Prosecutor in the corruption fight. A Press Statement issued by the Communications Director of the NPP, Yaw Buaben Asamoa said the outrageous claims made by the Special Prosecutor against the President is regrettable. He insisted that there is no evidence to ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo says claims by the former Special Prosecutor (SP) Martin Amidu that his office was ill-equipped and could not help in the fight of corruption, are inaccurate. Records available, the President said, indicate that he was true to his word that he will give the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP), the support to discharge its ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on Thursday, November 17, responded to allegations levelled against him and his Administration by Martin Amidu, the Special Prosecutor in his resignation letter. In a nine-page response, the president addressed some critical claims Martin Amidu made such as interference in the work of the Special Prosecutor; the Agyapa mineral royalties scandal; and the claims that ...

Documents sighted by The Finder indicate that the government has successfully secured a nine-floor Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETFund) building at Ridge to house the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP). A memo from the Chief Director at Jubilee House addressed to the Chief of Staff, dated August 18, 2020, detailed efforts the government has made to provide decent accommodation ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has taken exception to allegations by the Special Prosecutor, Martin Alamisi Amidu, in his resignation letter, that he and his deputy, Jane Cynthia Naa Korshie Lamptey, have not been paid since taking office. “Your office received more than a sufficient budgetary allocation to assist it in its anti-corruption fight,” a letter from the Office of ...

Special Prosecutor Martin Amidu did not inform the board of his resignation, Board Chairperson Mrs. Linda Ofori-Kwafo of the not for profit Ghana Integrity Initiative (GII) has said. According to Mrs. Ofori-Kwafo, the board got to know of Mr. Amidu’s resignation through the media. She stated, therefore, that the board will meet to discuss the plethora of concerns Mr. Amidu ...