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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 ...

In his resignation letter to President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, former Special Prosecutor Martin Amidu, directly told the Commander-in-Chief of the Ghana Armed Forces that he could not direct him about as far as his handling of the corruption and anti-corruption assessment report of the controversial Agyapa Royalties deal was concerned, and refused to “bargain” with the President, who insisted ...

The Secretary-General of the African Development Bank Group, Professor Vincent Nmehielle has described as scary the $150 dollars being charged for COVID-19 testing at the Kotoka International Airport. Prof. Nmehielle is calling on the government to review the amount and reduce it adding that the charge is a disincentive for the business community and tourists who are interested in traveling ...

The arrest of four persons conducting research for the oppositionNational Democratic Congress, NDC, in the Upper Manya Krobo Constituency of the Eastern Region has heightened political tension in the area. The four were arrested Saturday, November 14, 2020, by armed Police officers led by the District Police Commander John Yeboah while in a community administering questionnaires. They were, however, granted ...