Former Special Prosecutor, Martin Amidu has in a latest response to a letter written to him by the Secretary to the President, Nana Asante Bediatuo, described the Agyapa Royalties Limited Transaction as the “the mother of all suspected corruption and corruption-related offences” to have been discovered.
According to Martin Amidu, the risk assessment report on the Agyapa Royalties Transaction is the first ever analysis of the risk of prevention of corruption and anti-corruption assessment since Ghana attained its independence in 1957, which has discovered that the Agyapa Royalties Limited Transaction is fraught with illegalities.
“I have underscored the deliberate distortions and manipulation of facts contained in the opening paragraphs of your letter written to me on the directives and instructions of the President to demonstrate that your letter to me from its inception was intended to be the personification of falsehoods to the good people of Ghana and to divert public attention from a very important and serious anti-corruption assessment in respect of the Agyapa Royalties Limited Transaction Documents report which I conducted professionally as the first Special Prosecutor of Ghana. The Agyapa Royalties Limited Transaction contains the mother of all suspected corruption and corruption-related offences to be discovered in the first analysis of the risk of the prevention of corruption and anti-corruption assessment since Ghana attained its independence in 1957,” he stated.
He continued: “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. This embarrassingly exhibits our dear nation, Ghana, as being run on autopilot to the domestic and international community,” part of the 27 page response read.
Mr. Martin Amidu resigned as Special Prosecutor after he accused President Akufo Addo of interfering in his duties.
The former Special Prosecutor has been fighting off claims by government that he erred in the discharge of his duties which led to his resignation.
