The Office of the Special Prosecutor has said lawyers who downplayed the issuance of Red Notices by Interpol for the arrest of some four persons in connection with an Airbus corruption matter and attacking the person of Martin Amidu are inexperienced and unethical.
Samuel Adam Fosters also known as Samuel Adam Mahama is wanted for his role in a bribe taking scandal that has hit the plane manufacturing company Airbus.
He is reportedly being sought for allegedly accepting bribe to influence a top elected public officer in Ghana in the purchase of some Aircrafts.
According to a statement issued by the Office of the Special Prosecutor, comments made by some lawyers in Ghana suggesting the Red Notices issued were fake have exhibited bad legal ethics and exuded sufficient inexperience.
Some lawyers and members of the opposition National Democratic Congress including the party’s National Communications Officer Sammy Gyamfi and Director of Legal Affairs Abraham Amaliba described the notices as a hoax and calculated at discrediting the National Democratic Congress flagbearer John Dramani Mahama.
“The SP also learnt later and read online that a bunch of young, inexperienced and unethical lawyers were referring to the Red Notices as fake while at the same time heaping insults and attributing unwarranted motives to the person and character of the SP for doing his work as the Special Prosecutor to fight provable corruption, “a statement seen by dreamzfmonline.com said.
The anti-graft office further noted that the decision by the Ghana Police Service to issue a statement on behalf of the office on the Interpol Red Notices was unusual and needless.
It added that “The SP is well known in this country and amongst the community of ethical lawyers and the senior judiciary as a person who had practiced the law ethically for upwards of forty years. Some of the unethical lawyers who were assaulting the person and character of the SP on the airwaves are lawyers who are in their twenties and early thirties; they have not even yet cut their teeth at the Ghana Bar.”
The office assured that Mr. Martin Amidu will not be drawn into the affray of turning law into politics and does not speak on matter he is investigating.
