Special Prosecutor, Martin Amidu, has taken serious exception to a petition presented to his office, the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) by Mr Nii Tettey Tetteh, calling on his office to investigate the controversial Agyapa Royalties deal, asserting that his petition is opportunistic, populist and speculative and therefore deserves no attention from his office.
Nii Tettey Tetteh, the Executive Director of STRANEK, had forwarded a petition to the office headed by Mr Amidu, requesting that the office investigate the controversial Agyapa Royalties deal.
But his request seemed to have irked Mr Amidu gravely. So he responded swiftly and frontally describing his petition as opportunistic, populist, speculative and an attempt to take credit for work already being executed by his office.
Mr Amidu went to great lengths to explain that the OSP was already investigating the Agyapa Royalties deal and the investigations are a matter of public record that the petitioner ought to have been aware of before bugging him with his petition.
“Your letter under reference therefore, appears to this Office as an opportunistic and populist enterprise on your part to take credit for processes already independently commenced by this Office,” he wrote in his reply.
Mr Amidu then argued that the petitioner provided no facts to support his claim and raised only speculations, which speculations do not merit expending public money on.
“In any case, your latter containing mere speculations without more, does not present any reasonable basis for this Office to commit further resources to your request from the public purse,” he lashed out.
Meanwhile Mr Amidu’s reply has been met with criticism by many Ghanaians, especially on social media. Many find the tone harsh and the contents unbecoming of a public office holder the calibre of the Special Prosecutor.
Professor Stephen Kwaku Asare( Kwaku Azar) has described the reply as a ploy to shame the petitioner, which has the potential of discouraging other citizens from petitioning the OSP.
