Honorary Vice President of IMANI Africa, Kofi Bentil has criticized former Special Prosecutor, Martin Amidu over his latest statement in which he alleged that he has been verbally abused by a person identified only as Nana B.
Mr. Martin Amidu, after the release of his 27-page response to the presidency, released another statement on November 28, 2020 addressing derogatory remarks made against his person on the grounds of his ethnicity by a certain Nana B whose identity, he claimed, was revealed through an Android Application known as True Caller.
But in a post on social media reacting to the development, Mr. Kofi Bentil criticized Mr. Amidu for resorting to such an application in his investigation of the identity of the person allegedly abusing him stating that “If your investigations include truecaller identification, you’re not serious.”
He believes Mr. Amidu, per his experience and exposure, should have used more reliable and rigorous methods of investigating the identity of the alleged perpetrator rather resorting to a dubious application.
The vice president of IMANI Africa also chastised the former Special Prosecutor over what he described as childish display of anger, obnoxious insinuation and innuendos stating that such behaviors are unfit of a person of his caliber who until recently was head of a sensitive public Office.
“Puerile tantrums, vituperation, strident insinuations, and innuendos are unbecoming of one leading one of the best funded and most sensitive public institutions,” he stated.
He added that “we have a President to elect. We need focus. Our future depends on that. Stop wasting our ears!”
Mr. Amidu in the statement, which discloses corresponding text messages between him and the person supposedly identified as Nana B, said he had refused to respond to calls from the said Nana who later sent him text messages making derogatory tribal remarks against him.
Nana B, according to the statement, claimed Mr. Amidu’s corruption risk assessment report of the Agyapa Mineral Royalties Agreement is an attempt to dent the image of the Akufo-Addo’s administration hence, his tribal insults including “Otani Gyimifuo” which means foolish northerner against the former Special Prosecutor.
Expressing his outrage over the denigrating comments, Mr. Amidu who wondered why he would be insulted on the basis of ethnicity following the execution of his constitutional mandate as the Special Prosecutor said such ethnocentric remarks breaches the constitution of Ghana.
While chronicling the contribution of people from the northern decent to the country’s democratic credentials, Mr. Amidu said the derogatory remarks against him only reveal the long-held perception by section of the country’s populace, particularly those from the southern part, that people from the northern part of Ghana are inferior citizens.
“The internalized perception by some Ghanaians that people from the former NT who are full-blooded Ghanaians since 1957 are inferior citizens have been exposed by the sender of this SMS and his puppet masters,” he said in the statement.
