The former Special Prosecutor, Martin Alamisi Amidu has disclosed that he regrets accepting the proposal of Nana Akufo-Addo to be the Special Prosecutor.
He expressed sadness for trusting President Nana Akufo-Addo in such a sheepish manner as well as naively accepting to be the Special Prosecutor in 2018.
”The only regret I have in life is to have trusted President Nana Akufo-Addo in such a sheepish manner as to have allowed him to have conned me into agreeing to be his Special Prosecutor in a naive but sincere belief on my part that he was intent on fighting corruption and was also against using the process of criminal justice administration as an instrument of political discrimination against his political opponents”, the former SP wrote in an article.
He made this statement after the Attorney General and Minister of Justice Godfred Anim Yeboah Dame stated in an interview on Metro TV that Martin Amidu wouldn’t have become Special Prosecutor if not for his spirited defense in court as a Deputy Attorney General.
”The position and status of Special Prosecutor was not one I would ordinarily have agreed to be nominated and appointed to after declining nomination for the Supreme Court in 199 as I indicated on oath at my vetting but for the fact the President invited, cajoled, promised and assured me that the appointment was going to be on terms of personal to me and vowed to ensure my independence and that of the office”, he responded to the Attorney General.
