[ 2015-03-25 ]

Amidu Flays Al-Hajj Editor: "I Deal With Respected People" Not The Likes Of Bature
The Managing Editor of the Al-Hajj Newspaper,
Alhaji Bature has been labeled a “joker” by
former Attorney General, Martin Amidu.

The former A-G has described a publication
authored by Bature as total fabrication to please
his pay masters.

The Al-Hajj front page publication sought to
reveal the "inside story" why the former A-G and
government legal luminary was sacked some years
back.

Bature’s facts why Amidu was sacked

Dead men they say don’t talk. Prof John Evans
Fiifi Atta Mills is not alive to clear the air on
the raging controversy on what led to the ousting
of former Attorney General and Minister of
Justice, Martin Alamisi Amidu from his
government.

However, I am wondering if my friend, brother and
mentor, Hon Martin Amidu will deny ever uttering
the above excerpts or ‘something to that
effect’ before His Excellency the late President
Mills in that crucial meeting on that fateful day
in January 2012 at the Osu Castle, in the presence
of privileged high ranking government officials.

“Something to that effect” because, Martin
Amidu, the legal luminary that he is, in his
recent epistle to former National Security
Coordinator, Larry Gbevlo Lartey cautioned him and
indeed, all of us who were not physically present
at that crucial 13th January 2012 meeting, but
want our comments on the matter to be the truth.

“He (Gbevlo Lartey) cannot, therefore, be
talking of what really took place at that meeting
from personal knowledge but from hearsay.” Amidu
averred.

Strangely, almost three years after Mills’
demise and Martin Amidu’s dismissal from office,
the former AG has told the world that he lost his
job in government because he had advised the late
President Mills to persuade Mrs Betty Mould
Iddrisu (the former AG he Martin Amidu succeeded)
to be used as prosecution witness in the criminal
trial of Woyome in lieu of her not been
prosecuted.

Perhaps, what the learned legal gem may have
conveniently left out in his statement or
possibly, didn’t want the world to know, was
whether he (Martin Amidu), following his stated
‘misconduct’ or unruly behavior before the
president and his subsequent dismissal, later
regretted his actions?

This paper will today want Mr. Martin Amidu a.k.a
Citizen Vigilante, to tell the whole world whether
he subsequently wrote a letter of apology to the
late President Mills, recanting all the
unfortunate statements and recklessness he put
out?

It is very important for my mentor, (He is my
mentor because of his past high level of integrity
which I revere) to speak to the two issues above,
especially because he had lampooned Larry Gbevlo
Lartey for his purported reliance on hearsay.

Also, it is important because my friend and
brother, ‘Mr. Integrity’ in almost all his
communications since January 2012 has never
acknowledge these two events (at least as far as I
am concern) and, this has been repeated in his
recent piece to the former national security
coordinator.

“Was Gbevlo-Lartey consulted when the President
delegated the then Member of the Council of State
and my senior brother, Alhaji Iddrisu Mahama on
18th January 2012 who invited me to his house with
the demand from the President that I withdraw in
writing my press statement of 12th January 2012 or
be dismissed? I told Alhaji Iddrisu Mahama to
convey to the President that I was ready for any
eventuality and will not ever withdraw that
truthful press statement.

The next day, 19th January 2012 at 1 p. m I was
handed a purported letter of termination of
appointment with immediate effect only for a
letter on the President's official green
stationery to go to the press under the signature
of John Martey Newman stating that I had been
dismissed for misconduct…

Later, representatives of the Government alleged
that my misconduct was that I had failed at the
meeting to name the Ministers of State involved in
the gargantuan crimes. That is when I wrote to the
press and the public that I had named those
Ministers in a report dated 6th January 2012 which
the President had requested from me when I met him
in New York on or about 15th December 2011, a copy
of which I had addressed to the National Security
Coordinator (for purely strategic and tactical
reasons). I never classified the report for good
reasons…

I made a press statement about Ministers of State
involved in Gargantuan crimes. I also advised the
President of my intention as the Attorney General
to prosecute Woyome along with all his accomplices
and to persuade the then Attorney General to be a
witness or be prosecuted. I am then invited by a
Member of the Council of State (incidentally Betty
Mould-Iddrisu's husband) at the behest of the
President and told to withdraw my press statement
accusing members of the Government and its card
bearing members who use the NDC as an insurance
against prosecutions for crime.

The next day the President true to his demand
through Alhaji Iddrisu Mahama purports to dismiss
me with immediate effect. Am I, therefore, wrong
to contend that I was removed from office to
prevent me from prosecuting the offending NDC
Ministers and party members that raped the
nation?”

Like in all his previous articles on this Woyome
saga, Hon Martin Amidu, has expediently kept away
from the world his ‘reprehensible and
contemptible’ conduct towards a sitting
president who appointed him. Amidu has continually
and perhaps deliberately failed and or, refused to
address the issue of ‘misconduct’ as
government communication then stated.

Mr. Martin Amidu has never admitted to being
unruly and disrespectful to the late president
Mills in all his narrations, but The al-hAJJ’s
dependable sources close to the late president
confirmed that, that was what formed the basis for
the former AG’s removal from office and not the
‘so-called advice’, as also reiterated by
Gbevlo Lartey.

Our independent investigations revealed that, in
response to the late President’s request for him
to drop names of ministers he claimed were deeply
involved in the Woyome affair at the 13th January,
2012 meeting, Martin Amidu angrily retorted, to
the face of the late President Mills, that he can
find the names of such persons in a January 6,
2012 memo he submitted to him.

This didn’t go down well with the late president
who insisted he (Martin Amidu) mentioned those
names before his assembled colleague government
officials or get fired to which; Martin Amidu
burst out, raving“… You can take your job, I
don't care, I am a Ghanaian you can't take away my
Ghanaian citizenship... I am a Ghanaian I don’t
need you or your job to survive…”

At which time the then Chief of Staff, Martey
Newman and others shouted at Martin Amidu, telling
him to know he was before the first gentleman of
the land and Commander in Chief of the Ghana Armed
Forces.

Even when his colleagues asked him to retract and
apologize to the President for his unruly
behavior, Martin Amidu won’t budge and won’t
apologize either.
In the heat of the exchanges, Martin Amidu was
matched out of the meeting and subsequently
dismissed, albeit reluctantly (more on that
soon).

The aL-hAJJ can authoritatively state therefore
that assertions by Martin Alamisi Amidu, that he
lost his position in the government of the late
John Mills because he advised the late President
to persuade Mrs. Betty Mould Iddrisu to be used as
a prosecution witness in the criminal case against
Woyome cannot be factual.

Martin Amidu’s reply to Bature

Nonetheless, Martin Amidu was phoned by Adom
FM’s morning show production to clarify the
allegations citied against him by Bature.

But having declined to respond to Bature’s
claims, the former A-G however texted back to the
production team a short message prompting them to
read it live on air.

“Why not publish my so-called letter of apology
for everyone to see. Bature has never been a
government appointee…so why would I respond to
what he claims happened with the president. The
government should publish everything so I can
reply for the public to determine the truth.

“…Bature is not someone I have even taken
seriously…I deal with respected people. Kindly
tell the public of this response,” the message
was read by Adom FM morning show host, Captain
Smart.

Source - Peacefmonline

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