Blame Akufo-Addo If I Am Ever Harmed – Martin Amidu

Former Special Prosecutor Martin Amidu has said if he is harmed in any way or killed, President Nana Akufo-Addo must be blamed for it.

According to him, he has been the target of threats of harm ever since he left office in connection with his corruption and anti-corruption risk assessment report on the controversial Agyapa Royalties deal.

Mr Amidu, who resigned from office as the Special Prosecutor on Monday, 16 November 2020, served notice to the Akufo-Addo government in an audio note that if the attacks on him do not cease, he would be forced to come out to defend his integrity โ€œwithout fear or favourโ€ and damn the consequences.

โ€œPlease, I have said since I left office that I was not going to do any fresh interviews about my resignation, I was not going to talk to the press. I am being pushed by so-called responses to me, which contain blatant falsehoods, to speak but I do not want anybody to blame me when I speak out and it becomes unpalatableโ€, Mr Amidu warned in his audio note.

โ€œSo, either the attacks stop or Iโ€™ll defend my integrity, even if that means my death. It is something I won by dint of hard work from the PNDC to date and Iโ€™m not going to allow anybody, not even the president, to pull that integrity into the mudโ€, the former Attorney-General said.

โ€œI am a poor man who tries to lead a straight and narrow life and crusaded against corruption without asking for payment, so, they will try to destroy meโ€, the Citizen Vigilante noted, adding: โ€œAnybody who tries to fight corruption must be aware from the beginning that corruption will fight back and all that is going on is corruption fighting backโ€.

To him, โ€œit is demonstrating that the whole rhetoric about fighting corruption was mere rhetoricโ€.

โ€œThe time for reckoning has come and nobody should push me. I repeat; nobody should push me,” Mr Amidu warned again.

He said:

โ€œThey should tell their people, who they wrongly briefed to be telling lies about me, to stop before I decide to respond and when I decide to response, Iโ€™ll do so without fear or favour, even to the extent that if my life will be taken for speaking the truth and defending the Constitution of Ghana, as by law established, Iโ€™ll do soโ€.

Mr Amidu stressed that as a private citizen,

โ€œnobody can control me and I have a constitutional right too, to defend myself and the Constitution of Ghana, as by law establishedโ€, indicating: โ€œCorruption and corruption-related offences are forbidden by the Constitution and assessment of anti-corruption is something allowed under the Constitution and must not be subdued under personal attacksโ€.

โ€œIt must stopโ€, he emphasised.

Mr Amidu said his critics and detractors must know that he is a โ€œCitizen Vigilanteโ€.

โ€œThat is what they must rememberโ€, adding:

โ€œAll these threats about bugging me, armed robbery, burning my house, Iโ€™m awareโ€.

According to him, several attempts by him to speak to the Minister of National Security, Mr Albert Kan Dapaah, on the threats against him, have hit dead ends.

โ€œI tried to call Kan Dapaah, he didnโ€™t pick it and I got a former national security advisor to contact him and tell him that, and I know the persons involved, I can name them but I reserve it for the meantimeโ€, he said.

โ€œI put my life for the republic of Ghana and the president will be responsible for anything that happens to meโ€, Mr Amidu charged.

He said there have been a plethora of threats of robbery and arson against him. โ€œThe intelligence is there and I called the minister of national security but he didnโ€™t pick and I got a former national security advisor to speak to him and this fact is now known and I say that the president will be responsible for anything that happens to meโ€.

โ€œIโ€™m a Ghanaian and I donโ€™t fear anything and, as I said, to die in the cause of fighting corruption is what I started with President Jerry Rawlings on 31st December 1982 and Iโ€™m not going to leave it because some people think that they can threaten me. I donโ€™t give a damn about that.

โ€œโ€ฆIf they donโ€™t stop, Iโ€™ll respondโ€, he threatened, saying: โ€œAs to what Iโ€™ll do, I reserve that for myself but as I said, whatever happens to me, I lay my life for the republic of Ghana and the president has a constitutional duty to protect me. I donโ€™t need any security in my house or to follow me. And anybody who makes an attempt, he will have himself to blameโ€.

Mr Amidu also revealed that his kinsmen are ready to come down south in his defence.

โ€œPeople have called and want to come in truckloads from Bawku and I told them that what they are hearing is not true because, as a citizen of Ghana, Iโ€™m entitled to say my mind and defend the Constitution.”

He wondered why there is so much vitriol against him from people in government following his release of the Agyapa report.

โ€œThe fact that you are in government doesnโ€™t mean that when you are dissatisfied about a report, you go after the person or the fellowโ€, he said, revealing: โ€œThe Minister of Finance has been my friend for years; why will I go for him? When I was writing the report, didnโ€™t he come to this house? Was he not here on 21 October? What did I tell him? Why is he now churning our information about me and targets and all that? Should I come out? Letโ€™s stop it and I say letโ€™s stop it before we wash dirty linen in public.”

Source: Class FM

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