POLITICS

Former Executive Director of the Ghana Integrity Initiative (GII), Vitus Azeem has said he didn’t expect the Special Prosecutor to stay up to one year. He said lot of things did not seem right at the time of his appointment including the government’s inability to resource his office. The Special Prosecutor in a statement yesterday shocked the whole world when ...

A United States based Ghanaian professor, Kweku Asare, has expressed dissenting views against Martin Amidu following his resignation as Special Prosecutor. He said Mr Amidu should have stood his grounds and continued with the investigations into the Agyapa Royalties agreement. “My opinion is that the SP should have stood his grounds and continued with the Agyapa investigation. This is exactly ...

The New Patriotic Party has dismissed allegations by the Special Prosecutor, Martin Amidu, that government officials including President Akufo-Addo interfered with his office leading to his exit. Mr Amidu resigned as the Special Prosecutor on Monday claiming that government officials and the presidency were interfering with the independence of his office. Mr. Amidu in a resignation letter to the President ...

The global Covid-19 pandemic is still raging and the general elections in Ghana are also fast approaching. The pandemic continues to cause havoc in Ghana and our government seems to have completely folded its arms in the fight. Not until a week ago when the President, Nana Akufo-Addo in his usual rhetoric, said all Ghanaians should continue to wear masks ...

The ruling New Patriotic Party ( NPP) says it is shocked at the resignation of Special Prosecutor Martin Amidu. According to the party, President Akufo-Addo provided Mr Amidu the necessary space and resources to establish an exemplary anti-corruption office in the country. Mr Amidu resigned as Special Prosecutor on Monday, November 16, citing interference by President Akufo-Addo. In a statement, ...

The Special Prosecutor, Martin Amidu, has resigned from his post. Mr. Amidu in a resignation letter to the President said “I should not ordinarily be announcing my resignation to the public myself but the traumatic experience I went through from 20th October 2020 to 2nd November 2020 when I conveyed in a thirteen (13) page letter the conclusions and observations ...

This is to inform the public that I resigned from my position as the Special Prosecutor of the Office of the Special Prosecutor with immediate effect upon the submission of my letter of resignation with reference number OSP/2/AM/14 dated 16th November 2020 which was received at the Office of the President at 15:15 HRS this afternoon. I should not ordinarily ...

The Minister for Information, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah has commissioned a new radio station called Naya Radio by the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation in Yendi in the Northern Region. At a ceremony on Monday 16th November 2020 , Mr Oppong Nkrumah who is also the MP for Ofoase Ayirebi announced that government and the state broadcaster were working together to set up ...

Founding President of policy think tank Imani Africa, Franklin Cudjoe, has said the Special Prosecutor, Martin has been overrun by corruption in the Ghanaian political space. His comments follow Martin Amidu’s resignation as the first Special Prosecutor in the country’s history. In a lone Facebook post reacting to the news, November 16, 2020, sighted by GhanaWeb, Franklin Cudjoe wrote: “Martin Amidu has been defeated by ...

The Ashanti Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party Bernard Antwi Boasiako popularly known as Chairman Wontumi is reportedly struggling to secure the services of a lawyer in his defamation case against Engineers and Planners Chief Executive Ibrahim Mahama. According to Starrfm.com.gh sources, several lawyers approached by the NPP kingpin both in Accra and Kumasi to handle the case have ...