Posted on: www.dailyguideghana.com
By William Yaw Owusu
Friday, November 13, 2015
Former Attorney General (AG)
Martin A.B.K. Amidu says he should never be compared to popular investigative
journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas in the fight against corruption because they are
not in competition.
“The
difference between Anas Aremeyaw Anas and me is that he is a for profit covert
agent who operates to divert attention from political corruption in the
Government whilst I expose Government political corruption,” he insisted.
Anas, the former
Attorney General said, “is not my age mate. My son is older than him and he is
older than my last daughter by three years.”
As far as Martin Amidu is concerned, “there is no competition between me
and Anas.”
Mr Amidu, who has come to be
known as Citizen Vigilante for his anti-corruption exploits, appears to be on
the path of dismantling the investigative piece compiled by the popular investigative
journalist and his Tiger Eye PI team which details the bribery and corruption
in the judiciary that rocked the nation recently.
He has
persistently insisted that the Mahama-led NDC government ‘commissioned’ Anas to
investigate the allegation of bribery and corruption, the results of which have
sent tongues wagging.
Mr Amidu questioned the integrity of Anas’ recent investigation
into judicial bribery, saying the undercover journalist was being used by
government for propaganda purposes.
Anas has
variously parried Mr Amidu’s claims as false and said he has been working
independently to expose rot in the country but anytime the popular journalist rebuts
the claims, the former AG hits back.
"Mr Amidu, you have been a
symbol of the anti-corruption fight. The light of your candle has probably
blazed and radiated our path. Kindly rest, assured that our work does not seek,
in any way, to dim or diminish your glow and radiance.
"We recommend to you the deeply reflective eternal words of the
American clergyman, James Keller that “a candle loses nothing by lighting
another candle.”
"We add our own words that the brightness of your candle is not in
any way reduced when another lighted candle is brought into the room. You have
done a great job," Anas wrote on Facebook
in reaction to Amidu’s latest epistle.
Government Service Passport
“He is a paid commissioned agent
of government with a biometric Government Service Passport whilst I am a private
not for profit anti-crusader,” Amidu said in his latest article copied to the
media yesterday.
“As a former Deputy
Attorney-General, Minister of the Interior with additional responsibility for
Security and Intelligence, and Attorney-General, I can swear on my honour that
the Ghana Police Service, Bureau of National Investigations, the National
Security Coordinator’s office, the Military Intelligence, and other domestic
and external investigative and intelligence agencies established under the 1992
Constitution when well-funded could have done more creditably what the dummy
and fraudulent Tiger Eye PI produced for payment in dollars.
“This Gargantuan politically
corrupt Government declared in my Supreme Court cases, chooses to bypass the
constitutional security agencies to use the dummy and fraudulent Tiger Eye PI
only for its own selfish financial, corrupt and unconstitutional reasons,” he
added.
Company Registration
He said “an anti-corruption
activist must himself be a man of unblemished integrity and law abiding; that
is why Tiger Eye PI, known on its webpage-tigereyepi.org- as Tiger Eye PI:
Private Investigation Agency in Ghana, must confirm its statement of yesterday
that there is a company registered under the laws of Ghana as Tiger Eye PI or
Tiger Eye PI Limited.”
“I have contended that Tiger Eye
PI, described as a private investigation agency in Ghana, is a dummy, criminal,
and fraudulent vehicle scamming the domestic and international public,” he
stated, adding, “Tiger Eye PI’s response is that I am right in only so far as
it failed to use the suffix limited after its name to read Tiger Eye PI Limited
as demanded by the Companies Act, 1963 (Act 179). This contention by Tiger Eye
PI is a deliberate and dishonest falsehood unbecoming of an anti-corruption
activist of any integrity because there is no company registered under the laws
of Ghana known as Tiger Eye PI Limited.”
The former AG said that “there
is no registered company in the register of companies with such objects whether
described as Tiger Eye PI or Tiger Eye PI Limited and Ghanaians demand proof as
alleged by Tiger Eye PI and its lawyer, Mr Kissi Agyabeng, of the registration
number and date of incorporation of the said company he claims is Tiger Eye PI
Limited.”
Employing Agents
He insisted that “Tiger Eye PI
or Tiger Eye PI Limited should produce its licenses and permits to employ
agents in Ghana in compliance with LI 1517 since its establishment and
undercover work. It is the non-compliance with the laws of Ghana in which it
operates that makes it a dummy, criminal and fraudulent scam on the world like
any 419.”
Mr Amidu said that Tiger Eye PI,
described as a private investigation agency in Ghana, “must do this having
regard to the fact that the only registered company is Tiger Eye PI Media
Limited with registration Number CA-57,546 incorporated on 7th April, 2009 with
Anas Aremeyaw Anas as the sole shareholder.”
“Lawyers (if properly trained)
know that the dummy Tiger Eye PI Limited, as Mr Kissi Agyabeng now calls it,
cannot be the same as the lawfully registered Tiger Eye PI Media Limited in any
circumstances under the laws of Ghana.”
He said that ‘accountable’ and ‘transparent’
answers with ‘utmost integrity’ to his claims “will establish once and for all
that Anas Aremeyaw Anas and his Tiger Eye PI on his website are not a credible
business under the laws of Ghana...”
“Insulting me does not wish away
the criminal fraud Anas Aremeyaw Anas and his dummy Tiger Eye PI’s perpetrated
in collaboration with his employers, this NDC Government.”
Mr Amidu said that the government
could have handled investigations into judicial corruption without “commissioning
or standing by for a dummy and fraudulent Tiger Eye PI to do any undercover investigations
for it.”
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