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By William Yaw
Owusu
Tuesday,
November 29, 2016
Former Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Martin A.B.K. Amidu,
has repeated his description of the Mahama-led National Democratic Congress
(NDC) government as ‘kleptomaniac looter.’ He has therefore, rallied the
electorate not to hesitate in kicking President Mahama and his team out of
office on December 7.
Mr. Amidu, who is a leading member of the ruling party but appears
to have fallen out with it over widespread corruption matters, said that that would
be the surest way of getting the NDC’s embattled financier, Alfred Agbesi
Woyome, to refund the GH¢51.2 million he unlawfully collected from the state
without any work done.
“Citizens, you have a choice
to make. How much longer will we hear stories of inadvertence, mischief and
connivance by an incumbent government that strips the Republic’s coffers bare
so that ordinary Ghanaians must suffer financial hardship? Put Ghana first; and
let us get our looted money back by voting the incumbent looter government out
on 7th December, 2016,” Mr. Amidu aka Citizen Vigilante, charged in a statement
released on Sunday.
Spurious
Allegation
Reacting to what he called “spurious allegation” leveled against him
by Mr. Woyome, the former AG said it was clear that the Mahama-led government
is solidly behind Woyome to keep the money and also making him (Woyome) to
unleash attacks on him.
He said President Mahama has personally been accusing him (Amidu) of
falsehood when he (president) should have known that he (Amidu) was never part
of the decision to order the payment to Woyome, saying if the government had not
been complicit in the whole matter, it would have come to his defence when the
embattled NDC financier attacked him in the media.
Mr. Amidu said there was no way he would have authorized the payment
and that subsequent investigations, including the Sole-Commissioner’s report (for
which the government issued a White Paper) as well as the Supreme Court, confirmed
the fact that he had nothing to do with the transaction.
“I heard him allege that I ordered or authorized a September 2011
payment of the loot which the Ministry of Finance paid to Woyome by transfer
into his accounts. These spurious allegations are untrue and symptoms of mental
exhaustion and stress coming from the lootee of the public purse.”
Gov’t Surrogate
Mr. Amidu said, “One would have expected that if the lootee Woyome
was not the surrogate of the incumbent looter government, then the incumbent government
would have come to my defence because it accepted the Commission of Enquiry report
in a White Paper.
Instead, in his interviews on television and radio, the president
continues to accuse me of falsehood and goads Woyome and his ministers on to
insult me via the electronic media for defending the Constitution.
“It is clear where the incumbent government’s support lies in the
Woyome matter. The lootee, Woyome, and the incumbent looter government
succeeded in their aim to do whatever it took for the Supreme Court to reverse
its decision and order dated 16th November, 2016 in preventing me from
examining Woyome orally on oath on 24th November, 2016. Woyome did not only
file an application to discharge or reverse the order for his examination at
9.52 am on 23rd November, 2016.”
He said Mr. Woyome followed this up by filing at 1.30 pm an
application for the stay of proceedings “to disable me from examining him the
next morning,”
adding, “It was not accidental that the government which argued
against my application to examine Woyome orally on oath, on 10th November, 2016
was this time round made the 2nd Respondent in surrogate Woyome’s applications.
Common sense makes such tricks quite obvious to the ordinary person.”
Woyome’s State
Citizen Vigilante said that Woyome’s outbursts on radio appeared to
be “contributions of someone who is mentally exhausted, extremely tired and
frustrated, and his comments ought to be ignored.”
“However, the files on this loot of the public purse by the
incumbent government for its lootee and surrogate, Woyome, are in government
custody and one expects a dignified government to have told the public by now
that its surrogate is pathologically adverse to the truth, especially when he
associates me with any payments of the looted public purse or any proposed
interest. The incumbent government knows this is untrue, as its own Commission
of Enquiry has found.”
Mr. Amidu said although he had severally responded to some of the
allegations, “The media and the public are being hoodwinked by Woyome’s
outburst and the incumbent government’s overwhelming silence to set the records
straight.”
Economic Hardships
“The fact remains that the people of Ghana are enduring economic
hardships now because of this incumbent looter government of the public purse. I
entreat fellow citizens once more to read between the lines and come to their
own justified conclusion that the only way the Republic and the people of Ghana
can get their looted Woyome money back is to vote out this kleptomaniac looter government
and president on 7th December, 2016.”
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