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By William Yaw
Owusu
Tuesday, January
17, 2017
Former Attorney General and Minister of Justice Martin A.B.K. Amidu,
has observed that President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo will succeed if he
pursues his anti-corruption agenda without fear or favour.
“Many Ghanaians, like me, are not followers of your political party
but I dare say that as long as you continue occupying that high moral ground
and fight corruption in deeds you will succeed and your first four-year tenure
will usher in the golden age of Ghana again,” he underscored.
In a news release yesterday, the anti-corruption crusader (who is
fondly called Citizen Vigilante) said President Akufo-Addo should never follow
the example of former President John Mahama whom he accused of supervising the
looting of the treasury with impunity.
“All that these ordinary and committed citizens care about is that
you never repeat the mistakes of your immediate predecessor’s government which
simply took Ghanaians for granted as undiscerning and looted them to pulp,”
Citizen Vigilante charged.
Mr. Amidu said the controversial bungalow request by ex-President Mahama,
who is appearing to be his (Amidu’s) bitterest rival despite being in the same
political party, had blighted the transition process, but said it was
premeditated.
He said the only shortcoming of President Akufo-Addo so far is the
handling of the Mahama request to keep his official residence located at the
No. 3 Prestige Link, Cantonments, Accra, a request which he said the new
administration should not have countenanced in the first place.
“The John Mahama retirement residence and office saga nearly cost
you well-meaning supporters both in your political party and amongst ordinary
citizens of good will,” he told President Akufo-Addo.
He said that in spite of the former president’s schemes, “The
ordinary Ghanaian was quick to see that Mahama had with preconceived malice
planned for years to take the Vice President’s residence for himself as his
life-long retirement home right after Professor Mills’ demise,” adding “Even
the ordinary Ghanaian sitting in the Madina tro tro bus realized that Mahama’s
scheme of remaining in the Vice President’s official residence instead of
moving to the presidential residence at the Flagg Staff House was part of his
pre-meditated and internalized looting behaviour of state assets.”
Mr Martin Amidu admonished, “Mr. President, you have been in office
for a week already and in the process of forming your Government. Ghanaians
exhibit a great deal of goodwill for you to succeed as president. But make
haste slowly and be fairly sure of each step you take.”
He said that President Akufo-Addo’s anti-corruption promise and
agenda won him the election and that Ghanaians are expecting the president to
fulfill that promise, saying, “Mr. President there is no gain saying that the
experiences of the majority of Ghanaians in the immediate past few years have
generated tremendous support and enthusiasm for your professed cause of action
to save our dear country within the next four years.
“Remember always that governance as a human enterprise is
susceptible to unforeseen natural contingencies that affect every human endeavour,
whatever one’s good intentions and wishes. It works like applying quantum
mechanics theory in social and political interactions.
“In these coming four years, your fate for the success or failure of
the management of the enterprise called Corporate Ghana, is solely in your own
and exclusive hands.
“In whatever you do for the next four years, remember that unlike
your predecessor whose mandate was based on a casting vote of the Supreme
Court, you received the overwhelming vote of the entire nation, in spite of
deliberate attempts by the incumbent to rig the elections.”
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