Posted
on: www.dailyguideghana.com
By
William Yaw Owusu
Thursday,
August 10, 2017
Former
Attorney-General, Martin A.B.K. Amidu has served notice to the opposition
National Democratic Congress (NDC) that he cannot be cowed into submission in
the party in view of the recent avalanche of attacks directed at him.
He said
the sudden attacks on his person and that of former President Jerry John
Rawlings, founder of the party, are coming from people from the ‘Mahama
Faction’ (in reference to former President John Mahama who just sent NDC into
opposition) in the NDC.
Reacting
to an epistle by a former Deputy Chief of Staff, Valerie Sawyerr in which she
accused Rawlings and Amidu of helping to send the NDC into opposition, the
former AG said he was not in any position to relent on his crusade to ensure a
corrupt-free party.
Amidu
said he is not bothered about any attempt to initiate disciplinary action
against him in the party for speaking his mind following a petition filed by
two failed NDC parliamentary candidates to get him checked.
Party Surrogates
“Clearly
the John Mahama faction, their surrogates like Valerie Sawyerr and the
petitioners who admit to being failed parliamentary candidates at the last
elections and other mentors within the NDC think they can frighten core NDC
members like myself with threats of disciplinary action,” Mr. Amidu said in a statement
yesterday.
He said
the open letter by Mahama’s darling girl, Valerie Sawyerr, who was Senior
Policy Adviser and Head of the Presidential Delivery Unit under the Mahama
administration, was ‘incoherent’ and ‘disjointed’ and described the writer as
throwing ‘drunken-like diatribes.’
“I was
not surprised that the petition followed immediately after Valerie Sawyerr’s
lying, incoherent, disjointed and drunken-like diatribes against former President
Rawlings and me,” he said.
Corruption Crusade
According
to Mr. Amidu, his fight against corruption, particularly in the NDC,
intensified with the Alfred Agbesi Woyome infamous GH¢51.2 million dole out case.
“The
Woyome/Waterville case underpins all my actions in the Supreme Court and
writings since 2012 and I do so in defence of the Constitution and laws of
Ghana, which are superior to the NDC Constitution.”
“Only
strangers would be ignorant that my war against the Mills/Mahama Government is
rooted in the looting of GH¢51.2 million by the Government and Alfred Agbesi
Woyome. I have fought and will continue to fight against the looting and
protection provided to Alfred Agbesi Woyome by the Mahama Government since the
Supreme Court’s review decision against the Government represented by the
Attorney General and Alfred Agbesi Woyome by John Mahama’s Government.”
Outstanding Payments
“There
are still payments by Agricultural Development Bank cheques issued by Woyome to
former Government and party beneficiaries to be retrieved for the State purse.
And where is the Attorney General whom the Supreme Court declared to have
unconstitutionally authorized the payment of the loot of the public purse to
Woyome?”
He said
“So, in as long as the values and principles of the 1992 Constitution which
gave birth to the NDC Constitution are undermined by an NDC Government, I will
continue to defend the national constitution.”
“I will
continue to always put Ghana first before party as demanded by the 1992
Constitution. Let those who oppose the fight against corruption in the NDC and
who also dislike probity and accountability which I stand for with former President
Rawlings do their worst.”
“It is
for that integrity that on 31st December 2016, I was chosen by the Founder to
light the perpetual flame for the fallen heroes of the 31st December
Revolution. I cannot betray that cause and the 1992 Constitution out of which
the NDC was born.”
Initial Attack
Valerie
Sawyerr, whose father served Rawlings as Education Minister, had first attacked
Mr. Rawlings for creating the impression that he was not corrupt before turning
her attention to Mr. Amidu whom she described as ‘pompous with over-bloated
ego.’
She made
an astonishing claim that the former Attorney General at one point attempted to
assault then President John Evans Atta Mills, saying “Barely a week or so after
that, you were relieved of your post as Attorney General after attempting to
assault a sitting Head of State?”
“… and what is Comrade Martin Amidu also
babbling about? Martin, did I not tell you that your pomposity, over-bloated
ego and sense of self-importance constitute your Achilles heel?” she queried.
Resignation
Ms.
Sawyerr had challenged the former AG to resign from the NDC since she said Mr
Amidu was no longer working in the interest of the opposition party, saying “Respectfully
Martin cut the crap! You have achieved your aim … the NDC is in opposition. I
challenge you to resign from the NDC since you no longer promote the cause of
the NDC. Or do you also subscribe to the agenda to destroy to take over? The
agenda that is based on the premise that it is easier to take over the NDC when
it is in opposition!”
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