Infantile Amidu has nothing useful to offer – Prof. Asare

Respected US-based lawyer Prof. Stephen Kwaku Asare believes former attorney general Martin Amidu must be ignored because “he has nothing useful to offer” as far as the judicial corruption scandal is concerned.

Amidu and undercover journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas have been at each other’s throat after the former accused the latter of doing the government’s bidding to spite the judiciary.

The former Interior Minister has gone ahead to call President John Mahama names such as a “dishonest and disgraceful Northerner.”

Prof. Asare feels Amidu is embarking on a diversionary move to sway the media’s attention from the crux of the main issue.

“I have studied all the submissions of Amidu on Anas' undercover investigation of the judiciary. There is no iota of wisdom or sound legal reasoning in Amidu's assertions. In my opinion, he is allowing his apparent political quarrels with the President to cloud his judgment,” the accounting professor said in a Facebook post.

“Amidu has nothing useful to offer in this judicial saga and seems to be distracting the media from focusing on issues that matter. His questions are infantile and seem to confuse undercover journalism with security services.

“If Amidu's hooey that the President's conduct will preclude a northener from being elected as President in the next 3 decades, then equally the Vice-President's conduct should preclude a southener from being elected as Vice-President during the same time period.

“The media should stop glorifying Amidu's palpable self aggrandizement and focus on the delay in the prosecution of the corrupt judges.”