Amidu flays deputy AG Ayineh for attacking 'Woyome Judge'

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Kay 10 years ago

Keep on firing them the members of your party are criminal,we will help you to send them to opposition so that you and the Rawlingses take your party from them.

Keep on firing them the members of your party are criminal,we will help you to send them to opposition so that you and the Rawlingses take your party from them.
Kosi Ametefe Dogbe 10 years ago

Kay,
This is not NPP/NDC. It is an action taken by a statesman to ensure the looting is checked.

Who the heck does Dominic Ayineh to comment on the performance of judges. Can you imagine this happening in another country? ...
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Kay,
This is not NPP/NDC. It is an action taken by a statesman to ensure the looting is checked.

Who the heck does Dominic Ayineh to comment on the performance of judges. Can you imagine this happening in another country?

Dominic, dont scandalise the High court judge. There is something we call independence of the 3 arms of govt,and what you are doing is tantamount to bullying
You should be ashamed of yourself

How would history remember you lot 30 years from now?

Shame, shame, shame
OSEI TAWIAH 10 years ago

Big example of Ghanaian hypocrisy on your part. Where in the comment did Kay talk about NPP? How do you know which party Kay belongs to? You see, Ghanaians are hypocrites who always act like they want the truth but afraid to ...
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Big example of Ghanaian hypocrisy on your part. Where in the comment did Kay talk about NPP? How do you know which party Kay belongs to? You see, Ghanaians are hypocrites who always act like they want the truth but afraid to be honest. What is wrong with attacking the NDC? They have thieved the money through Wayome and everybody knows that, if not, why are all of them attacking Amidu? So how can you say this is not about NDC? Amidu should be given all the assistance to remove these disgraceful thieves from ruling the country.
C.Y. ANDY-K 10 years ago

And what is cowardly and hypocritical about what Kosi wrote? I pray, tell us. If anything at all, you are the hypocrite.

Kay mentioned Amidu's party, - "your party members are criminals" - which PARTY everybody knows is ND ...
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And what is cowardly and hypocritical about what Kosi wrote? I pray, tell us. If anything at all, you are the hypocrite.

Kay mentioned Amidu's party, - "your party members are criminals" - which PARTY everybody knows is NDC, to go into opposition, ostensibly for NPP to take over. Is that not a politicisation of a clearly criminal case which Kosi is writing against?

You NPP people, from the yobos like you on Ghanaweb to your leaders in Ghana, have clearly unduly politicised
this case from the very beginning, thereby pushing the small-minded young men running the NDC from the Castle to Flagstaff House, many of whom were not even PNDC activists, into the corner This has led to their taking decisions which resulted into the collapse of the case against Woyome alone. You NPP members are therefore doing all Ghanaians a big disservice! Stop it!

Look at what you wrote yourself? Where is the evidence that the NDC as a party organised the scam? Why then did Mills order that Woyome should NOT be paid? Just a ruse or part of the plot to deceive Ghanaians? Why are JJ and Amidu very upset and gunning for heads to roll? Oh! Woyome forgot to give them some of the loot, eh? Please, stop your small-minded, pedestrian politicsation of this case.

Meanwhile, I am not surprised by Amidu's present. I vented my own expletives on Dr Ayine when his outburst came out.

Andy-K
HUMANISM 10 years ago

THE A-G & HER DEPUTY SHOULD RESIGN.

THE A-G & HER DEPUTY SHOULD RESIGN.
IDRISU 10 years ago

Which fire? is Amidu normal at all? H e is such a self-centered man, braggart and full of himself. Does he have any work doing at all? Sacked AG, stop disturbibg our ears with your empty tract record, if you were that intelli ...
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Which fire? is Amidu normal at all? H e is such a self-centered man, braggart and full of himself. Does he have any work doing at all? Sacked AG, stop disturbibg our ears with your empty tract record, if you were that intelligent, you would not have been booted out. Knowledge of the law alone is not enough. You lack good manners and emotional intelligence. See whae you havebeen reduced to? One man figher with pan fool respect. THATS WHAT IT IS.
FMK 10 years ago

WHO CAN SAVE THIS MAN FROM GOING MAD. WHAT IS HIS POSITION NOW? IF THE DEPUTY AG CRITICIZED A JUDGEMENT THAT YOU CLAIMED GOVT IS NOT WILL TO EXECUTE, THEN SOMETHING IS WRONG WITH YOUR HEAD. STOP BLOWING YOUR OWN HORN.

WHO CAN SAVE THIS MAN FROM GOING MAD. WHAT IS HIS POSITION NOW? IF THE DEPUTY AG CRITICIZED A JUDGEMENT THAT YOU CLAIMED GOVT IS NOT WILL TO EXECUTE, THEN SOMETHING IS WRONG WITH YOUR HEAD. STOP BLOWING YOUR OWN HORN.
Nana Yaw 10 years ago

Where was this crazy sore loser after the supreme verdict against the 419 "yenti gyae" NPP 2012 presidential election lawsuit? A fraudulent lawsuit designed to deny Alan Cash his chance in 2016!!!!

Where was this crazy sore loser after the supreme verdict against the 419 "yenti gyae" NPP 2012 presidential election lawsuit? A fraudulent lawsuit designed to deny Alan Cash his chance in 2016!!!!
Nana Yaw 10 years ago

President Obama and his attorney general criticize the courts including the supreme court, and both are Harvard Law scholars!

President Obama and his attorney general criticize the courts including the supreme court, and both are Harvard Law scholars!
Kosi Ametefe Dogbe 10 years ago

They do, but do you the number of rebuttals that come after and the attacks they get.

They do, but do you the number of rebuttals that come after and the attacks they get.

Kosi Ametefe Dogbe 10 years ago

What is that got to do with the attack on the sitting high court judge by a current minister?

What is that got to do with the attack on the sitting high court judge by a current minister?
Nana Yaw 10 years ago

How many democrats do know have disagreed with Obama or Holder for their criticism of the courts? Even Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg joins the president and the attorney general in their disagreements with supreme courts on cer ...
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How many democrats do know have disagreed with Obama or Holder for their criticism of the courts? Even Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg joins the president and the attorney general in their disagreements with supreme courts on certain rendered decisions!
United Ghana 10 years ago

Of course he's perfectly entitled to disagree with the judgement of the court, so you appeal, but to say the judge's mind had already been made up before the hearing is unacceptable and a direct accusation that he's dishonest ...
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Of course he's perfectly entitled to disagree with the judgement of the court, so you appeal, but to say the judge's mind had already been made up before the hearing is unacceptable and a direct accusation that he's dishonest. These NDC people are arrogant & power drunk.
NTRA SAKYI 10 years ago

That is your perception of Kuffuor ' s government. Do you think if Amidu has perceived something untoward against that government he would have kept quiet? Ghanaians need to reason a bit for God put in your brains to do exac ...
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That is your perception of Kuffuor ' s government. Do you think if Amidu has perceived something untoward against that government he would have kept quiet? Ghanaians need to reason a bit for God put in your brains to do exactly that and stop acting as fools.
Boamah Gyamerah 10 years ago

You are very amazing in your comparisims. Of course is judgement can be critized by every citizen including the president and his AG but it is criminal for anybody including the president and more criminal for the AG of all p ...
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You are very amazing in your comparisims. Of course is judgement can be critized by every citizen including the president and his AG but it is criminal for anybody including the president and more criminal for the AG of all people to scandalize the Judiciary, interfere with the inherent democratic principle of the independence of the judiciary and contravene Articles of Constitution. Nana Yaw when did Obama or any member of his government commit one of the above offences and was left off the legal hook in the US? Do you remember the prosecution of President Clinton as a sitting president for pujury because of his sexual affair with Monica Lewinsky?
Annorwuo 10 years ago

Disjointed 'treatise',you get the feeling he feels,he should still be the bona fide occupier of the AG & Justice Ministry portfolio!
Look,spending two decades under the safe wings of Obed Asamoah,does not make a natural heir ...
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Disjointed 'treatise',you get the feeling he feels,he should still be the bona fide occupier of the AG & Justice Ministry portfolio!
Look,spending two decades under the safe wings of Obed Asamoah,does not make a natural heir to the 'throne' in the absence of the master!
The glaring irony in Amidu`s piece,is the constant refrain that everybody else,save himself,ought to resign or be removed from the two top slots at the AG`s dept. Of course,we all know this guy is hopping mad because he was canned by the late Prez Atta Miils. What a guy!
JA 10 years ago

Even me, a non-lawyer, was ashamed that the deputy A-G attacked the judge the way he did in the media.

Even me, a non-lawyer, was ashamed that the deputy A-G attacked the judge the way he did in the media.
ANDROPOV 10 years ago

this martin amidu guy is becoming something else. i think he has no job. is it every stupid thing that one says that needs a response. Martin get a life

this martin amidu guy is becoming something else. i think he has no job. is it every stupid thing that one says that needs a response. Martin get a life
Kwame 10 years ago

I stated on the first day this matter came into the web that there is an agreement between the state and Mr. Alfred Agbeshi Woyome and he has the right to be compensated. That is a human right and the failure of somebody to a ...
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I stated on the first day this matter came into the web that there is an agreement between the state and Mr. Alfred Agbeshi Woyome and he has the right to be compensated. That is a human right and the failure of somebody to act according to the rules and refusal to send the same agreement or contract to parliament does not take the right of the citizen to compensation from him or her.
Osuo Abrubuor 10 years ago

How does a man who was working on behalf of another company, have a right to compensation from a Govt that had no direct contract with him?

How does a man who was working on behalf of another company, have a right to compensation from a Govt that had no direct contract with him?

Kwame-Belgium 10 years ago

Well, this man Amidu is finished politically with all his useless noises and allegations. In this present situation, he is very correct with the position of the Deputy AG. of Ghana. Since the Deputy AG. attacked the judgement ...
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Well, this man Amidu is finished politically with all his useless noises and allegations. In this present situation, he is very correct with the position of the Deputy AG. of Ghana. Since the Deputy AG. attacked the judgement of Woyome, it tells me that there is no respect for the justice systems in Ghana.
johny 10 years ago

Amidu the foolish mad man

Amidu the foolish mad man
United Ghana 10 years ago

Johny, this "foolish mad man" has save the country a lot of money. We need more"foolish & mad" men like him. Do you know where your interests lie, unless you benefitted from this fraud

Johny, this "foolish mad man" has save the country a lot of money. We need more"foolish & mad" men like him. Do you know where your interests lie, unless you benefitted from this fraud
Close Observer 10 years ago

ANYBODY WHO TAKES THIS POSITION SO FAR AS THIS MATTER IS CONCERN, IS A THIEF AND A BAD CITIZEN OF GHANA.

ANYBODY WHO TAKES THIS POSITION SO FAR AS THIS MATTER IS CONCERN, IS A THIEF AND A BAD CITIZEN OF GHANA.
Close Observer 10 years ago

IF YOU LIVE IN A GLASS HOUSE, YOU DON'T THROW STONES. NDC AND THEIR TRIBAL POLITICS.

''We have been vice presidents for far too long, it is time you make ONE OF YOUR OWN president''- John Mahama.
WHAT ARE THE REST OF US T ...
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IF YOU LIVE IN A GLASS HOUSE, YOU DON'T THROW STONES. NDC AND THEIR TRIBAL POLITICS.

''We have been vice presidents for far too long, it is time you make ONE OF YOUR OWN president''- John Mahama.
WHAT ARE THE REST OF US TO THE DEAD GOAT?
WE NEED SENSIBLE AND EXPERIENCE PEOPLE TO LEAD GHANA. VOTE THE USELESS NDC PARTY OUT IN 2016. MAHAMA DOES NOT KNOW WHAT HE IS DOING AT THE PRESIDENCY. HE IS ONLY CELEBRATING HIS POSITION LIKE A MOVIE ACTOR. VOTE HIM OUT IN 2016.
Photosy 10 years ago

Amidu has no INTERGRITY . A fool for been just one is bad enough.

Amidu has no INTERGRITY . A fool for been just one is bad enough.
MESSENJAH 10 years ago

A MAN OF INTEGRITY PERIOD !

A MAN OF INTEGRITY PERIOD !
KGD 10 years ago

GREAT CITIZEN OF GHANA. KEEP THE FIRE ON !!!

GREAT CITIZEN OF GHANA. KEEP THE FIRE ON !!!
KO 10 years ago

Courageous man!

Courageous man!
One Day 10 years ago

It is now clear that Ghanaians doesn't want the truth, dislike the truth, and will chose a party instead of the truth. The fact is "Ghana is retrogressing" We are no more one nation, one people with a common destiny. A Par ...
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It is now clear that Ghanaians doesn't want the truth, dislike the truth, and will chose a party instead of the truth. The fact is "Ghana is retrogressing" We are no more one nation, one people with a common destiny. A Paramount Chief thanking the President for nominating somebody from their region to a Ministerial position ? This shows how Ghana has disintergrated to tribal/regional lines and that should not be the case. If a northerner/southerner/voltarian/ashanti/westerner or wherever a person comes from and he or she is competent and capable to be nominated for a position, all Ghanaians should join hands and celebrate, not the region that person comes from. We should stop tribalism.

MIKE 10 years ago

CRAZY AMIDU MUST GIVE US A BREAK.

CRAZY AMIDU MUST GIVE US A BREAK.
Kwapps 10 years ago

Amidu's revelations is an insight into how governments can hoodwink a whole population for their own selfish interest, most of us would be none the wiser had it not been for this selfless god-sent man. I can see how the whole ...
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Amidu's revelations is an insight into how governments can hoodwink a whole population for their own selfish interest, most of us would be none the wiser had it not been for this selfless god-sent man. I can see how the whole NDC party and government have been hijacked by criminals, marginalising the likes of Amidu and Rawlings. Those of you disparaging this man are the direct beneficiaries of this NDC scam he writes about, if not, why would any sane person see anything wrong with his message. Fire will burn each and every one of you!
Edward-Kumasi 10 years ago

Amidu, what do you want?

Amidu, what do you want?
olu 10 years ago

Hamidu is from a family that has spirits of madness. Hamidu own daughter is mentally sick. His own brother is walking around on BOLGA street with mental problem. i think the sickness of madness is gradually catching up with H ...
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Hamidu is from a family that has spirits of madness. Hamidu own daughter is mentally sick. His own brother is walking around on BOLGA street with mental problem. i think the sickness of madness is gradually catching up with Hamidu
OSEI TAWIAH 10 years ago

Trying to sabotage the man will only make you the most stupid person on earth. At this time, everybody knows that Amidu has the heart of a lion so try to reserve your stupidity for now.

Trying to sabotage the man will only make you the most stupid person on earth. At this time, everybody knows that Amidu has the heart of a lion so try to reserve your stupidity for now.
cle kofi 10 years ago

Someone tell this ingrate,fool that we had enough of his nonsense

Someone tell this ingrate,fool that we had enough of his nonsense
Abeeku Mensah 10 years ago

Martin Amidu may be one of Ghana's esteemed legal mind but very much unwise. Judges on court benches across Ghana like their counterparts in other nations do not render decisions in a vacuum but via sound judicial principles ...
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Martin Amidu may be one of Ghana's esteemed legal mind but very much unwise. Judges on court benches across Ghana like their counterparts in other nations do not render decisions in a vacuum but via sound judicial principles and precedents in law. It is therefore incumbent on judges not to render decision in cases before them without understanding of who has judicial standing and the constitutional legal framework the courts could use or if the selected court did have authority to sit on the pending case.

The court and judge who accepted and rendered a decision on the initial Woyome case mattered because its decision, at the very least, showed or implied Woyome had a legal standing and not frivolous. Did the second court and judge who affirmed and awarded damages also fail to do its homework? Are those courts not under the supervision of the Supreme Court? Yes the office of the Attorney General may have failed in mounting a vigorous challenge or defense of government position in the Woyome initial case but Martin Amidu knows darn well judges are obligated to do their homework on cases they adjudicate. It was therefore not beneath or above the offices of the lower courts to have concluded Woyome did not have a case against government because of the constitutional definition of a contract relative to the Woyome case.

Would one be wrong in arguing that but for the constitutional constraint placed on the Supreme Court justices, Woyome would have been victorious in the case of Martin Amidu V Woyome? Under the standard legal definition of a contract, the exchange of services between Woyome and government with the promise of financial reward from government makes it a binding contract. The shame of it all is that Martin Amidu is fighting for a government that chose to defraud its own citizens through misrepresentation, lies and abrogation of standing government best practices and procedures. Yes Martin Amidu is a vigilante but of the worst kind because he helps government to defend an indefensible act using a poorly written article in a morally bankrupt constitution that deemed it fit to carve out indemnity clause to shield wrong doing in office by officials. Where is Ghana’s blind justice who sees no poor, rich and or presumed guilt or innocence of those who come before it?
KOKOLIKOKO 10 years ago

It's one thing to disagree with the content and substance of the Deputy AG's criticism of the judgement; but it's another thing altogether to berate the Deputy AG for either having dared to criticise the judgement or for the ...
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It's one thing to disagree with the content and substance of the Deputy AG's criticism of the judgement; but it's another thing altogether to berate the Deputy AG for either having dared to criticise the judgement or for the form of his criticism!

I may not agree with the content of the Deputy AG's criticism, but I don't see anything wrong, whether ethically or constitutionally, with the fact and form of the criticism!

Firstly, the judgement as a whole, and, in particular, the legal reasoning that informed it, are not beyond reproach! Nor are they cast in some constitutional concrete or protected by some constitutional totalitarianism that puts them beyond criticism or fault-finding! The democracy that holds court judgements sacrosanct and sacred and beyond criticism is not what is practised Ghana!

If judges have a right, and a protection, to reason, the others too have a right, and a liberty, to question their reasoning!

If a judgement, and the legal reasoning underpinning it, are deemed so sound as to assume a hallowed status of being beyond reproach, then, then, they need not be apprehensive of criticism and, indeed, should be subject to the test of criticism!

Secondly, as to the form of the criticism, those choices of language that the Deputy Attorney General is reported to have employed -- namely, "travesty of justice", the Justice's "mind was made up from day one", and the "ruling is a prime example of poor judicial reasoning leading to conclusions that are totally untenable" -- are neither outrageous nor despicable! Nor are they insulting or abusive of the judge!

Some portions of the language may be in bad taste; but that's a matter of opinion -- a subjective issue! Moreover, even if some portions are in bad taste, they shouldn't be so overblown as to overshadow the content and import of the criticism!
OBINNA 10 years ago

I WONDERED FOR A MONMENT WHY AMIDU WAS UNHAPPY WITH THE D-AG. DOES THE CONSTITUTION PREVENT GHANAIANS FROM CRITICIZING JUDGES AND THEIR DECISIONS? I DON'T THINK SO.

I WONDERED FOR A MONMENT WHY AMIDU WAS UNHAPPY WITH THE D-AG. DOES THE CONSTITUTION PREVENT GHANAIANS FROM CRITICIZING JUDGES AND THEIR DECISIONS? I DON'T THINK SO.
Nnn 10 years ago

Amidu said,"The Attorney General is consequently a member of the Judicial Council which oversees the Judicial Service. Dr. Dominic Ayineh, the Deputy Attorney General was therefore better positioned to raise any matter of pro ...
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Amidu said,"The Attorney General is consequently a member of the Judicial Council which oversees the Judicial Service. Dr. Dominic Ayineh, the Deputy Attorney General was therefore better positioned to raise any matter of professional misconduct with any supporting evidence at the appropriate forum against the judge instead of cowardly and scurrilously abusing the Court and the Judge, and scandalizing the whole judiciary in the media without any opportunity for the Court or the judiciary to be heard in its defence"
Any ordinary Ghanaian can criticise but NOT the DA-G, at least in the way he did it
Haile Mengistus Manasseh V11 10 years ago

Martin Amidu seems to have lost his mind. He is criticizing everybody who has something to say contrary to his own held views about this Woyome saga.
By his reaction to the the Deputy Attorney- General's critic of the judge ...
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Martin Amidu seems to have lost his mind. He is criticizing everybody who has something to say contrary to his own held views about this Woyome saga.
By his reaction to the the Deputy Attorney- General's critic of the judgement and the judge,is Martin Amidu creating the impression that he Martin is in favor of the judgement that has set Woyome free?
OSEI TAWIAH 10 years ago

He is only attacking the thieves and hypocrites in the NDC who think they can trap him to goof so that they can disgrace him and run away with their loot.

He is only attacking the thieves and hypocrites in the NDC who think they can trap him to goof so that they can disgrace him and run away with their loot.
Annorwuo 10 years ago

Better part of this self-anointed 'Citizen Vigilante'! Amidu seems to have
forgotten that,this country, as a whole,abandoned the 'Vigilante' stuff,way back in the mid to late eighties!
I still like the man,but all his polit ...
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Better part of this self-anointed 'Citizen Vigilante'! Amidu seems to have
forgotten that,this country, as a whole,abandoned the 'Vigilante' stuff,way back in the mid to late eighties!
I still like the man,but all his political admirers must tell him to tone down the rhetoric,lest he loses his political 'shine'!
Lazy Ant 10 years ago

After a few more articles from Martin Amidu, I think can become a Deputy Attorney General and I will do better Dominic Ayine!

After a few more articles from Martin Amidu, I think can become a Deputy Attorney General and I will do better Dominic Ayine!
Jones 10 years ago

amidu is stupid. i thought he was genuinely against corruption but it seems it's all about himself. the woyome juddge is a disgrace to the ghana courts and amidu should just shut up. what a fool amidu is to defend that corrup ...
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amidu is stupid. i thought he was genuinely against corruption but it seems it's all about himself. the woyome juddge is a disgrace to the ghana courts and amidu should just shut up. what a fool amidu is to defend that corrupt kronfuor judge.
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