The Big Brother Conspiracy Theory of Mr. Martin Amidu; Should Ghanaians be Worried?

By Stanley Seshie

Conspiracy theories are in most cases convincing. The theories piece

together seemingly unrelated events that forces people to find links

where probably there is none. After all the traditional logic of

"cause-and-effect" is the easiest means of interpreting collections of

events in the human world. Therefore, to most of us, correlation is

causation. All they have to do is bring almost all scattered events

together in one garden, and the human mind will do the rest of the

trick of finding the pattern of causation even if there is none.

This generic tendency to impose order on disorder is likely the

background of Mr. Maritn Amidu's recent epistles of letters on the

heels of Government and the "dummy and fraudulent unregistered" Tiger

Eye PI. The whole epistles is but intelligently putting together

events and comments of Government and Tiger Eye PI in one garden and

inviting the public to look in. So let us look into the Amidu's

garden.

In the garden, usually most of the people in the Executive arm of

Government are drawn from the Legislative arm as well, hence

composite. The Judiciary is the only theoretically (maybe also

practically) separate and independent functional arm. However, the NDC

Government had always, since the times of late President Mills sees

the independent Judiciary as an appendage of the Opposition NPP. This

perception thrived not only among the current Officials, but it was

even shared by most Ghanaians.

This perception was seemingly "justified" since the Government had

never won any trials in court against the former government Officials

that it sees as engaged in fraudulent and explicit acts of corruption.

In addition, the former Officials and their staunch supporters openly

boast of it, in what they termed as the inability of this Government

(or is it the impenetrability of a pretentious independent Judiciary,

rather controlled by Opposition NPP) to competently prosecute the

former State Officials given the batteries of allegations of

wrongdoings during their tenure.

In sum, nothing had been done to realizing the main campaign message

of late President Mills led NDC Government, which is to launch an

unrelenting and uncompromising blistering attack against corruption

and make it unattractive hence risky to engage in by Government

Officials down to the civil servants. Annoyingly, all efforts towards

doing so, particularly via punishment of former Officials via legal

means are met with internal resistance in the Judiciary under the

pretense of insufficient evidence.

The thought to investigate the Judiciary was born. But, going forward

into 2015, in the views of Mr. Martin Amidu not only had the fight

against corruption failed miserably, worst of all, the current

Government Officials has taken over the driving wheels of corruption.

Whether on the blind side of the late President Mills to the living

and ruling successor John Dramani Mahama, the NDC composite Government

is systematically engaged in acts of corruption involving colossal

sums of money.

At least the cases that come to mind to buttress the cases pointing

towards systemic corruption as perpetrated by this Officials are the

wrongful payment of huge sums of money to Isofoton, Waterville, Woyome

and others such as SADA. That, he, Mr. Martin Amidu had had to

retrieve some for the nation through the courts though the complicit

Government via the Attorney General says nothing could be done about

the payment. The perception of systemic corruption perpetrated by this

new Government pervades and grips the populace as well. In sum, the

NDC Government, via the lens of Mr. Martin Amidu, is more corrupt than

it is not. As a result they are seeking protection.

The protection will be found in confirming the perception of

corruption in the Judiciary. So, the composite Government had

succeeded in rolling in the Judiciary via the works of Tiger Eye PI

led by Anas Aremeyaw Anas. Through Anas work, corruption in the

Judiciary is no longer a perception. It is a reality, a confirmed one

for that matter to both the public and the Government. Beyond the

public jubilation of their confirmed suspicion, maybe, at least to the

Government this also tentatively explains why no case had ever be won

against the former Officials.

What is worst, the public is bamboozled into hanging seriously onto

the Judicial corruption scandal to the neglect of the already

established (though always denied) rampant canker swallowing up the

Executive tied to the Lesgislative members that constitute the

Government. In other words, the lackadaisical attitude of Government

in attacking corruption within itself has found a fitting smokecreen

in that of the Judiciary. They must deal with corrupt Judges.

Interestingly, dealing with the Judges will certainly take time since

technicalities and legalities will dominate the procedures and

understandably so.

However, since it is in the interest of the public that the Government

deal with such Judges, they have to do so in ways that will not

undermine the Judiciary as a whole. Moreover, since it is impossible

and illogical to declare the Judges not tempted by Anas' methodical

investigation work as incorruptible, the best option is to let some of

the Judges caught by Tiger Eye PI appear so. So even if there are no

video to the effect (as alleged by Mr. Martin Amidu), that some of the

Judges resisted the bribes and threatened to sue Tiger Eye PI, ( which

they not have done) the people will certainly buy into them. And they

did.

Accordingly, the public is satisfied and ready to vilify and crucify

the alleged corrupt Judges than ever finding out if indeed there are

some who overcame the temptation. Also via the lens of Mr. Martin

Amidu, more crucial to this implied corrupt Government is penetrating

to making to planting cronies and clerisies of Judges as suspected to

have been done by the main Opposition NPP long ago. In that regard,

the NDC Government saved some Judges and selected others for

prosecution.

The Judges selected for protection via the fiat of the Government and

presented to the public as incorruptible among the tempted lots, are

in fact the beginning of NDC gaining root in the Judiciary. Thanks to

the works of Tiger Eye PI led by Anas Aremeyaw Anas, these protected

Judges have video documented skeleton in the coffins to fear for any

thought and action of non-commitment towards NDC as a Government now,

or a party someday in the Opposition.

Therefore, Mr. Martin Amidu, whilst recognizing the indispensable good

works of Anas, believes that the Government is using Tiger Eye PI to

achieve ulterior motives probably unknown to Anas. Anas' corruption

scandal work is done, and complete. Nevertheless, it will be naive to

limit the use of the work to simply expunging corrupt Judges from

Judiciary. It has the potentiality of giving birth to Big Brother,

especially if the alleged total works of Anas that is not limited to

Judiciary alone, but includes the tied Executive and Legislative arms

as well remains hidden.

So what is the Big Brother theory? According to Mr. Martin, the Big

Brother theory describes a Government with damning information about

some members of its arms (Executive, Legislature and Judiciary) which

will ensures that the latter kowtows to the wills of the former

throughout. In this case, the composite Government had in its

possession a video of corrupt practices involving the Opposition MPs

serving on various Committees of Parliament. If it is released, the

public will blame the ruling Government more than the Opposition, for

without its will and initiative such a collusion (if there is) cannot

go on. Meanwhile if kept secret forever, it will equally serve as a

seal for both NDC and NPP, the two leading parties that Ghanaians

always alternate political power between.

This means, going forward, with some Judges calculatedly saved and

portrayed as incorruptible, it will be impossible to, ever pronounce

any politician guilty of any malfesance in this country as far as

those skeletons exist (if it exist at all) unknown to the public. In

principle then, this symbiotic collaboration gives the Big Brother (a

ruling Government), the leveraging power to do almost anything. The

Judiciary cannot even talk because, in the minds of Ghanaians via the

works of Anas, they have no moral ground to. Now let us get out of the

garden. Whatever you see in this garden is yours.

It is imaginable that Mr. Martin Amidu actually has no concrete to

back up his claims against the possible collusion (known to both or

known to only one party) between the Government and Tiger Eye PI than

rely on piecing together events and comments from the past as

conspiracy theorists do. Of course, no matter how convincing

conspiracy theories are, they forever lack the needed concrete

evidence to nailing their induced conviction. Meanwhile it is equally

important to be reminded that "absence of evidence is not evidence of

absence" especially in the evolving political matters of corruption

where subtlety is the Chinese wall separating the people from their

leaders.

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