The Anas Expose: Is Mr Martin Amidu Out of Bounds?

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Anokye Twum Antwi 10 years ago

Sir , you have once again hit the nail spot on. It's becoming difficult to fully criticise Mr Amidu because of his past endeavours to expose corruption in Ghana. You criticise him and you seem to dim his past , but then again ...
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Sir , you have once again hit the nail spot on. It's becoming difficult to fully criticise Mr Amidu because of his past endeavours to expose corruption in Ghana. You criticise him and you seem to dim his past , but then again his current trajectory is simply petty , voyeuristic and downright anti-national interest. May I suggest that some degree of arrogance and envy is creeping in?
insight to the bone 10 years ago

Anas expose will be proven by history to be another elaborate scheme to prosecute more Akan intellectuals.

Anas expose will be proven by history to be another elaborate scheme to prosecute more Akan intellectuals.
HolyGhost 10 years ago

Difficult to criticize Amidu?, he is no hero, all his exposures are born out of jealousy because he not in any position in the government, he has therefore become a bitter man, hence his stupidity and silly comments, no one s ...
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Difficult to criticize Amidu?, he is no hero, all his exposures are born out of jealousy because he not in any position in the government, he has therefore become a bitter man, hence his stupidity and silly comments, no one should take him serious
klinker 10 years ago

Am suspecting that Martin Amidu has been hired by the corrupt judges. If so, it means that Mr. Amidu himself is corrupt. Corruption in this sense does not mean taking money or goat from suspects. If Mr. Amidu could quickly ju ...
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Am suspecting that Martin Amidu has been hired by the corrupt judges. If so, it means that Mr. Amidu himself is corrupt. Corruption in this sense does not mean taking money or goat from suspects. If Mr. Amidu could quickly jump to the defence of the alledged corrupt judges and would not allow justice to flow it means he is corrupt himself. Mr. Amidu should take a second look at himself.
Mike frm Ho. 10 years ago

The man is bitter and angry presumably because, from nowhere, Mahama has become the president of Ghana and he being around for a long time, could not only become a president but was SACKED from government. He is on a clear ...
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The man is bitter and angry presumably because, from nowhere, Mahama has become the president of Ghana and he being around for a long time, could not only become a president but was SACKED from government. He is on a clear parf to sabotage the NDC government.
Moses 10 years ago

IGNORE DISHONEST AND EMOTIONALLY WEAK AMIDU
It has never been about fightig corruption but getting at
people Amidu consider as enemies. By his behaviour Amidu
is not a good material for the position of Ghana President.
He ...
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IGNORE DISHONEST AND EMOTIONALLY WEAK AMIDU
It has never been about fightig corruption but getting at
people Amidu consider as enemies. By his behaviour Amidu
is not a good material for the position of Ghana President.
He is the kind of northerner whose supposed honesty is
meant to fool the public whilst they secretly and in
clandestine ways promote the narrow interest of their families
and colleague lawyers and judges. How can i be proud of a
northerner who is self-centred. A northerner who wants all
other northerners to always say "YES SIR" and beg from him
is not the kind of northerner we need at this time. We need
the northerner who is smart and can compete as an equal in
identifying business opportunities and executing them to help
develop the north. We need smart and brave northerners like
Anas who can risk their lives to go to Thai Prison to get first
hand and credible information to help Mother Ghana. We
don't need a northerner who will in a dishonest way use
information acquired from his office to blackmail other
Ghanaians. How can Amidu compare himself with Anas.
Amidu has not done a quarter of what Anas has done. What
risky investigation has Amidu done except to make
photocopies of government documents and use the
information to terrorise fellow Ghanaians. Anas can easily do
that. But Amidu cannot go to Thai Prison to gather
information. That is the difference. I will rather be a smart
and brave Anas northerner than a dishonest and self-centred
Amidu northerner. Amidu is a very a dishonest northerner
with no innovative and progressive ideas. What interests
Amidu is the President position he missed. Ignore self-
centred and emotionally-weak Amidu. How can such a person
be the President of Ghana? He will be so drunk in his "honest
northerner syndrom" that he will be a liability to the north. We
know northerners who will not help fellow northerners but help
others because of this stupid "honest northerner syndrom".
Samson 10 years ago

Well written, Kofi. I hope Ghanaians see through the hollow propaganda of Amidu who is so consumed by hatred for Mahama and the NDC that he cannot think right anymore. He has nothing to offer anymore and should be ignored.

Well written, Kofi. I hope Ghanaians see through the hollow propaganda of Amidu who is so consumed by hatred for Mahama and the NDC that he cannot think right anymore. He has nothing to offer anymore and should be ignored.
Me 10 years ago

Massa Kofi no comment on npp anaa

Massa Kofi no comment on npp anaa
Godd 10 years ago

Kofi, I don't know if you are interpreting Amidu correctly.

In the first place, I think you're being very prejudicial in trying to even suggest (your operative word is "perhaps") that Amidu is doing what he is doing BECAUS ...
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Kofi, I don't know if you are interpreting Amidu correctly.

In the first place, I think you're being very prejudicial in trying to even suggest (your operative word is "perhaps") that Amidu is doing what he is doing BECAUSE he wants to give the justices a defense or reprieve. Master Ata, that is only in YOUR imagination and nothing Amidu has done or written indicates that it is HIS intention.

Secondly, I may have missed something because I never read Amidu as saying that because Anas was commissioned by the government, his evidence could not be used against the justices. Amidu never stated anything like that. Perhaps that is your own interpretation/deduction which also led you to make the speculation referred to in my point one. Perhaps you can cite Amidu to support your assertion - that he (Amidu) thinks Anas' evidence should not be used against the bribe taking justices (and their helpers) who should then be set free. I will change my view on this upon conviction.

3. Perhaps you should not have described Amidu's "we northerners" statement as "racist". It may be wrong (demeaning) but it is not racist. If we all belong to the same race, then one of us cannot commit acts of racism against the other.

4. I think serious debaters like you, Kofi Ata, should desist from accusing people of "envy" or "hatred" or any such other sentimental things that can never be proven because they describe the psychological states of individuals. Let the argument be on the things we can concretely support with points. Saying somebody is consumed by hatred is not a valid argument because you cannot know if the person is really consumed by hatred. Ask Amidu and he will tell you he is not consumed by hatred. Who are you to say he is lying implying that you are not lying?

I don't think Amidu is making much of the "breach of privacy" argument so there is really no point in bringing it here. As far as I am concerned, even if he were still harping on it, it would be a relevant concern NOT because we want to get the fallen justices off the hook but because of concern for the general rights of the private individual in a democratic society. It seems you are not sensitive to this difference in the argument and you conflate a defense of individual rights with a defense of the fallen justices.

As for the Justice Marfu case, I am not conversant with it and will not comment on it.

I find your conclusions in your concluding paragraphs based more on sentiments rather than on concrete argument. It is saying, in effect, that Anas' work is so overwhelmingly in the public interest, is so groundbreaking and so vital to the fight against corruption in the country that no one should raise any issues against it.

Kofi, isn't that too blanket a request?

The other day, it was people making a distinction between govt commissioning Anas or sponsoring him. Amidu said commissioned. Yesterday, the President said sponsored - if the news reports are to be believed. So there is an argument to make. And we should make it.

I think Amidu should be allowed to have his say. When we see loopholes in his arguments, we should point them out and show how and why they are wrong. This is a national debate. It is a debate because we are not all singing one song of praise to one hero. No matter what happens hereafter, Anas' work is definitely a landmark and game changing move in the history of our country. But we still have to go from there...
Luther King 10 years ago

Amidu said clearly and loudly yesterday on news file that what Anas did was unconstitutional, and even though unconstitutional, it could still be used for administrative purposes but not for criminal prosecution. I find that ...
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Amidu said clearly and loudly yesterday on news file that what Anas did was unconstitutional, and even though unconstitutional, it could still be used for administrative purposes but not for criminal prosecution. I find that contradictory but that is Amidu for u. He is full of bitterness, pettiness, and envy. All his actions have been as a result of this and not a consequence of his fight against corruption. How many corruption cases did he uncover in the Rawlings era.
Ghanaians are grateful for his fight against woyome and Waterville. But his arrogance and bitterness are eroding his gud works in the past. He described Anas' lawyer as a substandard lawyer on eyewitness news.
He has been lying thru his mouth and shd come apologize. He lied that govt commissioned the judicial corruption project and that this was prez mills' last wish. It turned out to be a big lie. He lied again that parliament had watched 20mins of the parliamentary corruption video. This turned out to be another lie. He said prez Mahama was in possession of the parliament scandal video and using it to blackmail parliament. He quotes Mr Baako and Mr Pratt as his sources but these individuals only said work was in progress on the parliament project.
In amidu's haste to crucify Mahama, he is making infantile mistakes that are threatening his hard worn reputation.

Kofi Ata, Cambridge, UK 10 years ago

Good morning, Godd. My conclusion regarding the government involvement is based on law. If the government was involved, then the use of the evidence could be problematic.

It's accurate to describe the language of Martin A ...
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Good morning, Godd. My conclusion regarding the government involvement is based on law. If the government was involved, then the use of the evidence could be problematic.

It's accurate to describe the language of Martin Amidu relating corruption and President Mahama to his ethnic or regional origin as racist. I have worked in race legislation long enough to know that racism is not simply about skin colour. Often some black people wrongly assume that black person cannot be racist towards another black person. In law, race is defined as colour, race, ethnic or national origins, nationality or country of origin including citizenship. From this definition, you should now understand why I described what Amindu said as racist. It even becomes clearer if Mahama and Amindu are not from the same ethnic groups in the three Northern regions of Ghana, which I doubt. Here is the UK if a Ghanaian acts in a discriminatory way (treats one less favourable) towards another Ghanaian but the two come from different ethnic groups in Ghana and the basis of the less favourable treatment was because they are from different ethnic groups then that is race discrimination or racism.

I am not suggesting that Martin Amindu should not have his say on matters of national importance but I am questioning his objective for what he is doing? What is he trying to achieve and is he is fighting corruption or aiding corruption?
Godd 10 years ago

Well, British law may regard what Amidu said about northerners as racism but nobody in Ghana is going to understand that as "racism". The British don't use "tribalism" for themselves (that's for us) and they don't use ethnic ...
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Well, British law may regard what Amidu said about northerners as racism but nobody in Ghana is going to understand that as "racism". The British don't use "tribalism" for themselves (that's for us) and they don't use ethnicism for themselves either. So they may have a different legal definition of racism from what we regard it. I don't know how Ghanaian law defines it or what USA or apartheid law defines it. Do you happen to know?

Yes, if the govt was involved, the use of the evidence could be problematic. It's an argument you've been making all along. Now Mahama says govt was not involved in this one but in some others. (I now see why Anas was issued with a special passport). What do you think are the legal implications (if any) of Anas' link with government on previous operations on the present one that govt is denying responsibility for?

I agree Amidu may be obfuscating his case by the numerous, at times disjointed and contradictory, statements he is issuing on almost a daily basis.

Looks like you know him personally. How old is he? It didn't say on the entry on his Wikipedia page. I want to know because I was arguing the other day that it was not Ghanaian for an elderly person to be so bent on trying to bring a person who can be his son down - and publicly too. I may be wrong about the age difference.
Kofi Ata, Cambridge, UK 10 years ago

Though we did not work in the office, I met him several times through work official functions and other unofficial events post 1982. Unfortunately, I am unable to tell you his age but he must be at least, in late 50 and in h ...
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Though we did not work in the office, I met him several times through work official functions and other unofficial events post 1982. Unfortunately, I am unable to tell you his age but he must be at least, in late 50 and in his 60s.

I do not use the word tribalism as I do not believe there tribes in Ghana or for that matter in the developing world except in a few places. The word tribe in Sociological context refers to uncivilised people. Whilst the developed use ethnicity to describe different (ethnic) groups, tribe is used to describe those in the developing world.

Regarding the definition of race/racism in the UK, the definition is widely used in law but I am not sure what is used in the US and you will be better to know. Of course, in Ghana discrimination is less obvious and not the colour type, though I have read stories on Ghanaweb of Ghanaians being discriminated in their own countries by foreigners for reasons of colour and socio-economic status.

Apartheid was simply a matter of colour and nothing else.

I know Martin to be down to earth person and honest. However, because he was once Vice-Presidential candidate of Mills and the Rawlingses wanted him or Beety Mould Iddrisu as Mills's VP in 2008 but Mills chose Mahama instead and he ended up becoming president by default, there appears to some jealousy. Moreover, because he is not in government and virtually an outcast within NDC he is angry not only at Mahama but NDC as a whole. That is understandable considering his contribution and sacrifices since 1982. However, to use that to discredit Anas is wrong, though his target is Mahama and the government. He is attacking the modus operandi of Anas, yet his own modus operandi leaves much to be desired.
Godd 10 years ago

Thanks for the info on him. I also guessed he must be around his 60s. Me, I don't remember him kuraaa. I left Ghana long ago and don't remember him in my student days in Legon at the end of the 70s... (Ooops - I am also now a ...
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Thanks for the info on him. I also guessed he must be around his 60s. Me, I don't remember him kuraaa. I left Ghana long ago and don't remember him in my student days in Legon at the end of the 70s... (Ooops - I am also now an old man...)

Some of us see some point in some (but not all) of the issues he is raising but if he is doing everything because of some personal vendetta, then we part ways with him. This pursuit should be on principles and that alone, not because somebody has done me something and I must pay back. If he is really on a pay back mission, then he is doing it the wrong way. One can have a good case and still spoil it. He should know that.

No, I am not in the US...
Kwabena Yeboah 10 years ago

Why don't you deal with the substantive issues Martin Amidu raised and stop the nonsense? What part of Amidu's postulations do you not understand? Amidu contends 1) Tiger Eye PI is an illegal entity operating undercover in de ...
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Why don't you deal with the substantive issues Martin Amidu raised and stop the nonsense? What part of Amidu's postulations do you not understand? Amidu contends 1) Tiger Eye PI is an illegal entity operating undercover in democratic Ghana, with protection from its paymaster - the government; 2) Tiger Eye PI is a paid agent of the corrupt NDC government and Anas is being used to do the government's dirty bidding; 3) The corrupt NDC government has issued Anas a service passport as it is in collaboration with Anas' illegal activities.

These are the pertinent issues that Martin Amidu has raised, and very intelligent people in the country are deeply concerned about the flagrant abuse of the Constitution. Why do little minds always take pleasure in trivializing matters of life and death in our fledgling democracy. I think people should rather be appalled by Anas' double standards.

You should stand up and defend Ghana's Constitution at all cost, because without it our country is doomed. Defending the Constitution is the sole preoccupation of Martin Amidu as in all his postulations, he make references to Ghana's constitution.

What is the difference between what the corrupt Mahama and his minions in NDC are doing and Richard Nixon did in the 70s. Richard Nixon commissioned a group to spy on his political opponents, the Democrats, and was humiliated and lost his presidency. Here in Ghana, John Mahama and his NDC criminals are using the same method, spying on their enemies, and you have the temerity to criticize Martin Amidu for exposing the fraudulent Anas.
Godd 10 years ago

Yes, but can you make your points without calling people moronic or with timid minds?

Yes, but can you make your points without calling people moronic or with timid minds?
Kwabena Yeboah 10 years ago

There is an acute intellectual deficit in our country, and because the writer did not spare Martin Amidu in vituperation why should I?

There is an acute intellectual deficit in our country, and because the writer did not spare Martin Amidu in vituperation why should I?
abongo C/4 boy Tema wh 10 years ago

I find it very strange the attitude by Mr Amidu.I thought he had the same course to fight corruption just as anas is doing nd why then this sudden u turn?Mr Amidu ur fight against corruption won many hearts nd why would u wan ...
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I find it very strange the attitude by Mr Amidu.I thought he had the same course to fight corruption just as anas is doing nd why then this sudden u turn?Mr Amidu ur fight against corruption won many hearts nd why would u want to get some people confused.I refuse to but ei go to hell.I won't waist my time to read any article from u anymore

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