It is possible OSP forged joint statement with judiciary on fight against corruption – Martin Amidu
Martin Amidu, a former Special Prosecutor, has accused his former office, the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP), of faking a joint statement on corruption published with the Judiciary Service of Ghana.
In a statement, Amidu claimed that the judiciary had no role in the joint statement, which was produced just to make the OSP seem good in the eyes of Ghanaians due to the negative exposure it has received in recent months.
He stated that the OSP’s statement was also intended to redirect Ghanaians’ attention away from an article he (Amidu) published regarding the office blackmailing the government.
“The Special Prosecutor published and circulated widely an alleged joint statement made by the Judicial Service and the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) dated 27 December 2023. The alleged joint statement on a stationery bearing the National Coat of Arms and the Logo of the OSP is unusual in the issuance of joint statements by public institutions unless it is the work of a momentary and ingenious IT creation to achieve a particular media and psychological operational effect. An examination of the stationery used clearly indicates that it was issued by the OSP in the name of the Judicial Service.
“The alleged joint statement was published by myjoyonline.com after it had published my article on its website… Myjoyonline.com removed my article entirely from its website when it published the alleged joint statement. The result was that my article cannot be accessed on myjoyonline.com. I accordingly emailed a request to myjoyonline.com for an explanation for which I am still waiting. The psychological operational effect on the unsuspecting public after my deleted article by myjoyonline.com and the publication of the OSP’s alleged joint statement was, at least, achieved by myjoyonline.com for the OSP,” he wrote.
Amidu, a former Minister of Justice and Attorney General, made these statements in response to criticism of the judiciary following the release of the joint statement.
He advised Ghanaians to desist from criticizing the judiciary until it responded to the joint statement.
“I have visited the website of the Judicial Service and the alleged Joint Statement is not on that website. The Judicial Service is on its Michaelmas vacation which makes the 27 December 2023 publication by the OSP in the name of the Judicial Service suspicious to patriotic citizens.
“It is premature to make any assumptions against the Judicial Service in the publication of the Joint Statement by the OSP allegedly on behalf of the Judicial Service without knowing the context under which the statement was issued by the beleaguered OSP which has perennially scandalized the administration of justice under the 1992 Constitution,” he said.