Anti-corruption campaigner, Martin Amidu has revealed that the then John Mills’ government commissioned investigative journalist, Anas Aremeyaw Anas’ investigative piece in 2009 to expose alleged corruption in the judiciary.
Martin Amidu said the investigation was inspired following demands for proof over allegations of corruption leveled against the judiciary.
“…The undercover investigation that led to the judicial corruption exposé was commissioned by the Government of Ghana and has its genesis in the acrimonious relationship between the Government and the Judiciary on the assumption of power in 2009 by the Government and the constant demand by the Judiciary for proof of judicial corruption from Government and its associates,” he added.
Martin Amidu further accused the Mahama-led government of suppressing parts of the investigation that indicts some corrupt politicians in the country.
“The Government ought to be congratulated for its ingenuity in being able to suppress parts of the truth and to turn the displeasure of public anger away from political corruption to only judicial corruption and to take all the credit. The ingenuity, however, becomes farcical when the Attorney General grants immunity and protection to entrepreneurial Government Commissioned undercover agents who collaborate with established security agencies as independent whistleblowers under the Whistleblowers Act, 2006 (Act 720) and contrary to the prohibition of the Police Service (Private Security Organizations) Regulations, 1992 (L.I. 1571),” he added.
Gov’t didn’t sponsor us
Meanwhile, Anas’ Boss and Managing Editor of the New Crusading Guide Newspaper, Abdul Malik Kweku Baako has denied the claims by Martin Amidu saying government didn’t sponsor the investigation.
“Martin Amidu is wrong! Government did not commission Anas’ investigations into Judicial Corruption! Fact! If Martin has contrary evidence, let him simply provide it,” he posted on Facebook.
He argued that “how would a serious investigative body release details of an investigation that is incomplete?”
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By: Godwin A. Allotey/citifmonline.com/Ghana