President Mahama’s special adviser on governance and corruption, Daniel Batidam has denied claims the presidency is shielding some corrupt Members of Parliament implicated in another exposé by journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas.
Amidu in a statement released on Monday alleged that the President had suppressed information regarding the corrupt Parliamentarians and turned the displeasure of public anger away from political corruption.
[contextly_sidebar id=”h6GPn2UUFzjKjbJ5prSkZ8o2IPaeIn0M”]“John Dramani Mahama, has chosen to use the results selectively and to suppress other results, particularly the parliamentary one whose video is ready, available to the Government and has with its permission been viewed secretly by the leadership of one branch of Government which is pleased to participate in the criminal conspiracy and unconstitutional conduct of suppressing it from the public to protect its image. I refuse to condone such conduct and write in exercise of my right to freedom of speech and to defend the Constitution under Article 3 thereof.
“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,” Amidu noted in his statement.
But responding to these allegations, Batidam clarified that “government has no hand and the President has not attempted to suppress information in relation to the fight against corruption.”
He stated that on the contrary, the President had been at the forefront of the fight against corruption.
“I don’t think it is worth our time debating about accusations of suppressing information especially in relation to the fight against corruption. I don’t think that this is something that we should be discussing,” he added.
He further indicated that government is taking measures to coordinate the activities of various investigative institutions and law enforcement agencies to make them more effective.
“I want to state that the government is doing a lot by getting investigative institutions and law enforcement institutions to work together in a better way to coordinate their activities in order to ensure that their investigations are more effective and will lead to the constitution all of us will like to have.”
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By: Marian Ansah/citifmonline.com/Ghana
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