The Sole Commission established to investigate the payment of Judgement debts in the country has rejected allegations made in a newspaper claiming that \u00a0the former Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, \u00a0Martin A.B.K. Amidu lied to the Commission when he appeared before it.<\/p>\n
According to the Commission in a press release, the newpaper, \u2018True Spokesman\u2019 reported that \u201cMr Martin Amidu petitioned this Commission with information heavily loaded with falsities and blatant gargantuan lies.\u201d<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”80MRia3oghFPJkBPkvY0VGKnIcWxGopq”]\u201cThis Commission does not know how and where the paper gathered this false information,\u201d the release said.<\/p>\n
Below is the full statement from the Commission and signed by Counsel for Commission, \u00a0Dometi Kofi Sorkpor.<\/p>\n
PRESS RELEASE<\/strong> This Commission makes particular mention of two publications it has sighted in a paper called The True Spokesman in its Friday October 10, 2014 and Friday October 17, 2014 issues.<\/p>\n The two publications were given front-page banner headlines. The first was as follows:- The second publication also had the following headline: – \u201cMARTIN AMIDU GOES INTO HIDING after gargantuan lies were exposed\u201d.<\/p>\n The publications purported to portray that Mr.Martin Amidu petitioned this Commission with information heavily loaded with falsities and blatant gargantuan lies.<\/p>\n This Commission does not know how and where the paper gathered this false information. The Commission wants to state emphatically that it was not Mr. Martin Amidu who brought to the notice or attention of the Commission, the judgment entered in favour of Gbewaa Civil Engineering Co. & Yakubu Adam Kasule as a result of a purported \u2018Terms of Settlement\u2019 reached between Mr. Kasule and another former Attorney-General Mrs. Betty Mould Iddrisu.<\/p>\n The issue of the judgment entered in favour of Kasule based on the said \u2018Terms of Settlement\u2019 was one of the Judgment Debt cases brought to the attention of the Commission by the Attorney-General\u2019s Department when the Commission requested for records on all Judgment Debts entered against the state from 1992 to date on the inception of the Commission.<\/p>\n The Commission noticed that the two former Attorney-Genaral\u2019s namely; Mrs. Betty Mould Iddrisu and Mr. Martin Amidu had signed certain documents concerning the matter; including even some State Attorneys at the Attorney-General\u2019s office.<\/p>\n In line with the Commissions mandate, the Commission invited the two former Attorney-General\u2019s and other State Attorney\u2019s who had something to do with the cases involving Gbewaa Civil Engineering & its Managing Director Adam Kasule to provide answers to some questionnaire sent to them.<\/p>\n The Acting Solicitor-General was also invited to brief the Commission on the matter. The fact that Mr. Martin Amidu and Mrs. Betty Mould Iddrisu were not invited to publicly face the cameras does not mean that the issue has been swept under the carpet. The fact also that the Judgment entered in favour of Mr. Kasule & his Company is that of a Court of competent jurisdiction does not mean that it automatically falls outside the mandate of the Commission.<\/p>\n The Commission is looking into all Judgment Debts and Akin Matters from 1992 to date. The Judgment in favour of Mr. Kasule is therefore one of such cases and this Commission shall issue a report on it.<\/p>\n The Commission also wants to state that it is not in all the cases that witnesses were made to appear publicly before the Commission. Where the documents before the Commission were clear and unambiguous, the Commission did not invite anybody to appear publicly to explain.<\/p>\n This happened in several of the cases considered by this Commission including the Woyome case, which this Commission is going to report on.<\/p>\n The media is advised to ensure that it does not use this Commission as a \u2018conduit\u2019 to advance the personal interests of anybody. The True spokesman could have verified the information it obtained on the Kasule case from the Commission if it did not have any agenda against anybody.<\/p>\n The paper should note that what it is doing constitutes contempt of this Commission. It should therefore bring to halt these false publications. Issued by the Commission this 19th day of November, 2014.<\/p>\n Signed by Counsel for Commission<\/p>\n Mr. Dometi Kofi Sorkpor [For and on behalf of the Sole-Commissioner]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Sole Commission established to investigate the payment of Judgement debts in the country has rejected allegations made in a newspaper claiming that \u00a0the former Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, \u00a0Martin A.B.K. Amidu lied to the Commission when he appeared before it. 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\nThe Commission has noted with great concern and trepidation attempts by a section of the press to damage the reputation of the former Attorney-General & Minister of Justice Hon. Mr. Martin A.B.K. Amidu using this Commission as a conduit, albeit falsely.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cMARTIN AMIDU\u2019S GARGANTUAN LIES EXPOSED (2) why Internal Memo leaked should have nailed former Attorney-General for perjury \u2013 Public Angry at \u2018Citizen Vigilante\u2019 for peddling Judgment Debt lies\u201d<\/p>\n
\nOn the other hand, if the paper has an Agenda it wants to advance, it should not draw this Commission into it to avoid the unpalatable.<\/p>\n