Mr. Fuseini insisted on Eyewitness News that the though the Minority was in support of the appointment of Mr. Amidu, Dr. Ayine was entitled to defend the provisions of the constitution on his own.

[contextly_sidebar id=”dWyqNAAxza7hOJJ1ZzLOeThBfGOONT78″]Dr. Ayine, a former Deputy Attorney-General, unsuccessfully tried to get the Speaker of Parliament to defer the approval of Mr. Amidu on Tuesday, until the Supreme Court rules on his lawsuit, in line with Parliament’s Standing Orders 93(1).

“If he sees a breach of the Constitution, Dominic Ayine has a civic duty to challenge it,” the Tamale Central MP stated.

“We [the Minority] are very lucid in our thinking. We know exactly the position of the law. We have said that we support Martin Amidu. We will support him and we have passed him. We didn’t vote against him. But we are saying we will also uphold the laws of the Republic of this country and we will not condone illegalities,” Mr. Fussein explained further.

“The rule of law is as important for the substantive law as it is for the procedure. So in all the motions and the steps you have to take, you can arrest the work of the Appointments Committee or the nomination of the President and that is what Dominic Ayine sought to do.”

‘Too old’

Dr. Ayine’s suit at the Supreme Court contends that Mr. Amidu, being 66 years of age, is too old to hold public office as Special Prosecutor per what the constitution says.

He is seeking a declaration that Mr. Amidu is not qualified or eligible to be nominated as the Special Prosecutor.

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Diplomatic ties notwithstanding, Alhaji Fuseini said the whole presentation should be viewed as an embarrassment to the country.

[contextly_sidebar id=”U5sJYqIQLKUqP2A9kmlhrY2lxhKqdcoL”]Speaking to Citi News’ Duke Mensah Opoku, the Tamale Central MP said, “I was not even looking at diplomatic niceties. It was an embarrassment. In fact, I was ridiculed. Why would any ambassador give GHc 10,000? What is GHc 10,000 to a whole institution of State.”

The Chinese Ambassador to Ghana on Tuesday presented this GHc 10,000 donation and some office equipment to the Attorney General’s office, to support the organisation of a stakeholders’ consultative workshop, on the Office of the Special Prosecutor Bill, 2017.

Influence on galamsey fight

The donation was however met with some concerns from the public, and some civil society groups which highlighted the delicate dynamic between the two nations given the widespread involvement of Chinese nationals in the devastating illegal mining.

This followed a similar donation to the police service by the Ghana Association of Chinese Societies, raising concerns and suspicions from the public.

Alhaji Fuseini, a former Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, has previously spoken of the pressure Chinese officials in Ghana put on him when he tried to fight against illegal mining in 2014.

He revealed that the former Chinese Ambassador to Ghana, tried different methods to get him to ease up on the fight against illegal miners within the small-scale mining sector.

What happened to Ghana beyond aid?

Aside from this, Alhaji Fuseini said accepting such donations was at odds with President Nana Akufo-Addo’s vision of a Ghana beyond aid.

He said this donation basically meant the Chinese considered Ghana “as poor as church mice.”

“Nana Akufo-Addo has told us he is moving this country beyond aid, and then a Chinese Ambassador comes to give you GHc 10,000 – they should not have accepted it. What can GHc 10,000 do? It is even an insult to us as Ghanaians.”

“How poor are we that we accept GHc 10,000, desktop computers and UPSs from China? It ridiculed and embarrassed me that an ambassador, in giving Ghana aid gives us GHc 10,000, and we are applauding and taking pictures and showing pictures on social media. We have moved beyond that,” the MP fumed.

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