The former Attorney General popularly known as ‘Citizen Vigilante,’ Martin Amidu has challenged investigative journalist, Anas Aremeyaw Anas to make public, the full and unedited video of the judicial corruption scandal.<\/p>\n
According to Mr. Amidu, Anas edited the video to shield other corrupt judges who according to him, are still at post.<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”aPkmCOy329nHEBvLmHYAaSoNXaCpddVx”]\u201cEven as I write there is evidence that some judges who were also offered and accepted bribes by the commissioned undercover investigators are still working as judicial officers because the investigators have not yet submitted any petition to the President due to hitches with the video recordings but have notified the Chief Justice and the Judicial Council of these facts,\u201d Amidu said in a statement.<\/p>\n
Anas and his Tigereye PI team had petitioned the Chief Justice to sanction some 34 judges and over 100 judicial officials in his recent expos\u00e9 .<\/p>\n
The Chief Justice subsequently suspended the judges and set up committees to investigate them.<\/p>\n
Mr. Amidu argued that releasing the unedited video would disabuse the impression of selective justice being created in the minds of the public.<\/p>\n
The Citizen Vigilante said he expects that \u201cthe petitioners will act accountably and transparently by making these facts public and pursue complaints against the affected persons to avoid the appearance of picking and choosing who to expose.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI also think the undercover investigators have to be held accountable by being compelled to submit for public scrutiny all the unedited video recordings including those for the so called judges who allegedly refused to accept bribes and threatened to report the investigators to the police,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
Mr. Amidu\u00a0further questioned how the scandal is being handled.<\/p>\n
\u201cHow sure are we that through the investigator\u2019s selective method of reporting their edited findings some of the officers implicated are not being dishonestly protected from exposure by the anti-corruptionpreneurs? Come to think of it, Ghanaians and the culprits are as a matter of right entitled to view the whole unedited video tapes and not edited copies that gives the Government and its covert agents the power to control our perceptions and judgment in the government\u2019s unconstitutional Orwellian Big Brother enterprise.\u201d<\/p>\n
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By: Godwin A. Allotey\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n