{"id":270213,"date":"2016-11-21T06:00:21","date_gmt":"2016-11-21T06:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=270213"},"modified":"2016-11-21T06:00:21","modified_gmt":"2016-11-21T06:00:21","slug":"ayine-showed-his-incompetence-by-criticising-me-in-media-amidu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/11\/ayine-showed-his-incompetence-by-criticising-me-in-media-amidu\/","title":{"rendered":"Ayine showed his incompetence by criticising me in media – Amidu"},"content":{"rendered":"
A former Attorney General (AG) and anti-corruption campaigner, Martin Amidu, has lashed out at the current Deputy AG Dominic Ayine questioning his legal competence and knowledge of the law.<\/p>\n
Unethical, inexperienced and scandalous were some of the words Mr. Amidu used to describe Mr. Ayine following the Deputy AG\u2019s calling him a \u201cliar and a perjurer in the media\u201d.<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”lEuXRDfJp77zvLsX9Tle7U3yXv0PEVeZ”]Mr. Ayine had alleged that Mr. Amidu had lied under oath as he questioned the former AG’s credibility as far as his attempts to retrieve the GHc 51 million judgement debt from embattled business man, Alfred Woyome, is concerned.<\/p>\n
But Mr. Amidu, in his latest article on the raging GHc 51 million judgement debt saga, said, \u201csurely, as one who is properly trained and\u00a0who has\u00a0practiced under competent seniors since his call to the Bar,\u00a0he would\u00a0have\u00a0known\u00a0that\u00a0as\u00a0an officer of the Court it is unethical to resort to the press to criticize a Court decision one has\u00a0argued and\u00a0lost.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mr. Amidu also slammed Mr. Ayine as a loose cannon who has failed to learn any lessons since taking up the post as Deputy AG.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe ethical practice is to go on an appeal or apply for a review of the decision should those options be open, or to shut up. It is scandalous and a bad example for a Deputy Minister of Justice who has also sworn to uphold the Constitution to take a cue from his President and castigate the Court and its decision, including the beneficiary of the decision,\u201d Mr. Amidu pointed out.<\/p>\n
\u201cSince when did it become the ethical practice of any responsible and respected lawyer committed to the rule of law, independence of the judiciary, the independence of the legal profession, constitutionalism and democracy to resort to the print and electronic media as the medium of arguing an appeal or review of the decision of a Court of law he has lost?\u201d<\/p>\n
Mr. Amidu also noted that Mr. Ayine failed to back his claims in the court of law as he had the opportunity to apply to cross-examine him in the court of law.<\/p>\n
“Ayine called me a liar and a perjurer in the media. He gets all the opportunity if he were a seasoned lawyer to prove it in Court. He failed even to apply orally to the Court to cross-examine me, and to put me to strict proof as stated in their own affidavit. His action was due either to inexperience or incompetence as a practicing lawyer.”<\/p>\n