{"id":403981,"date":"2018-02-24T08:05:56","date_gmt":"2018-02-24T08:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=403981"},"modified":"2018-02-24T18:23:41","modified_gmt":"2018-02-24T18:23:41","slug":"give-nana-addo-credit-ndc-only-demonised-amidu-rawlings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2018\/02\/give-nana-addo-credit-ndc-only-demonised-amidu-rawlings\/","title":{"rendered":"Give Nana Addo credit, NDC only demonised Amidu – Rawlings"},"content":{"rendered":"
Former President John Rawlings has lauded the New Patriotic Party government for leveraging Martin Amidu\u2019s drive to fight corruption by appointing him as Ghana\u2019s Special Prosecutor.<\/p>\n
Mr. Rawlings said this was in contrast\u00a0to\u00a0Mr. Amidu\u2019s own National Democratic Congress which only demonized the man nicknamed the citizen vigilante.<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”GHBm7mmRYr2jAc8etrz8SaXeLHcmq3Bf”]The former President was speaking to journalists at the State House during the final funeral rites of the late mathematician Professor Francis Allotey, just before Mr. Amidu was sworn in<\/a><\/strong><\/span> on Friday.<\/p>\n \u201cTo think we could have utilized somebody like Martin Amidu many years ago; from Professor Mills to our friend John Mahama, instead, we avoided him. We monsterized\u00a0him the way we do with people like me or my wife.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201c\u2026And then it takes somebody, Nana Akufo-Addo, from a party completely opposed to us to come and appoint him not as a minister of state but as the chief prosecutor. We ought to give him credit,\u201d Mr. Rawlings said.<\/p>\n Mr. Rawlings had already praised the\u00a0nomination of Martin Amidu<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0as the Special Prosecutor saying President Nana Akufo-Addo had risen above partisanship and recognized a highly principled citizen.<\/p>\n He remains confident that Mr. Amidu “is going to help us restore integrity back into governance.\u201d<\/p>\n