Akufo-Addo accepts Kissi Agyebeng’s nomination as Special Prosecutor despite Martin Amidu’s warning

Akufo-Addo accepts Kissi Agyebeng’s nomination as Special Prosecutor despite Martin Amidu’s warning

- Martin Amidu has expressed grave worry with the nomination of Kissi Agyebeng as the next Special Prosecutor

- According to him, the nominee is deeply linked with the people behind the controversial Agyapa Royalties deal

- He flagged the deal as a conduit for perpetrating corruption

- But the president accepted the nomination

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President Akufo-Addo has accepted the nomination of Kissi Agyebeng as Ghana’s next Special Prosecutor, YEN.com.gh can report.

Akufo-Addo accepts Kissi Agyebeng’s nomination as Special Prosecutor despite Martin Amidu’s warning
Akufo-Addo accepts Kissi Agyebeng’s nomination as Special Prosecutor despite Martin Amidu’s warning
Source: UGC

This comes after the former special prosecutor, Martin Amidu, launched a scathing attack on Agyebeng for being nominated for the office of the special prosecutor.

Amidu, who resigned as the country’s first Special Prosecutor in the runup to the crucial 2020 general elections over “political interference” warned in his latest epistles that Ghanaians must be worried over the nomination of Agyebeng.

In a statement on Thursday, May 6, 2021, the Director of Communications at the Presidency, Eugene Arhin, said a letter has been sent to the Speaker of Parliament to that effect to seek parliamentary approval in accordance with the law.

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“To this end, the Attorney General, Mr. Godfred Yeboah Dame, on 16th April 2021, nominated Mr. Kissi Agyebeng, under section 13 (3) of Act 959, to the President for consideration as the second occupant of the Office of the Special Prosecutor,” the statement said.

In other news on YEN.com.gh, Justice Gertrude Torkornoo, a member of the seven-member panel that sat on the 2020 election petition, said the Supreme Court expected the petitioner to provide pink sheets supporting his allegations of electoral irregularities and lack of a clear winner in the presidential poll.

Former President John Dramani Mahama, the flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) petitioned the apex court after rejecting the outcome of the presidential polls.

He argued in his petition that the December 9 declaration by the chairperson of the Electoral Commission, Jean Mensa, that President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo won the presidential election was flawed.

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According to him, there was no winner in the election, and that the Supreme Court should set aside the EC chairperson’s declaration and order for a rerun between him and the president.

The Apex Court, however, dismissed the petition, stating that it cannot order a rerun of the 2020 presidential polls.

The panel held that the former president failed to adduce “cogent evidence” to back his claims that there was no winner in the December 7, 2020, presidential elections.

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