Martin Amidu the Ghanaian former Special Prosecutor has rubbished the claim of ever being in charge of prosecuting Members of Parliament who were allegedly involved in taken double salaries. “Attorney General’s Politically Inspired Propaganda To Tarnish Amidu’s Integrity On MPs Double Salary” According to Mr Amidu, the Office of the Attorney General never transferred the docket to his office for prosecution for him to have failed or refused to prosecute same before his resignation. Mr Amidu said this in a statement to react to claims on Accra-based Oman FM and a publication by the Daily Guide Network to the effect that he was in charge of prosecuting the lawmakers found culpable of taking double salaries but did not do so before leaving office. Mr Amidu described the allegation as “a politically-inspired propaganda against my integrity, which sought to link my resignation to the failure or refusal of this irredeemably corrupt government for four whole years to deal with the simple offence of double salary or stealing (as the Criminal Investigations Department of the Police Service put it), are false, infantile and barefaced lies intentionally concocted and put out by the Office of the Attorney General to the unsuspecting public under the sub-heading ‘Godfred Yeboah-Dame’”. “The effigy of the Attorney General published alongside the concocted falsehoods of me resigning without prosecuting a case which was never handled by my office during my tenure as the Special Prosecutor demonstrates how shamefully low the hitherto respected ethical Office of the Attorney General, which I had the privilege of serving in for over fourteen years of my career, has descended into since 7th January 2021,” he added. According to Mr Amidu, throughout his tenure as the Special Prosecutor, “the respected former Attorney General, Ms Gloria Akuffo, never referred this case to me for further investigation or prosecution. Any experienced and ethical person who has ever occupied the office of Deputy Minister of Justice under the Constitution knows that the Attorney General never sends a docket to another independent investigatory or prosecutorial agency without a covering letter forwarding the docket with requisite instructions or requests.” Read Mr Amidu’s full statement below: THE MPs DOUBLE SALARY CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION DOCKET WAS HANDLED BY THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL AND NEVER BY MARTIN AMIDU AS SPECIAL PROSECUTOR: BY MARTIN A. B. K. AMIDU Introduction On 17th May 2021, a friend called my attention to the fact that he had heard a radio discussion on Oman FM in which I was being blamed for the Government’s inability to prosecute the Members of Parliaments’ double salary case which the Office of the Attorney General had allegedly transferred to my office for prosecution, and I had failed or refused to prosecute same before my resignation. This was certainly a deliberate and knowing concoction of fake news from the newly minted Office of the Attorney General to assassinate my integrity and character.   My researches led me to the Daily Guide Network report in its publication of 10th May 2021 under the heading: “MPs Double Salary Bounces Back” in which it attributed the inability of the Attorney-General’s Office to prosecute the suspects in the case that has come to be known as the Members of Parliament Double Salary Scandal to the infantile and banal fact that: “the Office of the Special Prosecutor which was headed by former Attorney General Martin A.B.K. Amidu, took over the case to do the prosecution but the process was not completed until he resigned late last year.” Attorney General’s Politically Inspired Propaganda To Tarnish Amidu’s Integrity On MPs Double Salary The politically inspired propaganda against my integrity which sought to link my resignation to the failure or refusal of this irredeemably corrupt Government for four whole years to deal with the simple offence of double salary or stealing (as the Criminal Investigations Department of the Police Service put it), are false, infantile and barefaced lies intentionally concocted and put out by the Office of the Attorney-General to the unsuspecting public under the sub-heading “Godfred Yeboah-Dame.” The effigy of the Attorney-General published alongside the concocted falsehoods of me resigning without prosecuting a case which was never handled by my office during my tenure as the Special Prosecutor demonstrates how shamefully low the hitherto respected ethical Office of the Attorney-General which I had the privilege of serving in for over fourteen years of my career has descended into since 7th January 2021. Throughout my tenure as the Special Prosecutor, the respected former Attorney General, Ms Gloria Akuffo, never referred this case to me for further investigation or prosecution. Any experienced and ethical person who has ever occupied the office of Deputy Minister of Justice under the Constitution knows that the Attorney General never sends a docket to another independent investigatory or prosecutorial agency without a covering letter forwarding the docket with requisite instructions or requests. Mr Godfred Yeboah Dame, the young and inexperienced Attorney General, should know now that he is the Attorney General that there are no records in his office or the Director of Public Prosecution’s office showing that the Attorney General, Ms Gloria Akuffo, old enough to be Mr Dame’s mother, sent any docket on this case to me as Special Prosecutor to prosecute. No such letter was ever received by me when I was the Special Prosecutor, and no records exist in the Office of the Special Prosecutor of receipt of such a letter or docket from Ms Gloria Akuffo. Mr Godfred Yeboah Dame, under whose name the Daily Guide Network reports and attributes the infantile lies that: ‘The Office of the Special Prosecutor, which was headed by former Attorney General Martin A.B.K. Amidu, took over the case to do the prosecution but the process was not completed until he resigned late last year’, ought to have developed the capability of asking the Director of Public Prosecutions as to the status of the case instead of linking to my resignation to a matter which never came under my watch just to assassinate my character. President Akufo-Addo Determines