Friday, June 14, 2013, has become very synonymous with the vindication of Mr. Martin A.B.K. Amidu, the lone ranger, firebrand spokesman and Ghanaian hero of the millennium for the silent and the truthful masses. And one may dare ask; why has Martin Amidu suddenly become a hero? The answer is quite simple. He wants the truth to prevail and reign supreme. Honesty has become his hallmark and continues to be his bread and butter always. Dishonesty and greed cannot be found anywhere in his vocabulary unlike his other comrades still in the jungle. Well, the 9-member panel of Supreme Court judges gorgeously sitting in state on Friday, June 14, this year, gave a unanimous ruling of 9-0 verdict in favour of the celebrated ?Martin Amidu versus Messrs Waterville Company Limited. However, the SC, presided over by Justice Dotse, in their God-given wisdom, ruled in favour of the Plaintiff, Martin Amidu the celebrity as the victor in a case that the Defendants, Messrs Waterville, had never ever done any work for the State, but had cunningly managed, due to greed, avarice and dishonesty and with the connivance of some imbecile members of the government , outwitted the State (by false pretences and fictitious documentary proof) to circumvent to secure large sums of hard earned foreign money. This has in effect, deprived the poor masses of Ghana money that could, otherwise, have buttered their bread and lives somehow. And before the ruling was read in the full glare of the public, the presiding judge, His Lordship Justice Dotse, courageously mentioned to the hearing of the whole world that it was very sad that some persons in government had indeed, condoned and connived with foreigners to ?first, create, loot and share the dishonest booty at the expense and peril of the ordinary Ghanaian in the street while tens of thousands of sick persons cannot have good access to, or have decent medical facility or decent health care delivery system. Personally, such persons who aided and abetted foreigners to commit such heinous crimes against the State i.e. Nation Ghana, should be considered as traitors and enemies of the State and must, summarily on conviction, be jailed to serve as a deterrent to nib in the bud, those who would, otherwise, have harboured such wicked and diabolical intentions to dupe/defraud Ghana.
EM BATTLED
The author will like readers to be abreast with some startling revelations. The embattled Mr. Tony Lithur, now the lead counsel for the President of the Republic in the ongoing Election Petition Hearing by the Supreme Court, is said to be the same legal/illegal brain behind the legal battle that was fought by him and his team of counsel by false pretences to win a dishonest case for Waterville for them to take home some 40m euros. How much did the ?I have in my hand? legal brain Tony Lithur, grab as his legal fees against the people of this country? The same legal brain is the lead counsel for the president. According to the presiding judge, Justice Dotse, the General Legal Council, without prejudice, should severely punish the said culprits inclusive of the ?Dr. Bawumia, I have in my custody, this document. Would you explain the merits and demerits of the document which you have just received from me and its effect on the just ended election? Again, the national legal body should sensure that their law practicing licences were withdrawn/seized or black-listed immediately from their register of active members forthwith. But the million dollar question is: How soon does the Legal Council take the necessary and imperative steps to initiate such proceedings against their colleagues to bar them and ostracize the others yet unknown completely from participating in the ongoing legal tussle between the Petitioners versus the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Respondents? These people, respectively, represent the president, the Electoral Commission and the NDC. Furthermore, the author would like to remind the General Legal Council that the ?out-of-sight, out of mind? Betty Mould-Iddrisu (Mrs.) should also be mauled and drawn into the net so that students of the law faculty would in future be circumspect and not be blindfolded into doing crimes against Mother Ghana. Incidentally, such a person, above named, should not be allowed to go scot-free for the fact that she was once the Attorney-General and Minister of Justice. However, it is the humble plea of this writer that His Lordship Justice William Atuguba, presiding judge in the ongoing case, takes inspiration and a cue from the ruling of colleague Justice Dotse?s verdict in a case involving Waterville and the Republic, to, as it were, without fear or favour, stamp his authority there and then to perpetually oust the embattled lawyer from appearing in court for the president to earn his (Willie?s) credibility. Failing to do that could, probably, from a layman?s point of view, help this ?infamous? lawyer have extended wings of arrogance in Ghana taking cognizance of the awkward and unprecedented way and manner he flouted the court?s authority. Already, he is 9-months pregnant with pride. He arrogantly denigrated the prestige and respect of the SC to the dogs to flap some documents on another lawyer in the full glare of the Supreme Court and more so, the international community and observers present about a month ago. The way the court treated him with kid gloves without punitive measure(s) or written caution, would go a long way to tell a different story about the laxity in our judicial system.
PROMOTION
To the chagrin and amazement of most Ghanaians, the once involved Nerquaye Tetteh, whose wife it is alleged, had some Gh?400,000.00 stashed in her bank account by Alfred Agbesi Woyome as a result of the supposed ignominious part played by him in the Woyomegate Scandal, has been surreptitiously promoted to become the Acting Solicitor-General at the A-G?s Office. Not only that but also, nocturnal skirmishes were put in place to ensure the darling boy, Ebo Barton Odro, whose late father happened to be a senior in service at the Castle with the author?s relation has been unanimously elected as the 1st Deputy Speaker. Again, having been embroiled in this sordid criminality, Ghanaians still rate him like a twinkle, twinkle, little star high above world in the skies and an incumbent MP for a Cape Coast constituency. The series could go on and on and on unending. It is also being rumoured that the young and affable deputy minister of Information was once hauled into Nigerian prison custody (true or false?) But because the purported offence was not committed here in Ghana, the Nigerian laws could not be applicable for him to lose the juicy ministerial appointment. And he and others are the current chatterboxes doing the dirty work or damage repair of all kinds for the government. If the source is false, then, this piece about the junior minister should also be regarded as falsehood with unjustified apologies to him for the unpalatable, derogatory and uncomplimentary remarks. Wonders, they say, will never end and truly will not end in Ghana as long as the Sun continues to rise from the east and sets in the west. ?For heaven?s sake, are there no younger police officers other than the John Kudalors, the Yakubus, and the others who officially appear over-aged (60+ years) on the television screens to be phased off to be replaced with fresh limbs or those servicemen still under 60 years be promoted instead of this entangled man who, probably washes the face upwards and does not command any respect anywhere in the international circles anymore? ??Mo ka koraa a, na me ye no more?, to wit, the more you, emphasis on Ghanaians; ??lazy and idle? people congregate under trees to play drafts/ludo and gossip about my presidency, the more stubborn cat I always become.
STIFF OPPOSITION
The NDC has been squarely matched in a very titanic duel. Little did they think that their arch-rivals, the NPP, would take things lightly this time and avoid going to the law courts with the election petition in the just ended election of 2012. The election ended up with problems and by false and fraudulent means. Now that the going has really become tough with their antiques, they have resorted to trying to muddy the waters with the police connivance and intimidation of all sorts to couch the opposition. Whenever their serial callers of all shades say anything criminal, it is hardly noticed or heard by the tipsy-topsy police but if the tables turn towards the NPP, then the kotis? sense of hearing becomes activated to call the bluff and one wonders whether there two sets of law for the country. How many times have the Kakra Essamuahs, the Gabby Assumings, the Solomon Nkansahs and the likes not made criminally insinuating statements that are very detrimental and incriminating to warrant immediate arrest by the police for interrogation on grounds of genocide, treasonable felony, coup d?etat et cetera? But such uncouth, unmeritorious statements have gone on unpunished like the Anita de Sosou?s; to the effect that the courts are just busying themselves about nothing there because the aftermath will get to nowhere because, once someone has been sworn-in as president, it is impossible to unseat that person, forgetting the constitutional mandate, but Sammy Awuku?s careless but uncomplimentary comments were quickly heard from afar. As far as posterity will come to learn of the era of the decade that Ghana decayed to the extremes, the much better it would be for the historians not to worry their heads.
ADMONITION
The Mohammed Alhassan police should be neutral and circumspect in their professional career as internationally acceptable police officers these days otherwise, their positive entrenched stance might or could eventually at one point or another, open the floodgates to an inevitable anarchy or instability if care is not taken to halt same. They have tried dubious means to usurp the fundamental right of the Ghanaian to prevent their freedom of association and movement under the guise of bla, bla, bla, etc. ?Did his Administration hear the useless talk by one Gabby Assuming on an Accra FM radio station recently that if the SC gave a ruling in favour of Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo, he personally would support a civil war to begin? Not only that, earlier on, Kakra Essamuah, a lawyer by profession and an embattled person who was once defeated in a contest for the NPP General Secretary position sometime ago, now wines and dines with the NDC and has decided to please his new wedlock as a defectee in whatever form for a living. He does not care a hoot but to stoop so low to go about saying that if the same case was won by the NPP, he also, personally would support a coup d?etat by any group of persons to topple the NPP government thereafter. In fact, these and many more are very incriminating sentiments that ought not to be glossed over the carpet but the police look on unconcerned as if they were the Egyptian mummies of old. Huh! ?Incredible!
SERIOUS PROBLEM
As regards the foregoing comments, what kind of treacherous and treasonable offences are weightier than these? How would the western world regard the Ghana police especially with the seriousness as a nation? Some members assist some crooks/infidels to dupe the nation and are still made parliamentary select committee members to investigate the impropriety of payments of judgment debts. Are we sane at all as a people with one destiny? Do we as a nation have conscience at all? How do members of government feel whenever they attend international conferences with other nationals? Happy or unhappy? ?The author has countless number of times and on several occasions, hinted that most of the current crop of members of government, including some handful of honourable members of Parliament, have disgraced themselves to the extent that they probably wash their faces upwards otherwise, that shouldn?t happen. I am afraid, but this could be a fact because, judging from their pronouncements and utterances, one has no option but to arrive at this conclusion. After a critical and classical analysis, courtesy, Dr. Afari Djan; obviously, the final conclusion is that most people in Ghana today, wash their faces upwards. No doubt about that. On the other hand, nobody should take it serious if he has gone too far but be pardoned or exonerated as he did not mean any harm to be swiftly charged for intentional defamation. This should not be taken up for contempt of the august House. From the look of things, however, this assertion, could, in a way, be justified in this particular context. The Veep who was then the Governor of the Central Bank was nominated for the running mate to probably escape from prosecution if the several judgments were tried by the courts one day as we witness now. Are we really serious to continue to tolerate these humiliations from the international community with the Barton Odros still at the helm of affairs as the 1st Deputy Speaker? ?Someone who emphatically said the State does not have any case to contest in the courts with the Woyomes, the Watervilles, the CPs, the Isofotons etc. but these within-named plaintiffs have lately been found out to be fraudsters by the courts to repay the ill-gotten/stolen monies to the State. He Ebo Barton Odro, Betty Mould-Iddrisus and Nerquaye Tetteh ? whose wife, it is alleged, had some cache of lump sum of cedis stashed in her bank account offered shameful advice for pittance against Mother Ghana. And the same persons continue to enjoy their booty after helping to condone and connive with these expatriate nationals to create, loot and share the milk. It is just unfortunate that to date, no single person from any of the several civil society groups has come out to condemn that act of sabotage and whenever articles of this nature appear on the shelves, the author was either branded and heckled or regarded as ?lazy? drone by some spineless people who hide behind such crooks who have duped the nation because of the pittance or crumbs given them from under their dining tables. Moreover, the strange or exceptional behavioural instincts of some people illustrate the writer?s assertion in totality without fear or bias that truly, it is not far from wrong that they wash their faces upwards.
WHO BELLS THE CAT?
Is it Barton Odro, Betty Mould-Iddrisu, Nerquaye Tetteh, Dr. Kumbuor, Marietta Brew or the then Candidate JDM? ?When Dr. Duffuor was pushed to the wall to pay judgments under duress by Betty, was Mr. Kwesi Bekoe Amissah Arthur, the veep, not the Governor of the Bank of Ghana? How does he now feel as being an accomplice in the wrongful payment of the said judgments debts for Woyome, Waterville, CP, Isofoton, etc? Does he have sleepless nights or now feels ashamed for being privy to these shameful payments? How does he feel lately when business executives from foreign countries pay courtesy calls on him at his newly furnished office at the Jubilee House? Does he feel exonerated as an accomplice to those shady deals? Posterity awaits all of us as a nation and our individual parts played for the creation, looting and sharing of the country?s wealth. Which of the within-named personalities with two balls between his thighs would be bold to bell the cat like the celebrated Martin Amidu, who undertook the ?mission impossible? expedition to win his cases against the fraudsters? Mr. Martin Amidu has been able to set the pace to unearth these deals for public consumption and it is for us to shy away such crooks and deny their praises. As regards the foregoing, if the same adamant government, headed by the heavenly-ordained president, ?HE John Dramani Mahama, could flagrantly and arrogantly without regard to any human being on earth, continues to keep such ?political misfits and miscreants? as Nerquaye Tetteh Tetteh, who should have been fired, arraigned before the courts and Tony Lithur et cetera, who it is alleged, defended either Woyome or Waterville in their quest for the judgment debts supposedly owed them by the State and, who, by the Justice Dotse?s ruling should be blacklisted and/or have their practicing licences withdrawn/seized by the General Legal Council for their intended action and inordinate but ambitious involvement in the said case. Ironically, if the president has surrounded himself with such personalities for advice; who then, from the same Attorney-General?s Office and Ministry of Justice, could chest out or own up and stand up to be counted from amongst the crowd there to initiate steps for the said ?ill-gotten? monies the Woyomes, the Watervilles, the CPs, the African Automobiles, and what have you, have fraudulently stolen by false pretences and fictitious documents to defraud Ghana and Ghanaians? All said and done, Mr. Martin Amidu has done the yeoman?s job, but it is rather unfortunate that his honest labour to ensure that the proper thing was done in Ghana and also very compatible with natural justice was being met with vehemence and injustice and the little advice from the author is that his reward will be acknowledged in future when posterity comes to read the history of Ghana circa AD.2009-2013 during the reign of the late Prof. Evans Atta Mills and ?administrative error? president John Dramani Mahama (whose tenure was being contested in the SC because of alleged fraud, malpractices, administrative errors, and pink sheet ?irregularities that were glossed over and facilitated by STL and bosom friend, embattled Dr. Afari Djan to become president).
Postscript ? Incidentally, June 30 has come and gone. After sober reflection, I salute and doff my hat for the three departed high court judges- the late Cecilia Koranteng-Addow, Sarkodie, Agyepong and the army major, Sam Acquah. This trio has been immortalized as martyrs of Ghana with their names engraved in gold and recorded in the Guinness Book of Records for their brave, heroic honesty and judicial impartiality. And it is hoped that most Ghanaians will join me to commemorate the 31st anniversary celebration of the inhuman treatment that ended up with the abduction and cruel murder. The architects/perpetrators of their murder should never see peace on earth till the end of time. Finally, the SC judges in the ongoing Election Petition Hearing headed by His Lordship Justice William Atuguba, with special delegated powers from the CJ should be more prayerful than ever before with his colleagues to muster courage to give justice a chance. This will earn them reputation and well deserved credibility and dignity to administer justice without fear or favour to avert inflamed passions on the quiet to escalate into an inferno. They should also bear in mind that any of the dead could have been in their current position as SC judge if they had not been caught up in that trap and murdered dastardly.
THE HOUR
The hour has struck. Now is the hour for the SC. But in consonance with the continuation of this Mother of all Cases in Ghana, they should be very circumspect to pursue this particular case to its logical conclusion. However, few of the salient points the three Ghanaians contesting the case in court base their argument to win the favour of the learned jurists appear below.
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The first and probably the foremost is whether, indeed, there were malpractices, administrative errors, deliberate pink sheet falsification of figures etc., or not.
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That as a result of above, the final figures for the declaration of results could have any effect on the elections should also be examined critically.
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Another aspect of very high criminality and fraudulent intent was the means the incumbent was purported to have used its communication outlet to gag or disrupt the mouthpiece of the opposition strong telecommunication network is equally unacceptable anywhere in the civilized world. The Mahama-led government cannot dissociate itself from the complicity in the NCA?s technical department at the Labone Estates near the South Africa High Commission, whereby Oman FM/Net2 facilities were totally jammed by the paid misfits/miscreants there.
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The huge and arrogant display of monetary gifts to the electorates countrywide (fa woto begye Hyundai i10/i30) is also testamentary evidence of fraud and the government cannot defend itself of not using state money/resources or dishing its hands into the national kitty or purse. Mr. Kwabena Dufuor, did you hear that? Meanwhile, mind you, not until you are dead and gone, no sooner than later, you?d be called to answer for this crime/misdeed for your criminal intent and complicity against Mother Ghana in this electoral fraud, trust me.
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That as a result of all these enumerated fraudulent practices, the State must have lost colossal debts which Ghanaians yet unborn, and through no fault of theirs, must be called upon to pay to be able to live a decent life after this generation has phased off.
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It is also an unacceptable norm for the incumbent to openly condone and connive with the police and other security agencies to glaringly intimidate and harass political opponents, sometimes, to the extent of using crude methods to put certain key figures of the opponents behind bars just to teach them a lesson to put fear in their followers. This is a clear violation of civilized electoral practice and must be condemned in no uncertain terms. Those police officers who were drafted to be so involved in that kind of brutish and bestial actions should bow their heads in shame.
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That as a result of open admission by principal witnesses, Messrs Johnson Asiedu Nketiah and Kwadwo Afari Djan, in the SC when they emphatically said the elections were fraught with administrative errors, malpractices, irregularities, et cetera, et cetera, that could easily overturn the results when these duo were cross-examined by Philip Addison, counsel for the Petitioners. In the light of these and many more, the SC should not belabor at all to look for the reasons for their individual scripts to arrive at a consensus to give their verdict.
That in a nutshell, if all the foregoing facts should easily help to alter the results so be it. The SC should not be perturbed at all with the ?senseless? utterances from the NDC commentators. Such comments should not be tolerated but to ensure strict compliance with the constitutional requirement to go about their onerous duty ? to either declare a new winner, Mr. X and to ask Mr. Y to retire from being the ?administrative error?, hurriedly make-shift president, irregularities galore president to leave the seat of government forthwith. Ghanaians would not want to go for a second round elections since the available evidence and supporting pink sheet figures point to the fact that the president was hurriedly proclaimed winner of that election knowing that if the Electoral Commissioner arrogantly did that, Ghanaians, peaceful as we have been, would this time round, let the sleeping dogs lie and not be mindful of going to the courts to seek for redress in the interest of peace and time saving and other sentiments and humble pleas from Ghanaian and world opinion leaders. Martin, you have really done so well but virtually, there is nobody in NDC now who would be able to betray his own colleagues to bell the cat except the ?yenkyenni? syndrome that fascinates them.
HUMOUR
The author?s casual visit to Kumasi en route to Sunyani recently was gifted with some revelations. A thought-provoking conversation between two friends on the bus on which he travelled that day revealed that the deputy minister for Youth and Sports, Mr. Yamin (former gang-leader of the notorious guys who conspicuously and arrogantly defied all odds to terrorize Kumasi residents during the bio-metric registrations and the general elections of 2012, courtesy, DSP Kwesi Ofori, of Pankrono District HQ) owns some 250 hunting dogs. True or false? And what is his trade secret? His dogs are hired out at random to his employees and the needy for game. They travel long distances with them on coaches to hunt for grass-cutters, antelopes, deers, rats, squirrels et cetera and return to Kumasi to sell same to the chop-bar operators there. Now that he has relocated to Accra for ministerial portfolio, whom has he decided to bequeath the several dogs to for a living? Who is his lucky heir-apparent? ?Who feeds them? Has he made some arrangement to dispose of them or would be transporting them later to Accra for similar job opportunities around the Amasaman or Kasoa areas?
