Former Attorney General and Citizen Vigilante, Martin Amidu, has accused the government and the Attorney General of finding it “honourable” to smuggle into the White Paper on the Sole Commissioner on Judgment Debts’s report, the Balkan Energy Ghana case, which was argued by him as Attorney General before the Supreme Court, and conclusively decided in favour of the Republic, and was not the subject of the Commissioner’s enquiry.
According to him, government has smuggled extraneous matters into the Sole Judgment Debt Commissioner’s report.
Mr. Amidu said the Bankswitch Ghana v Government of Ghana case, as well as the decision that was reached at the alleged Permanent Court of Arbitration, was not part of the enquiry and report of the Sole Commissioner on Judgment Debts, but government and the Attorney General, nonetheless, found it honourable to hood-wink Ghanaians by smuggling it into a White Paper on the Commissioner’s report pursuant to Article 280.
According to Mr Amidu, the development is a deliberate and inexcusable cover up of the government’s complicity in compounding the Bankswitch Ghana arbitral award or debt, which he had advised the government, as Attorney General, in 2011, to settle because it had a very bad case to prevail at any arbitration.
His comments are contained in a statement he issued.
“as for the attempt in the White Paper to water down the Supreme Court’s decisions to favour the government’s foreign friends and surrogates such as Waterville and Isofoton after the Supreme Court’s conclusive declarations and orders on the issue of estoppel, the little said about the government’s disingenuity on the matter the better,” he said.
“I hope Ghanaians will wake up to the fact that this is not a White Paper under Article 280 of the Constitution, but a bogus and fraudulent NDC Manifesto White Paper masquerading as one pursuant to Article 280 of the Constitution,” he added.
He said, this attempts by government also calls into grave question the preamble and solemn declaration and affirmation of the constitution to probity and accountability in the exercise of the Attorney General’s functions under Article 88 thereof.
Source: Newsghana.com.gh
