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Mr. Martin Amidu, a former Attorney General, has said that government intentionally altered the report submitted by the judgment debt commission to conceal the portions that acknowledged his (Amidu’s works).

Mr Amidu, who has been nicknamed ‘Citizen Vigilante’ for his fight against corruption, is asking the Government – “for the sake of consistency in its intolerance for alternative views within even the NDC” – to remove all other portions of the report that commend him in order to complete their objective against him.

In his latest epistle titled “Commissions of Enquiry and Non-Political White Papers”, the former A-G said, “in the political White Paper, the Government forgot to expunge or pretended not to have noticed, in order to expunge the kind words the Commissioner repeated about me in his report on Civil Engineering Co. & Yakubu Adam Kasule v Attorney-General, etc., at pages 355 to 356 of the leaked report thus: “….It is sad that Hon (Mr) Martin Amidu has been vilified for being just. He has suffered several media bashing propelled by some faceless people, for pursuing a just cause as a patriotic citizen of Ghana and a good one of course. This Commission is amazed that he remains unfazed by such wrong attacks. The Commission accordingly accords him the enviable esteem of a Ghanaian who loves his country more than himself.”

“The Government’s determination to obliterate any good thing said about me (as its internal NDC foe) in the Commissioner’s report, as it did at page 5 of the White Paper would come to naught without expunging the above commendations as well,” he added.

Mills as Veep and Prez usurped AG role

The Former Attorney-General further stated that the interference of the late President Mills, while a Vice-president in 1999 and later as President caused the state to incur some judgment debt payments.

According to the Citizen Vigilante, the late Prof. Mills’ persistence, as Vice President in 1999, to disregard the 1992 Constitution and usurp the powers of the Attorney-General was the reason for the award of “consent judgment debts and other liabilities that became the subject of the Sole Judgment Debt Commissioner’s report in the Delta Foods Ltd v Attorney-General” case.

He said the Prof. Mills’ interference also emerged in the EO Group case of 2011 where then Energy Minister Joe Oteng Agyei and then vice president John Mahama played roles behind the back of Mr. Amidu, occasioning a subsequent judgment debt award.