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The Former Special Prosecutor Martin Amidu has released a 27-page reply to comments made by the President following his resignation.

President Akufo-Addo after the man known as the citizen Vigilante accused him of interfering in the discharge of his duties denied any form of meddling.

However, in Mr Amidu’s latest epistle, he insisted that the President had indeed interfered in his work.

“It was only when the President directed me through his Chief of Staff in the morning of 21 October, 2020 in her office at 8:40 in the forenoon not to take any further steps on the Agyapa Royalties Limited Transactions anti-corruption assessment report until I met the President on Friday, 23 October, 2020 that I was awoken to the suspected realization that the President’s holier than thou pontifications about fighting corruption did not extend to doing so without fear or favour, affection or ill will to cases in which the President’s ox is gored."

He continued, “The demands made on me by the President when I met him in his Office on Friday, 23, October 2020 to withhold any further action on the tax haven based Agyapa Royalties Limited anti-corruption assessment report convinced me instantly that he had laboured under the mistaken impression that I could be his poodle."

“The interfering demands made by the President on the performance of my functions as the Special Prosecutor is the only explanation for me telling the President immediately in his office that I did not intend to continue as the Special Prosecutor.”

Read Martin Amidu's full statement attached: