Martin Amidu, Ghana’s former Special Prosecutor, has said nothing meaningful will come out of Ghana’s investigation into the Asante Berko–AKSA bribery scandal.
The former Special Prosecutor expressed grave doubts about Ghana’s ability to produce meaningful criminal evidence, adding that the case could end without any prosecutions.
According to Martin Amidu, nothing useful by way of evidential results will come from Ghana’s investigation into the alleged corruption, corruption-related offences and money laundering connected to the AKSA deal.
Martin Amidu believe that any evidence uncovered in Ghana could be suppressed.
In a strongly worded article, Martin Amidu stated, “I sincerely believe and conclude from the bottom of my heart that nothing useful by way of evidential results would come out of any Ghanaian investigation into the Asante-AKSA-Ghana corruption, corruption-related and other criminal offences such as money laundering deals that were consummated between 2014 and 2017, leading to the conviction of the principal facilitator of the corruption transactions, Asante Kwaku Berko, by the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York on August 6, 2026. The evidence will be suppressed”.
“The Asante Berko-AKSA-Ghana bribery deal for which Asante Berko was convicted in the US on August 6, 2026, relates only to the bribery and corruption of public officials of the John Mahama government between 2014 and the early part of 2017, after Berko had resigned from Goldman Sachs in December 2016 to enable investigations into his conduct,” he said.
“It had nothing to do with bribery and corruption during Nana Akufo-Addo’s government. Of course, the corruption transaction involving AKSA continued, as some payments were made in July 2018, according to the investigation by the OSP.”
“The AKSA bribery might have continued on a bipartisan basis in Parliament and under the Nana Akufo-Addo government and continues to date, as AKSA has become an institution in Ghana,” he stated.
“But any attempt to extend the conviction of Asante Berko as involving criminal activities beyond December 2016, when he resigned from Goldman Sachs for internal investigations into his misconduct, will be an attempt to establish equalisation, as the government did in 2012 with the Justice Appau Commission of Enquiry,” Amidu argued.
Also, Martin Amidu has launched a scathing attack on President John Dramani Mahama over the government’s response to the conviction of the former Managing Director of Tema Oil Refinery (TOR), Asante Berko, who has been convicted by a court in the United States of paying a bribe of over $1 million to officials of the Government of Ghana in the ASKA power deal.
Martin Amidu, in his latest strongly worded epistle, dismissed suggestions that the state security is now going to look into the scandal to find the government officials implicated and bring them to book.
According to Martin Amidu, the OSP began investigating the AKSA bribery case in 2020 and that the file was inherited by the current Special Prosecutor.
According to Amidu, the case was later removed from the OSP’s published list of cases under investigation.
His write-up was titled, “WILL PRESIDENT MAHAMA STOP DECEIVING GHANAIANS AND TELL US WHAT HAPPENED TO THE OSP INVESTIGATIONS INTO THE AKSA BRIBERY DEAL? – BY MARTIN A. B. K. AMIDU”.
Parts of his write-up stated, “Asante K Berko was appointed the MD for TOR by the NPP government of Nana Akufo-Addo to take effect from January 1, 2020. He resigned from TOR on April 15, 2020, following the US-SEC civil suit already referred to herein, without the Nana Akufo-Addo government, which accepted his resignation, referring him to the OSP for investigation and possible prosecution as it had done when it wanted the blood of John Mahama in the Airbus SE-Ghana bribery scandal. The modus operandi in these AKSA and the Airbus cases is similar”.
He challenged President Mahama to inform the general public about what happened during the OSP investigation that started during his tenure.
Martin Amidu stressed that the government is now going to investigate the matter is an insult to the people of Ghana.
“With the investigative tools and other tradecraft available to the Government of Ghana (GoG), a completed investigation docket must have been ready by the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) or other law enforcement agencies in respect of other criminal aspects of the Asante Berko-AKSA-Ghana bribery deal before the National Democratic Congress (NDC) won the December 7, 2024, elections. Indeed, any responsible GoG committed to fighting graft must have been prosecuting the Ghanaian entities and individuals involved in the case at the same time that the United States Government (US-Gov) was prosecuting Asante Berko in a US court.
“It is, therefore, insulting to the intelligence of the electorate for the Attorney-General to be informing the public for the first time since the John Mahama government’s ORAL investigations that the government, through the Attorney-General, is collaborating ‘with his United States counterparts to bring to book persons who are implicated in the bribery scheme related to the 2014-2017 power plant development contract between a Turkish energy company and the Government’,” he said.
Martin Amidu’s remarks come on the heels of the Deputy Attorney General, Justice Srem Sai who in a social media post disclosed that Attorney General Dominic Ayine was engaging his US counterparts following the conviction of the former Asante Kwaku Berko, concerning the AKSA power project in Ghana.
His post stated, “The Honourable Attorney-General is working with his United States counterparts to bring to book persons who are implicated in the bribery scheme related to the 2014-2017 power plant development contract between a Turkish energy company and the Government.
This follows ASANTE KWAKU BERKO’s conviction by a United States federal jury in Brooklyn, New York, on charges of conspiracy to violate the United States’ Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and other related laws”.
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