Martin Amidu, a former Special Prosecutor, has expressed his disappointment in President John Dramani Mahama over his handling of corruption issues.
According to Martin Amidu, he supported Mahama’s candidature and campaign for him in the 2024 election, hoping he would succeed in the fight against corruption.
The former Special Prosecutor argued that Mahama’s fight against corruption had fallen short of his expectations.
Martin Amidu noted that ongoing partisan developments of the Mahama government, protecting party members and going after political adversaries, are not vindicating him; but are rather putting him to shame.
The former Special Prosecutor made this known while criticising the government’s handling of the AKSA bribery scandal, arguing that 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 in a write-up titled Nothing useful will come from Ghana-AKSA probe in his conclusion wrote, “The examination of the qualitative research data available to me, my experience as a participant observer in the Ghanaian political and constitutional process, which extends into decades, and my analysis of the extant data in this discourse ground in me the sincere belief and conclusion from the bottom of my heart that nothing useful in the nature of a thorough professional investigation will come out of any Ghanaian investigation into the Asante Berko–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 6 August 2026.
All the Ghanaian public officials and politically exposed relatives of President Mahama will be cleared of any wrongdoing for the crimes committed between 2014 and 2016.
I have demonstrated from the examination and analysis of the facts and environment surrounding the Asante Berko–AKSA–Ghana bribery deal and the evolved scheme of reducing constitutionalism and democracy to the electoral democracy machine for winning the next election, introduced into Ghanaian politics by the Agyekum Kufuor government, that governments in Ghana now consider it suicidal to investigate, prosecute and convict suspects from the ruling government and political party.
EOCO, as presently constituted and controlled by the Attorney-General, is the worse vehicle for impartial, apolitical investigation and prosecution of the Asante Berko–AKSA–Ghana bribery deal, whether for corruption or money laundering.
EOCO under its present leadership, it has been contended in this discourse, has been weaponised as the Ghanaian Gestapo for hunting down perceived adversaries through the process of criminal justice administration and protecting the government’s own appointees and supporters from prosecution.
He added, “I campaigned for John Dramani Mahama to win the 7 December 2024 elections because I took the view that he had learnt his lessons from being the only President to have been defeated at the polls after one four-year term as President of Ghana.
The ongoing partisan developments of protecting party members and going after political adversaries are not vindicating me; they put me to shame.
But I still write to contribute to the founding ideals I was part of establishing in the Consultative Assembly, 1991, which became the 1992 Constitution, and to uphold the founding ideals of the NDC in 1992, which I helped to found, because I still have hope that President Mahama can redeem himself within the one and a half years left for him to become a lame duck and leave a legacy of incorruptibility.
President Mahama needs to vindicate the trust the electorate placed in him when it preferred him over the candidate of the NPP at the 7 December 2024 election.
Forces of nature, save Ghana!”
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