President Nana Akufo-Addo has once more been at the end of a scathing attack by former Special Prosecutor, Martin Amidu, who described the President as a corrupt kabuki dancer presiding a “looting machine.”
In his latest series of controversial write-ups, Amidu noted that President Akufo Addo has become power-drunk and dishonest, only using theatrics to whip people behind his unpopular decisions.
“…in Akufo-Addo’s Kabuki dance, we the People who voted him into power are rabbles who are undiscerning of truth and reality,” Amidu wrote.
The Kabuki dance is a Japanese folkloric dance in which male performers over exaggerate every move to drive home their emotions in theatrical performance. In the context Amidu uses it for illustration, he implies the President resorts to theatrics after he has despotically railroaded his corrupt decisions through.
The whole write-up started on the premise that the Majority side of Parliament had shot themselves in the foot when they staged a walkout when it came time to vote over the 2022 budget.
According to Martin Amidu, the walkout was a dirty ploy that the Majority had resorted to when they realized that they were going to lose the vote to the Minority because they did not have the numbers.
And according to Mr. Martin Amidu, that gesture was symptomatic of power drunkenness that has characterized the government of Akufo-Addo since he took over in 2017.
“Nana Akufo-Addo’s government became infested with the arrogance and impunity of power right from the day it assumed the reins of Government on 7th January 2017. This is the government of a make-believe democrat who consults stakeholders affected by his major policies only after getting Parliament to enact his wishes as policy. The government then seeks cosmetic post-facto consultation with affected stakeholders only when there is a serious objection to the policy by the electorate and other stakeholders,” Amidu diagnosed.
“The constitutional principles of probity, accountability and transparency in governance are shamelessly contravened by a government that came to power only after representing to We the People that it would be the most accountable and transparent government ever to run the affairs of this country.”
He catalogued the government’s major corrupt credentials as including the Ameri Energy scandal that led to the resignation of Energy Minister Boakye Agyarko who was reportedly sacrificed as a fall guy for the dubious happenings around the deal.
The former Special prosecutor also cited unresolved scandals such as the Sputnik-V Covid-19 vaccine scandal; the Aker Energy Scandal, and the Agyapa Royalties scandal.
Amidu has specifically resigned over the Agyapa deal which his corruption assessment report unearthed a plot by President Akufo Addo and his close family and friends seeking to hijack all the mineral royalties of Ghana under a shell company registered in one of the most notorious tax havens in the world.
In the Agyapa fallout, Amidu described President Akufo Addo as the “ mother serpent of corruption”.
According to Amidu, the government has perpetrated with impunity all the corruption scandals and that that same sense of impunity is what led to the Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, presuming to tell the Speaker of Parliament how to do his job when Rt. Hon. Bagbin called for a vote on the 2022 budget.
When the Speaker refused to be dictated to by the Minister, Mr. Amidu write, the Majority side resorted to a spurious excuse that led to the unprecedented walkout leading to the rejection of the 2022 budget.
Calling the Minority’s vote against the budget as just their first redemption from the betrayal they had perpetrated when they approved the appointment of Ken Ofori-Atta as Minister and also allowed some other Akufo-Addo Minister nominees to be approved.
Amidu advised them not to be cowed by threats from the government. According to him, every patriot has a duty to fight against Akufo-Addo and his looting brigade.
“Let every patriot put Ghana First and protect the public purse from the looting machine,” Amidu wrote of the government.