Walk the Talk and Investigate Perpetrators Behind Raid on Ofori-Atta's Home - Martin Amidu tells Mahama

Accra, Ghana - 15 Feb, 2025 -  Former Special Prosecutor Martin Amidu has called on President John Dramani Mahama to take immediate action against those responsible for the recent invasion of former Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta's residence.

In a statement, Mr. Amidu condemned the raid, which occurred on February 11, 2025, and urged the President to uphold the rule of law and ensure that those involved face legal consequences.

The incident has sparked widespread concern over the use of executive power and the rule of law in Ghana. Mr. Ofori-Atta's residence in Cantonments was raided by a group of individuals, including some in military and police uniforms, while he was abroad.

Special Prosecutor Kissi Agyebeng later declared Mr. Ofori-Atta wanted in connection with corruption-related offenses, sparking accusations of a government-orchestrated smear campaign.

Mr. Amidu's intervention has added to the growing pressure on President Mahama to take decisive action against those responsible for the raid. The former Special Prosecutor emphasized the need for Ghana to "reset forwards and not backwards" and to uphold the principles of democracy and the rule of law.

The Ghanaian government has yet to comment on the incident, but the opposition has seized on the issue, accusing the ruling party of abusing its power and undermining the country's democratic institutions.

Read the statement from Martin Amidu below.

Martin A. B. K. Amidu writes:

Mr. President, I discussed this pervasive coup mentality with you less than a month ago and now you need to face it squarely with firm leadership without any prevarication this time round on the brakeless bicycle speeding with you as the ridder again downhill towards political disaster unless you wakeup from slumber with decisive and preventive action.

The electorate will want to know through a thorough and impartial investigation whether the invasion of the home of Ken Ofori-Atta shown on the excerpts of the CCTV had any link with the declaration of Ken Ofori-Atta as a fugitive from justice by the OSP exercising the prosecutorial executive power on your behalf.

The coincidence of the alleged emergence of Richard Jakpa’s presence apparently leading the invasion of Ken Ofori-Atta’s home with officials admittedly being from the Office of the National Security Coordinator, and the OSP casting Ken Ofori-Atta as having staged the invasion himself to derail the OSP’s investigations gives the perception of a collaboration between the Office of the National Security Coordinator and the OSP unless disproved by an independent and impartial investigation.

The nation has a right to know the motive and the reasons for the Rambo style invasion of the former Minister’s home in his absence under the watch of the President as the Chairman of the National Security Council under which Mr. Richard Jakpa and his men work.

The invasion of Ken Ofori-Atta’s residence allegedly led by Richard Jakpa whose appeal was pending in the Supreme Court when the Attorney-General just appointed by President Mahama partisanly withdrew the case from the Court is a more important pressing reason to have a thorough and impartial investigation into the Rambo style invasion of Ken Ofori-Atta’s home. Would Richard Jakpa, if he really led the invasion of Ofori-Atta’s home on 11 February 2025, have done so if the Ambulance case on appeal was still pending in the Court?

The answer is in the negative. The involvement of Richard Jakpa in the Ken Ofori-Atta home invasion debacle, therefore, calls for the unearthing of the linkages, interconnections, and interwovenness of all the variables in the chain of the authorization and enabling process of the operations of the security assets and agents of the government to conduct the Rambo style invasion of a citizen’s home and privacy.

Mr. President, who is better placed under your Oath of Office to determine whether an appeal pending in the Supreme Court constitutes a political witch-hunt or a genuine case of prosecutable criminal conduct: an Attorney-General exercising prosecutorial authority of the executive power on your behalf at your sufferance or a Supreme Court properly vetted by Parliament and appointed by the executive branch under the 1992 Constitution?

Let the stories of the justifications for the exercise of the Attorney-General’s prosecutorial powers be
told to the marines and drunken sailors, and not to those of us who exercised those powers for decades beginning October 1988 when others were no where near the profession of the law.

Experience and not missing dockets from the Attorney-General’s Office counts! The President needs to walk his talk by ensuring that all those involved in this despicable invasion and other invasions of citizens’ rights and freedoms are brought to trial before the ordinary courts in accordance with the due process of law. Ghana must reset forwards and not backwards to yesteryears! That is what the electorate voted for and not media psyops to deflect the enormity of such unlawful acts by government assets and agents.

Source: Lead News Online