The youth wing of the National Democratic Congress, NDC, in the Bawku Central Constituency of the Upper East Region has described the move by the Special Prosecutor, Martin Amidu, to prosecute the Member of Parliament for Bawku Central, Mahama Ayariga, as selective justice.
According to them, the office of the Special Prosecutor which is a subsidiary of the office of the Attorney General, must be guarded by the dictates of the rule of law which require it to be fair and resist the tendency to be swayed by personal interest as well partisan political pressures to act capriciously by going out for citizens of this country based on his personal dislike for those persons.
This was contained in a press statement issued and copied to gbcghanaonline.com Bawku by the Youth Wing of the NDC in the Bawku Central Constituency.
The press statement further stated that even though they believe in Probity and Accountability but certainly detest vendetta and selective justice as exemplified by the recent actions of Mr. Martin Amidu.
The statement noted that Mr. Mahama Ayariga has served the country diligently in various capabilities from an elected Assemblyman, a Member of Parliament for three times, Press Secretary and Spokesperson to the late former president John Evans Atta Mills, Deputy Minister of Education, Minister of Information, Minister of Youth and Sports and Minister of Environment Science.
According to the statement, the move by the Special Prosecutor is an agenda aimed at tarnish the reputation of the MP for Bawku Central Constituency, Mahama Ayariga, over an age old personal feud against the people of Bawku for choosing the latter over him as a suitable parliamentary candidate for Bawku Central a decade ago.
The Youth Wing alleged in their press statement that the irreparable damage Mr. Martin Amidu’s capricious pursuit of personal vendetta against innocent citizens of the country is fast eroding the gains Ghana has made as Africa’s oasis of Constitutional Democracy.
The NDC Youth Wing revealed that it was not Mahama Ayariga who instigated the rejection of his parliamentary ambition but it was the elders and opinion leaders of the NDC in Bawku with the advise that he should rather consider the now Builsa North seat instead of Bawku Central Constituency.
He should be minded to use his position as Special Prosecutor against those who are plundering the tax payers sweat and resources of the country perhaps that is what the Ghanaian public want to see and not this lazy, vexatious and irritating venture of pushing a none issue only to satisfy his paymasters who are busy still plundering left, right and Centre while he is looking the other way.
The NDC Youth Wing reminded the Special Prosecutor to tackle serious cases including “BOST” saga, 2.52m Eurobond saga,
The Kwesi Nyantakyi Bribery Scandal, The Australia Visa racketeering scandal, The Galamsey Corruption Saga involving a presidential staffer, Mr. Charles Bisaw.
The former Minister of State at the Office of the President In-charge of Special Duties, Rockson Bukari bribery leaked tape among others.
According to the statement, Mr. Martin Amidu in his attempt to get the constituents of Bawku Central, is pursuing yet another personal vendetta in a case of the purchase of an ambulance worth Ghs100, 000 by the Bawku Municipal Assembly with funding from the MPs Common Fund to support efforts at promoting Health Services delivery in Bawku.
It emphasized that in the Special Prosecutor’s pursuit of fault finding against Mr. Mahama Ayariga, Mr. Martin Amidu has been looking for loopholes in the processes in procuring the ambulance which was in dire need to urgently save lives in the Bawku municipality.
Consequently Mr. Martin Amidu as Special Prosecutor has since detained this ambulance for the past ten (10) months and is still keeping same as of now insensitively depriving the people of Bawku access to the services of the ambulance that was supposed to aid in saving lives in Bawku and its environs.
The NDC Youth Wing was hopeful that the courts of Ghana will stand firmly by the side of the truth in re-stating in no ambiguous terms the innocence of Mr. Mahama Ayariga.
Story by GBC’s Samuel Ayammah
