Two behemoths, both with a reputation for brutal honesty; it would be interesting to find out who is lying in the long run.

Former Attorney General and famed ‘citizen vigilante’, Martin Amidu- on Monday made some claims on the recent Anas investigative piece into the judiciary. Amidu claimed that the entire investigation had been commissioned by the government of the late President John Atta Mils– and that portions of the investigation had been shelved to protect some corrupt politicians.

Anas and his Tiger Eye team wasted no time in responding. In a statement, they denied the investigation was commissioned by any government. They added that all other claims contained in Amidu’s statement were false, and that he should produce proof to the contrary.

Never one to back down from a good fight, Amidu has sent his response to Tiger Eye in another statement. The former Minister in his new statement maintains that he stands by everything he wrote in his first statement.

“I stand by everything contained in my statement of today on the attempt to suppress political corruption with the commissioned judicial corruption investigations.”

He also added he was working on a sequel to his first one, which would contain all the proof required to make his case. He promised to publish it soon.

The plot thickens…

Read Amidu’s sharp response to Anas Aremeyaw Anas below:

I have just read what is supposed to be a response to my statement on the Ghanaian sense of Justice: Corrupt Judges Removed, Corrupt Attorneys Rewarded, and Corrupt Politicians Protected from some organization calling itself a Tiger Eye. There is a squeal to my today’s statement devoted entirely to an alleged company called Tiger Eye PI on which I wrote a separate statement simultaneously. I was not prudent to publish both today but I have informed some of the press houses about its existence and will be published it for the public to understand my views about the so called Tiger Eye PI.

There after I will answer to the response of Tiger Eye should it still insist. In any case there is a nexus between the events when I was in Government and the investigations commenced after President Mills’ death allegedly in 2013 which has been captured in foot note 16 (particularly the last but one note) of my published statement of today. The response regrettable appears to have been written without reading the foot notes to my statement as an intellectually minded person would have done.

I stand by everything contained in my statement of today on the attempt to suppress political corruption with the commissioned judicial corruption investigations. Further proof is contained in the squeal and Tiger Eye or whatever it calls itself should be patient to read it first and then we can have useful discussions. In the interim I am grateful for the response.  The principle I am fighting against is the use of paid private Government agents in an Orwellian Big Brother fashion contrary to the Constitution of Ghana.

Martin A. B. K. Amidu
9^th November 2015