Former Attorney-General Martin Amidu has raised concerns about the legality of Attorney-General Dominic Ayine’s reported purchase of six heavy-duty printers for the Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO) in February 2025.
Amidu, in a opinion piece; retorted;
“Dominic Ayine owes the electorate an explanation as to his reasons for accepting the nomination and appointment to be the Attorney-General of Ghana on a salary of about GHc65,201.17 a month while abusing his public office by purchasing six heavy-duty printers costing about a total of GHc300,000.00 for one of the law enforcement agencies under his ministerial supervision in violation of the funding provisions of EOCO pursuant of Section 15(b) of Act 804.”
He emphasized that the Attorney-General’s office is constitutionally entrusted with enormous powers that must be exercised impartially:
“There is a world of a difference between public resources appropriated by Parliament to the Ministry of Justice and its entities and the private wealth of the Attorney-General.
“Consequently, the reasoning that because Dominic Ayine used his personal ‘money or funds’ to buy six heavy-duty printers for EOCO there is no conflict of interest involved presents an argument based on illogical reasoning.”
Amidu also detailed how he arrived at the estimated value of the printers:
“In writing this discourse, I had to obtain proforma invoices for the procurement of one heavy-duty printer. I received two quotations… It is from the foregoing that I derived the conservative estimated price of GHc50,000 per printer, be it HP Copier or Canon Copier, for the purposes of illustrating the probable quantum of the personal donation at stake in violation of the EOCO Act.”
He concluded by stressing the need for transparency and accountability:
“The Ghanaian electorate and all patriots need to demand that the government moves away from media optics targeting vulnerable citizens and instead provide transparency and accountability in its stewardship of the national trust bequeathed to it at the last elections.”
