Martin Amidu has slammed current Attorney-General, Dr. Dominic Ayine, accusing him of using “prosecutorial discretion” as a smokescreen to protect political allies in the controversial discontinuation of the criminal trial involving Dr. Kwabena Duffuor and seven others.
Former Attorney General and Special Prosecutor, in a hard-hitting open letter, alleged that the government’s decision to enter a nolle prosequi in the Republic vs. Kwabena Duffuor & 7 Others (CR/0248/2020) case was deliberately designed to abort public accountability and shield powerful figures accused of financial crimes.
“This reeking high corruption by the Government has been dressed in the robe of an exercise of prosecutorial discretion by the Attorney-General… whose discretion needs no explanation,” Amidu stated.
He went on to argue that the move could not have been quietly executed without provoking public outrage, stressing that concerned citizens and constitutional advocates would have inevitably demanded transparency and accountability.
“The Government and its Attorney-General knew there was no way they could get away with quietly filing a discontinuance… without it becoming public and drawing demands for answers,” he noted.
Amidu warned that bypassing legally established frameworks for plea bargaining or restitution, as outlined in the Criminal and Other Offences (Procedure) (Amendment) Act, 2022, undermines judicial integrity and public trust.
He concluded that the government’s arbitrary 60% recovery threshold, used to justify halting prosecution, “betrays the spirit of transparent justice.”
