Former Special Prosecutor Martin Amidu has launched a scathing critique of the Chief Justice’s recent legal maneuver in a case concerning her potential removal, accusing her of engaging in conduct unbecoming of her high office and calling on the Supreme Court to dismiss her actions as an abuse of legal process.
In an open letter, Amidu questioned the legitimacy of a supplementary affidavit filed by the Chief Justice, urging the apex court to reject it entirely or strike out its core sections.
“Hopefully, the Court will rise above such childlike begging, appeals, and ingratiating conduct from the Chief Justice by refusing leave to admit her supplementary affidavit in its entirety or strike out the paragraphs numbered 6 to 15 of the supplementary affidavit inclusive as being frivolous, vexatious, scandalous, and an abuse of the process of the Court,” he stated.
Amidu, a known advocate for constitutional integrity, warned that the 1992 Constitution must not be manipulated to serve narrow political interests. He emphasized that justice must not be reduced to a performance aimed at protecting individuals in power.
“The 1992 Constitution prohibits the treatment of any citizen in a manner that constitutes a mockery of justice and using ruses in abuse of power under the Constitution to satisfy parochial political interests,” he asserted.
As debates over the Chief Justice’s conduct continue to polarize public discourse, Amidu challenged her supporters—including the governing New Patriotic Party and some members of Parliament—to present hard evidence rather than rely on speculation.
“I have heard political conjecture upon political conjecture since the initiation of the removal petitions against the Chief Justice from the minority in Parliament, the NPP, and other persons supporting the Chief Justice without any iota of fact and evidence to support them,” he said.
Signaling a readiness to defend the Chief Justice if the claims of political orchestration are proven, Amidu maintained, “Let the evidence be produced that the petitioners were suborned to submit the petitions for political reasons and I will be fighting in the corner of the Chief Justice against such provable injustice. That is the only way I can be recruited onto her cause as a citizen vigilante.”
Until such evidence surfaces, however, he insists that fidelity to the Constitution must remain paramount. “All patriots have a duty to uphold the Constitution no matter whose ass is gored,” Amidu declared.
