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Structural violence is an activity which deprives the State of resources it otherwise would have used to take care of the welfare of the people of the State. Structural violence is an invisible violence. It kills without being seen. Acts of bribery, corruption and the white collar crime affect a State’s ability to execute its responsibilities to its people. People should not suffer unnecessarily when the State has the means but fails to steward its responsibilities.
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The examination and analysis of Dominic Ayine’s confession of buying six heavy-duty printers for EOCO from his “own money or funds” before PAC, a legislative committee of Parliament intended as a check on the abuse of executive power, has been demonstrated in the foregoing discourse to constitute weaponization of law enforcement for partisan politics, and is tainted with illegality, conflict of interest, and suspected criminal conduct needing urgent bipartisan parliamentary investigation.
Sycophancy breeds autocracy which slowly erodes democracy and the rule of law, and eventually kills democracy. That is how democracies die! Parliament must, therefore, never be seen to be on the leash by the Executive arm of government in its law making functions under Article 106 of the 1992 Constitution. The Security and Intelligence Agencies Bill 2025 as presently laid before Parliament has failed to comply with the mandatory provisions of Article 106 of the Constitution to be introduced in Parliament, accepted and considered for enactment.
President Mahama, nominate a new Chief Justice for approval by Parliament without any further delay while your Attorney-General gets the frivolous, vexatious, and abusive application of the court process by Mrs. Torkornoo thrown out of court soonest in the interest of national security and the supremacy of the 1992 Constitution. Ghana First!
Every reasonable and objective non-partisan reader of the ruling refusing bail in the case under discussion cannot fail to appreciate that Judge Samuel Bright Acquah does not possess the learning, integrity, and high moral character to remain on the Circuit Court let alone to be elevated to the Superior Court of Judicature. I hope and pray to God that Animal Farm is not the country President John Dramani Mahama wants to leave for Ghana as his legacy under Superior Court Justices like Samuel Bright Acquah.
The government’s decision to abort the trial in Republic v. Kwabena Duffour & 7 Others under the rubric of exercising prosecutorial discretion smacks of a text book example of governance of family, friends and cronies that also smells of high corruption. Patriotic citizens must step forward and speak truth to the Government to stop playing tricks. Do not be fooled by Government using cheap psychological media operations in the name of being accountable and transparent. I have spoken up. What of you, fellow citizen! Let us put Ghana First!
The balloon concealing the dishonourable lies and disclaimers the Special Prosecutor has consistently told the citizens of Ghana at a series of media conferences that he was acting independently of government directives and orders has been burst by the exclusive interview granted by the Deputy Minister for Justice, Justice Srem-Sai on 11 June 2025 to Joy News which puts the government’s active participation in the unified operation to humiliate Ken Ofori-Atta in the court of public opinion beyond doubt.
The unfolding facts on the declaration of former Minister of Finance, Ken Ofori-Atta, as a wanted suspect who had allegedly absconded from justice on 2 June 2025 at a media conference by the Special Prosecutor (SP), William Kissi Agyebeng, points to the irresistible conclusion that the SP was deliberately and dishonestly deceiving Ghanaians about the legitimacy of the decision that went into the declaration against Ken Ofori-Atta that day.
Kissi Agyebeng is playing games with the taxpayer’s mind to satisfy the OSP’s unlawful entrepreneurial agenda and not to fight corruption and corruption-related offences and the US government can see through the ruse. The OSP under Special Prosecutor Kissi Agyebeng is like an inflated balloon which once it bursts reveals the lies and misinformation it conceals for the world to see.
The Chief Justice is the head of the judicial arm of government and I am surprised that the paragraphs numbered 14 and 15 of her supplementary affidavit contain a childlike ingratiating cry, begging and appeals to the emotions of the Court and the general public without any scintilla of supporting facts. It is a patent insult to the citizens exercising their constitutional rights under 146 to petition for the removal of the Chief Justice from office.
The Judiciary is the least dangerous branch and the citizen’s hope for freedom and justice. Consequently, we must channel our efforts to defending Article 146 of the Constitution and produce cogent evidence when we allege it is being subverted by any person or group of persons. In the absence of any concrete evidence of impropriety on the part of the petitioners, the public has a vested interest in knowing the outcome of the removal process begun by the petitions submitted to the President.
About Martin Amidu
Martin Amidu has a longstanding political career in Ghana, having served in various party and political roles since the nineteen-eighties. He was a foundation member of the National Democratic Congress. He has held several regional and national portfolios, including roles in Local Government and Rural Development; Industries, Science and Technology; the Interior and Justice Ministries respectively, as well as the Attorney-General's Office. He stood as Vice Presidential candidate alongside Prof. John Evans Atta Mills in the NDC’s 2000. election campaign. Amidu currently serves as a Private Legal and Conflict Resolution Consultant.