Corruption in the broadest sense takes many forms and is an endemic feature of governments the world over who thrive on the rhetoric of fighting corruption while protecting themselves, public appointees, family members, and cronies reasonably suspected of committing corruption offences from accountability under the existing laws. President Mahama’s government by the mismatch between its rhetorics and actions is once again becoming one such government.

The Mahama government’s endeavour to silence me from continuing to update the Ghanaian electorate on the circumstances, facts and available evidence in the AKSA-Ghana Bribery deal by delegating a surrogate parading as a civil society activist (Edem Senanu), and the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the state owned National Petroleum Authority (NPA) (Edudzi Tameklo) paid from the public purse to accuse me in my absence on the TV3 Key Points programme on 29 August 2026 of failing to include the AKSA-Ghana Bribery investigation commenced by the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) in April 2020 in my Handing Over Notes upon my resignation, is an act of desperation borne out of a feeling of complicity in the AKSA bribery and corruption transaction by the government.

Edem Senanu in contributing to the panel discussions on the AKSA-Ghana Bribery deal, told the public authoritatively that I did not include the AKSA-Ghana Bribery deal as being under investigation by the OSP in April 2020 in my Handing Over Notes when I resigned my office on 16 November 2020. Senanu also claimed that I did not include the AKSA-Ghana Bribery deal investigation as a pending investigation in the half-yearly statutory publication I issued to the public before I resigned as the founding Special Prosecutor. Only cowards like Senanu would lie between their teeth in the absence of their innocent victims against the truth in pursuit of earning their daily bread and/or ingratiating themselves to the President and the OSP despite the records in the OSP on the AKSA-Ghana Bribery deal investigation.

Edudzi Tameklo, the CEO of the NPA paid from public funds supported Senanu’s falsity when he created the impression in the public mind that I had indeed dishonestly excluded the AKSA-Ghana Bribery deal investigation from my Handing Over Notes because non was on-going when I resigned my appointment. He implied that I had deceived the public when I published that the OSP had been investigating the case since April 2020. Edudzi Tameklo did not claim to have seen or read the Handing Over Notes or the statutory publication Senanu claimed to have relied upon to accuse me of dishonesty. As a politically appointed public officeholder funded by the public purse Edudzi Tameklo must have been acting on the instructions of President Mahama to support the unprovable derogatory allegations made against me by Senanu to intimidate and silence me from enlightening the public on the AKSA-Ghana Bribery deal.

The recorded facts and evidence as shown on the statutory publication issued under my signature to the media on a half-yearly basis and my Handing Over Notes dated 16 November 2020 vindicate the fact that I never published the list of pending cases being investigated by the OSP during the entire period of my tenure as the Special Prosecutor. I have stated ad nauseam in several publications in the media that it is ethically unprofessional for any investigator and/or prosecutor to try any person of interest or suspect in the court of public opinion before a charge is preferred against the person under law.

Edem Senanu is not a staff or Board Member of the OSP. How then did he come by my Handing Over Notes dated 16 November 2020 to maliciously misrepresent its contents to the unsuspecting public?

The most reasonable answer in the circumstance derive from President Mahama and the OSP being unable to “tell us what happened to the OSP investigation into the AKSA Bribery Deal” as I have consistently demanded in my publications on the AKSA-Ghana Bribery deal.

Consequently, they supplied Edem Senanu, who managed to worm his way into the African Union Advisory Board against Corruption (AUABC) with the false information about my Handing Over Notes. But Edem Senanu, the anti-corruption entrepreneur, coward, and hoodlum without any professional competence to meticulously read his brief and my Handing Over Notes carefully, just parroted the falsehoods he was told in the glare of the TV3 Key Points audience and to the nation demonstrating to the whole world that he is unfit to be the President of the AUABC.

The truth which is contained in “paragraph 7.0” of my Handing Over Notes which I wrote myself proves beyond any reasonable doubt that I did not and have never published the list of pending investigation in the OSP during my tenure as the Special Prosecutor. Paragraph 7.0 of my Handing Over Notes on pages 5 to 6 stated unequivocally, inter alia, as follows:

“7.0 STATUTORY PUBLICATIONS UNDER ACT 959 AND TEMPORARY WEBSITE

The Office is required by section 3 (3) of the Office the Special Prosecutor Act, 2017 (Act 959) as part of its functions to “on a half yearly basis, to publish the following information in at least two daily newspapers of national circulation and on the website of the Office:

1. the list of corruption cases investigated and prosecuted by the Office; and
2. the number of acquittals, convictions and cases pending in respect of the cases prosecuted under (a) and the value of proceeds recovered if any.”

Consequently, in spite of the lack of reasonable office accommodation to employ an ICT and Cyber Security team to man a website the Special Prosecutor thought out of the box and got temporarily established a website which has been fulfilling this statutory function since January 2019 to date. The Acting Director of Operations will be at hand to assist you in handling this matter.

This Office has made the third half yearly publication providing the statutory information stipulated in section 3 (3) (a) of Act 959 since the Office became functionally operational with a small core of investigators by the end of 2019. The latest statutory publications stipulate as follows:

“Section 3 (3) (a) of Act 959

List of corruption cases investigated and accused charged for court:

1. The Republic v (1) Mahama Ayariga (2) Kenerick Akwasi Marfo – (investigated jointly with EOCO)
2. (The Republic v (1) Hajia Hawa Ninchema (2) Sumaila Ewuntomah Abudu (3) Alex Avade (4) Alhaji Abdul-Mumuni Jesewunde (5) Mary-Stella Adapesa (6) Mumuni Yakubu Nambe (7) Mahama Ayariga

List of corruption cases of accused persons arraigned and being prosecuted:

1. The Republic v Mahama Ayariga (2) Kenerick Akwasi Marfo
2. The Republic v (1) Hajia Hawa Ninchema (2) Sumaila Ewuntomah Abudu (3) Alex Avade (4) Alhaji Abdul-Mumuni Jesewunde (5) Mary-Stella Adapesa (6) Mumuni Yakubu Nambe (7) Mahama Ayariga

Section 3 (3) (b) of Act 959

There have been no acquittals, and convictions as the two cases listed above are pending as being prosecuted. Consequently, no value of any assets have been recovered.

NB/ This half yearly report for this half year repeats the second half year publication for the year 2019 dated February 27, 2020 because of the stay of proceedings in the case of the Republic v Hajia Hawa Ninchema & 6 Others (High Court, Accra, 31st July 2019 and the Republic v Ayariga,& Another (High Court, Accra, 23rd October 2019) ordered by the High Court (Financial Division 2), Accra, in the substantive trial of any criminal charges filed under the signature of the Special Prosecutor pending the determination by the Supreme Court of the case of Ayine v the Attorney-General which seeks declarations that the appointments of the Special Prosecutor under Section 13 and of the Deputy Special Prosecutor under section 16 respectively of Act 959 are unconstitutional, null and void. The Supreme Court dismissed the entire case of the Plaintiff against the Attorney General as unmeritorious on 13th May 2020.”

It is important for the reader to note carefully that I stated that: “NB/ This half yearly report for this half year repeats the second half year publication for the year 2019 dated February 27,2020…”.

I challenge Edem Senanu and Edudzi Tameklo to produce the evidence that I ever published pending cases under investigations by the OSP throughout my tenure as the founding Special Prosecutor. The available evidence is that when the only policewoman detective on the staff of the OSP supplied MyJoyOnline with false information leading to a news report which stated that: “These 25 officials are Hot as Martin Amidu begins Probe into corruption cases” I commenced disciplinary proceedings against her for misconduct and suspended her from work. MyJoyOnline news also reported on 13 May 2019 that: Information Minister under Special Prosecutor investigation – MyJoyOnline. My reaction, reported in CitiNewsroon on 22 May 2019 can be read on: Special Prosecutor’s challenges worrying – Batidam

Edem Senanu and Edudzi Tameklo presented themselves before the TV3 Key Points programme on 29 August 2026 to the Ghanaian public and electorate as honourable men. But so are they all. All the honourable men and political elite. They parasite on the public purse like leeches and/or ingratiate themselves with incumbent governments in aid of their anti-corruption enterprises to fill their gluttonous stomachs.

Otherwise, how could these two honourable men sit on the TV3 Key Points programme and shamelessly lie to the nation in the manner they did just a day after I had published an article in the media stating that:

“I have stated in a previous article that the OSP started investigations into the Asante Kwaku Berko-AKSA-Ghana Bribery deal in April 2020. The Station Diary together with the Diary of Action of the investigation case docket on Asante Kwaku Berko’s case in the OSP should show what action the OSP has taken on that investigation within the past six years including when I was the founding Special Prosecutor.”

The two honourable men were at their dishonest and mischievous best to implant in the

public mind on the TV3 Key Points programme not to expect any positive results implicating suspects from the Ghana investigations, which is exactly what I had accused the President and the OSP of doing to kill the Asante Berko-AKSA-Ghana bribery deal investigations when I wrote that:

“The inability of the President and his protected Special Prosecutor to tell Ghanaians what has happened to the investigations begun in April 2020 in the Asante Berko-AKSA-Ghana bribery deal means that the disappearance of the investigation case from the list of pending cases under investigation by the OSP over the years since Kissi Agyebeng became the Special Prosecutor was deliberately done to kill the OSP investigations started in April 2020.”

This dialogue demonstrates with solid facts and evidence that President Mahama’s attempts to intimidate and silence me using public appointees and surrogates in the Asante Kwaku Berko-AKSA-Ghana Bribery deal discourse to cover-up the massive corruption will fail and has failed.

The only reason for which I have exercised considerable restraint in writing about President Mahama’s government during this his second and final term as President under the 1992 Constitution is to enable the National Democratic Congress (NDC) which we founded to

present a winnable presidential candidate and programme at the 2028 elections. I will

abandon all restraint should any further attempt be made by the Mahama government using surrogates and hoodlums to intimidate and silence me again by planting falsehoods in the media against the verifiable facts and truth I advocate for in my publications. We should

never as a nation forget what Luke 12:2-3 NKJV teaches us: “For there is nothing concealed that will not be revealed…”. God Save Our Homeland Ghana!

Martin A. B. K. Amidu 30 August 2026