My office is committed to ensuring the special prosecutors vision materialize- Martin Amidu

The special prosecutor, Martin Amidu has said that his office is working assiduously to ensure that the vision that informed the setting up the special prosecutor office materialize.

He urge Ghanaian to disabuse their minds of not seeing his office of prosecuting corrupt civil servants for his office has the authority to initiate investigations which will lead to gathering credible fact before charging a suspect to court.

“My office does not talk until it is ready to charge somebody and send him to court. I might be conducting preliminary investigations on you, you will never know until I decide it’s now time the evident is sufficient to start full investigations and it is at this point that you get to know that you are the subject of investigation”. Mr. Amidu stated.

He made these assertions in a press briefing organized by the Ghana Audit Service to prosecute civil servant with Ghost names on salary.

He noted that his office is not going to witch hunts but will make sure that any cases they prosecute, there is a certain degree of probability that the offence has been committed because every prosecution means an expenditure of state funds.

“We wouldn’t waste public funds because people are emotional and depressed, informing me to prosecute people and expect me to go to court and acting accordingly, we would have to act professionally” he stressed.

“My job is to prevent, investigate, prosecute, recover, access and proceeds of access of corrupt and corruption offences” Mr. Amidu he stressed.

Mr. Amidu pledged his support to the Ghana Audit Service in prosecuting all civil servants with ghost names on government pay roll which will be starting on the 17 of July, 2018 in the central region.


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