Gagging Citizens’ Rights to Free Speech Becoming ‘Suffocatingly Oppressive and Unbearable’ – Amidu Scolds A-G | Politics

Former Special Prosecutor, Martin A.B.K. Amidu says the Minister for Justice and Attorney-General cannot be allowed to walk away with his penchant of talking down on the sovereign people of Ghana.

He says Mr. Godfred Dame cannot be using threats and intimidation to suppress citizens’ right to free speech in criticizing the weaponization of the process of criminal justice administration entrusted to his care under Article 88 (3) & (4) of the 1992 Constitution with the spurious rhetoric in the name of citizens running “extremely prejudicial commentary on cases pending before the courts”.

According to him the attempt by the Attorney-General through the press release dated 4 July 2023 to use the smokescreen of “prejudicial commentary on cases pending before the courts” to gag the citizens’ fundamental rights and freedoms to challenge the weaponization of the criminal justice system within the investigatory and prosecutorial process to perpetrate the autocratic governance of the Akufo-Addo regime is now becoming suffocatingly oppressive and unbearable.

“Mr. Godfred Dame, the Attorney-General should always remember that no condition is permanent and that the Chiefs and people he is threatening and intimidating now are the very people he met on his way up and would meet on his way down when he ceases to be the Attorney-General. As a protégé of Nana Akufo-Addo whom he trained from his law firm of Akufo-Addo, Prempeh & Co and appointed as Attorney-General, the perceptions of his independence and impartiality in that office has to be earned by his positive conduct and not by negative perceptions or suspicions that he is being used by the President to weaponize the Office of the Attorney-General against political opponents,” he said in a statement.

Read attached his full statement