{"id":3370,"date":"2024-02-26T09:16:42","date_gmt":"2024-02-26T09:16:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=3370"},"modified":"2024-02-26T09:16:45","modified_gmt":"2024-02-26T09:16:45","slug":"dont-misquote-me-to-justify-your-corruption-mismanagement-martin-amidu-warns-ndc-npp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=3370","title":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t Misquote Me To Justify Your Corruption, Mismanagement \u2013 Martin Amidu Warns NDC, NPP"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ghana\u2019s first Special Prosecutor and former Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, Mr. Martin Amidu has cautioned the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and the New Patriotic Party (NPP) against quoting his pronouncements out of context to justify their corruption or mismanagement so as to deceive the voting public for electoral gain only to abandon them after when it suits them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He added that the parties should not seek to counter him if he assesses them and gives his verdict on which of them is more corrupt given that he is now deemed as their authority on corruption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe New Patriotic Party (NPP) and the National Democratic Congress (NDC) should be careful about quoting what I said or wrote in the past out of context to spuriously support allegations of corruption or mismanagement against each other for the purely propaganda purpose of deceiving the electorate for their votes and abandoning them thereafter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"ose-youtube ose-uid-2e4fe3669c682bce8d43d8a90f55187c ose-embedpress-responsive\" style=\"width:400px; height:400px; max-height:400px; max-width:100%; display:inline-block;\" data-embed-type=\"Youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SupoGFCWLL0?feature=oembed&color=red&rel=0&controls=1&start=&end=&fs=0&iv_load_policy=0&autoplay=0&mute=0&modestbranding=0&cc_load_policy=1&playsinline=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; encrypted-media;accelerometer;autoplay;clipboard-write;gyroscope;picture-in-picture clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen referrerpolicy=\"origin\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;I hope that when eventually I determine by a considered examination and analysis of the facts and evidence the most corrupt of the two political parties they will each accept my verdict without question since I have become their authority on this issue,\u201d Mr Amidu argued in an article chastising the NPP\u2019s Nana Akomea for allegedly quoting him out of context.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the long article, Mr Amidu went on to justify why he had, in 2015, advised John Mahama to not bring disrepute to northerners. He explained that, as a northerner himself, advising John Mahama in that light was culturally permissible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Conversely, he noted that Fifi Kwetey\u2019s description of Mahamudu Bawumia as a \u2018disgrace to Northerners\u2019 is not permissible since he is an Ewe and not a Northerner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Source:&nbsp;<strong>MyNewsGh.com<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ghana\u2019s first Special Prosecutor and former Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, Mr. Martin Amidu has cautioned the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and the New Patriotic Party (NPP) against quoting his pronouncements out of context to justify their corruption or mismanagement so as to deceive the voting public for electoral gain only to abandon them after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3371,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,18],"tags":[939,67,232],"class_list":["post-3370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-news","category-politics","tag-martin-amidu","tag-ndc","tag-npp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3370"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3372,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3370\/revisions\/3372"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}