Accra, June 8, GNA - The Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, Mr Martin A.B.K. Amidu, on Wednesday denied the existence of a Criminal Investigations Department (CID) report or docket on the alleged Mabey and Johnson bribery scandal in his office.

In a statement reacting to a newspaper publication on June 7, Mr Amidu said: "There is no CID report or docket in my office as at the date of the publication under reference that required any action by me or any of my officers."

He said his opinions or advice on police dockets went to the Commissioner CID stating that a suspect be charged, a docket be closed for lack of evidence among other considerations or that further investigations be conducted along lines indicated in the opinion.

"I do not submit police dockets to the President for justice to be d= one as alleged by the publication. The Constitution for good reason did not make the President a judge in suspected criminal matters," he added.

The statement explained that the Office of the Attorney General acted in accordance with settled legal and professional principles and ethics which were well known to all who want to educate themselves about them.

"The innuendoes contained in the Daily Post publication, do no good to the suspects in the case, Police CID, Office of the Attorney General, Office of the President or the credibility of the eventual resolution of the case."

The newspaper publication was under a banner headline Re:"The Mabey & Johnson Bribery Scandal, Peprah, Yankey and others cleared! After investigations by CID of Ghana Police Service."

It said among other things that the CID had turned up nothing incriminating against any of the suspects it investigated.

"The report of the investigation is said to have been handed over to the Attorney General whose duty it is to submit it to the President advising him on the next step to take."

The publication concluded that "all eyes are now on the Attorney General, Martin Amidu, to act with dispatch on the report with many NDC supporters waiting with bated breath for him to hand over the report to the President for justice to be done."

The suspects in the alleged scandal are Mr Kwame Peprah, Alhaji Baba Kamara, Alhaji Boniface Abubakar Sadique, Alhaji Amadu Seidu, Brigadier-General Lord Attivor, Dr Ato Quarshie and Dr George Sipah-Yankey.