A US-based Ghanaian lawyer and scholar, Prof Stephen Kwaku Asare, has reacted to a statement by former Special Prosecutor Martin Amidu on a petition he supposedly filed for the removal of his successor, Kissi Agyebeng.

In a post shared on Facebook on May 28, 2024, Prof Kwaku Asare, who is widely known as Kwaku Azar, expressed his confusion regarding Amidu's statement.

He questioned whether Amidu, a former Attorney General and Minister of Justice, was distancing himself from the petition, which he described as "disgraced".

"I'm confused by his latest epistle. Is Alamisi Amidu disowning authorship of the disgraced petition?" the academic queried.

Martin Amidu, in his epistle published on May 26, 2024, cast doubt on whether he was the one who petitioned President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to remove Kissi Agyebeng after facing heavy criticism from the public, including leading members of the National Democratic Congress (NDC).

He accused the NDC and Accra-based Joy FM of orchestrating a trial against him in the court of public opinion without any evidence proving that he submitted a petition to remove the Special Prosecutor.

He referenced recent comments by the NDC chairman, Johnson Asiedu Nketiah, as evidence of the opposition's support for the smear campaign against him via Joy FM.

The former Attorney General stated that the NDC chairman's comments were "based on hearsay evidence of a petition I am alleged to have submitted to the President on April 30, 2024, for the removal of the Special Prosecutor."

Amidu, while responding to a Joy FM report on May 17, 2024, that he had petitioned the President for the removal of his successor, demanded to see the alleged petition, questioning its authenticity and the motives behind the accusations.

"I cannot understand why the NDC will collaborate with Kissi Agyebeng’s preferred rented media house and his chief executioner, Sampson Lardy Anyenini, to make allegations against me without publishing the alleged petition on which the allegations are based," Amidu stated.

He also raised concerns about the alleged involvement of the Chief Justice in the matter, questioning the authenticity of documents attributed to her.

He highlighted discrepancies in the documents and called for clarification to restore the integrity of the Judicial Service.

"The alleged document was addressed to only Kissi Agyebeng, the Special Prosecutor, whose media house, Joy FM, broke the supposed news," Amidu pointed out.

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