Bravo Mr Amidu, Thank You Justices

Kwasi Ansu-Kyeremeh

The congress people who have been heaping abuses on Mr. Martin Amidu, former Attorney-General and Minister of Justice and our Justices of Peace must be squirming.

The NDC corrupt architects of fear and panic must be feeling that feel.

The NDC chairman had proposed many ways for getting rid of judges. Now we know there is a way to take back stolen motherland money. You need a vigilante Amidu and a bench ready to protect the motherland from congress embezzlement.

To some of us, it is bitter sweet; though more sweet than bitter. It is sweet we have the money back and it is sweet we have citizens of the Martin Amidu kind. It is also sweet we have justices who will put the nation first notwithstanding a corrupt executive's machinations and bribery attempts.

What a twist of fate for the motherland. What an irony that Mr Amidu is the child of an ostensible house-cleaning accountability and probity revolution that ended up producing the most corrupt set of ingrate self-styled revolutionaries who subsist only on thieved public funds.

It is these corrupt elements who ended up designing and implementing atrocious judgment debt payments out of the motherland's treasury.

They perpetrated, and are still engineering, a deplorable practice that has crippled the finances of the motherland, stripping it of all flesh and leaving only bones for the rest of us with dog teeth to chew.

Important as it is in the motherland's search for governance that promotes justice and fairness, the Martin Amidu act is heroic.

It is nonetheless only a tiny vindication of the ideals of a coup that has left the scar of arrogance, ineptitude, mediocrity, greed, avarice and incompetence in a National Democratic Congress group, which passes well as National Destruction Congress.

As for the Justices, their vindicating verdict will go a long way to restore hope in my compatriots as pertains to responsible use of the motherland's money, the tax money my compatriots sweat to put into the national treasury.

The judgment has come at a time when every bit of hope appeared to be disappearing.

The Justices have redeemed the good name of the bench from their colleagues who 'failed to protect the public purse.' They have actually enhanced the image of the judiciary.

We cannot wait for similar rulings by the Justice Apau sole commission. And we cannot wait for those who stole our elections to be denied the exercise of power achieved by theft.

For once, let the President of the Republic show faith with my compatriots. Let the President show faith with the motherland. Let the President set up an escrow account into which all the monies directed to be retrieved by the esteemed justices, all GHC41m of it, will be paid.

An instituted board of trustees comprising GNAT, TUC, GMA and GBA representatives, supported by the Ghana Institution of Engineers must administer the fund.

The board will advertise for education and health projects to be implemented, under its supervision, in each of the one hundred and seventy districts in the motherland.

My concerned compatriots and I don't want the money to be paid into the consolidated fund so that it gets channeled back into a different judgment debt servicing. It has been cold sweat by Martin Amidu and it has been bold decision by the Justices. Let no President make it all come to nothing by failing to take the money back with speed.

It is extremely heartwarming to learn that there are citizens like Mr Amidu and justices like the nine who sat on the Waterville case; compatriots who will reject bribery in favour of doing good in the name of the motherland and in the public interest.

The judgment is greater than just in the national interest.

It is a major dent in the corruption campaign and a huge push for the anti-corruption effort. It is a rare feat; a very, very rare feat where sons and daughters of the motherland will give up bribery money for their pockets in the public interest.

Thank you Mr Amidu, thank you Justices of the Supreme Court. Keep staying by the side of the deprived of the motherland and she will ever be grateful. It is slow and sometimes not easy to notice. But we seem to be progressing with the courts ready to take on executive abuse of power, corruption and mismanagement of the public purse.

Observers at the observatory are busy watching and waiting for action from the President who is expected to execute the judiciary decision to retrieve the stolen money.

Closely being monitored also is where the money will go once retrieved.

How long it takes to refund the money and what it ends up used for once retrieved will determine a President's commitment to the motherland's cause.