Leave Auntie Betty alone!

Ghana's Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, Mrs Betty Mould-Iddrisu, is under incessant pressure to resign or be relieved of her post. The call for her to resign is because hawks within the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and pro-NDC newspapers such as Ghanaian Lens and Daily Post believe she is incompetent.

THE NDC hawks also want the Attorney-General to quit her position because of her inability and what they have described as her failure to prosecute corrupt ministers under the former New Patriotic Party (NPP) government of John Agyekum Kufuor. According to them, there is overbearing evidence at the disposal of the Attorney-General to start prosecuting NPP ministers who were alleged to be corrupt, but this they do not see her making any effort.

AMONG some of the cases cited to buttress their claim that NPP ministers were corrupt include the Ghana @ 50 Secretariat and the MV Benjamin cocaine case. Their point is that these cases lay bare to the fact that indeed some of the NPP ministers were corrupt.

WE at Today are indeed disturbed at the unnecessary pressures brought to bear on Mrs Mould-Iddrisu to prosecute NPP ministers at all cost. It is unthinkable that those who are describing her as incompetent are measuring her competence based on her inability to jail NPP ministers. Since when did such a yardstick become a standard to be used in measuring ones' competence?

THESE same NDC hawks have adduced that the Attorney-General is overly protective of the so-called corrupt ministers under Kufuor's administration because according to them she has friends in the NPP. By all these we are not saying that corrupt ministers should be left to walk free in our society. We know the ramifications if corrupt persons are not prosecuted especially as we all agree that we need to weed corruption from our societies.

BUT what worrying to us on the Today newspaper is where some politicians use power to politically persecute their opponents even when there is no evidence to prosecute. Mrs Mould-Iddrisu has stated time without number she is looking into the activities of NPP ministers who served under former President Kufuor, and that she will need overwhelming evidence to start prosecution.

SO then the question is why all these pressures when Mrs Mould-Iddrisu has indicated that she needs to get all her facts right before she starts with prosecution of alleged corrupt NPP ministers. We are using this medium to advise those NDC elements who are pressurising Mrs Mould-Iddrisu to prosecute NPP ministers to leave her alone.

IT is important that we understand and appreciate the nature of her job taking into consideration the technicalities involved. For now we implore NDC elements who would want see Mrs Mould-Iddrisu fired to allow her space and time to do her job

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