Amidu Seeking Cheap Popularity – Murtala Mohammed

NDC firebrand Murtala Mohammed says Special Prosecutor Martin Amidu must focus on his work and stop seeking “cheap publicity” in the media.

Mr. Amidu in an article warned public office holders and all Ghanaians against accepting suspicious payments into their personal bank accounts.

The article is in relation to the ongoing investigation into double salaries received by some former Ministers of state. But Speaking on Metro TV monitored by thepublisheronline.com, Murtala said the Special Prosecutor should focus on the core mandate of his office and stop the  unnecessary public attention.

“If monies are hitting your account is that news? In any case it is very simple to trace the source of the funds, so coming public on that matter was not necessary. He was seeking cheap popularity,” Murtala Mohammed said .

Martin Amidu in his latest article on the topic, ” The Obligation to return Suspicious Payments of Public Funds into one’s Bank Account,” said he was surprised when an unspecified amount of money hit his account from an unknown source on August 3, 2018.

Mr Amidu wrote “I immediately made a verbal objection to the Branch Manager where I had gone to make the withdrawal in view of my earlier standing instructions to my Branch Manager not to accept any payments or transfers into my account without first clearing with me personally owing to an earlier incident when a similar payment was transferred to the credit of my account without notice or authorization from me in 2015”.

But Muetala insists the publication was needless and a strategy by Mr Amidu to win public sympathy.