Ghana Can Survive Without Foreign Aid – Amidu

Martin Amidu, the special prosecutor nominee has said that Ghana can survive without foreign aid if corruption is eradicated or minimized, has said at his vetting.

He said Ghana can save a lot of money if seepages and leakages at the ports are stopped.

Answering questions before the Appointment’s Committee of Parliament on Tuesday, February 13, 2018, Mr. Amidu said “I will say the amount of seepages and leakages at the ports if we stop it we won’t need foreign aid”.

“Taking millions of cedis for oneself deprives people f quality healthcare, education and other services.

“I want to set up a credible institution with a credible culture and block all the leakages in the system. I don’t care if I’m unable to prosecute anyone because part of the law talks about prevention,” he said.

President Akufo-Addo has on different platforms told the international community that he wants to build a Ghana Beyond Aid because the nation has all the resources to be self-sufficient.

“We’re determined,” he said in Germany June 2017, “to wean ourselves off aid” and that can be achieved after comprehensively fighting corruption and plugging all the loopholes in the country’s finances.

About Martin Amidu

Martin A. B. K. Amidu was the Attorney-General and Minister for Justice from January 2011 till January 2012 under the late President John Evans Atta-Mills.

Amidu, a member of the NDC, served as the Deputy Attorney-General for about the last four years of the Provisional National Defence Council military government.

After civilian rule was established in the Fourth Republic in January 1993, he continued to serve in the government of Jerry Rawlings as Deputy Attorney-General. This he did for both terms lasting eight years until January 2001.

In the December 2000 presidential elections, he stood as the running mate of John Atta Mills. They both, however, lost to President John Kufuor that year.

Source: thePublisher