Unpopular Amidu is behaving like a foreigner- Adu Asare

Kojo Adu Asare said the former AG is fast making himself unpopular especially by pursing the Isofoton case when everybody is mourning the loss of ex-president John Mills.

He made these comments on Joy FM and MultiTV news analysis programme Newsfile on Saturday.

Martin Amidu has filed a suit at the Supreme Court seeking nine declarations on what he suspects are unlawful judgement debt claims being made by Spanish company Isofoton.

He posits Isofoton has no legitimate contract with the state to make that claim and expressed regrets the government has already paid part of the 1.3 million dollars the company is demanding.

He is praying the Supreme Court to make a declaration on the legality of the claims being made by Isofoton.

But Adu Asare has questioned the timing of Martin Amidu’s inquest.

Whilst he concedes some of the issues Amidu is raising are legitimate, he said the mood of the country should inform the former AG that the judgement debt saga must take a back burner.

“It is not as if someone wants to put these matters under any wraps or carpet or whatsoever but for now we want to concentrate on giving our late president a befitting burial.

"If he is not sensitive to such an issue, I think a lot of Ghanaians are,” he stated.

“…I think he is gotten it all wrong. He doesn’t seem to fit into whatever is going on. He is behaving like a foreigner and I am not sure even foreigners would want to behave this way when they know the leader of the country live in is about to be buried.

“I think he is lost,” he added.

He found it rather interesting that Asare will brush aside what he (Akomea) believes was an “insensitive” “untidy”, “unwise” comments made by President John Mahama on the one week celebration of Mills’ death only to turn around accuse Martin Amidu of being insensitive.

Akomea said the issues being raised by Amidu are begging for answers and if he [Amidu] chooses to pursue it now nobody should question his conviction.

He said rather than accuse Amidu of being insensitive, Adu Asare should applaud the former AG for his patriotism.

The Editor of the New Crusading Guide newspaper, Kweku Baako Jnr who was also on the show said the courts have not stopped sitting even as the country grieves for its leader.

He said only a week ago, he and the host of the Newsfile programme Kojo Oppong-Nkrumah were hauled before the courts on charges of contempt by a member of the NDC legal team David Annan on the controversial Woyome matter.

He also found it contradictory that Adu Asare will accuse Amidu of being insensitive merely because he has chosen to litigate the matter during this period when is own colleague David Annan is also in court over a similar matter.

Kweku Baako said Amidu must be treated fairly because even in his statement issued to the public he stated that he has had to withhold the statement for while in reverence to the death of the former Ghana leader.