General News of Wednesday, 18 November 2020Source: www.ghanaweb.comAgyapa scandal: Akufo-Addo denies he told Amidu he would ‘handle the matter’ himselfPresident Akufo-Addo and Martin AmiduNana Bediatuo Asante, the Secretary to President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has rejected the charge in Martin Amidu’s resignation that the President, was trying to let Martin Amidu shelve the “corruption and anti-corruption risk assessment” report on the controversial Agyapa Royalties minerals agreement. His position as the Special Prosecutor had consequently become clearly untenable. At no point did the President ask you to shelve the report so he could ‘handle the matter’, Bediatuo Asante wrote. “You are clearly aware that the President had accepted the observations you had made in the Agyapa Report and had acted on it by issuing directives to officials of the Ministry of Finance and the Attorney-General’s Department. This cannot be the conduct of a person seeking to hamstring your efforts or to avoid the contents of the Report,” Bediatuo Asante stated.

Source: GhanaWeb November 18, 2020 07:18 UTC