Former Defence of Minister, Dominic Nitiwul
Former Defence of Minister, Dominic Nitiwul has questioned John Dramani Mahama’s government’s moral right to arrest their political opponents after discontinuing corruption-related cases.
The Attorney General and Minister of Justice has discontinued several cases since the National Democratic Congress (NDC) took over power.
These cases involved former appointees of John Dramani Mahama during his first term as President of Ghana.
Although there are calls from analysts and corruption fighters for reasons to be provided to justify the decision to discontinue the cases, none have been provided by the government.
Speaking on Accra-based Asempa FM, Dominic Nitiwul indicated that the current government has no moral justification to go after their political opponents when they have decided to clear their members who are standing trial for corruption-related issues.
“Will you have the moral justification to arrest your political opponent? You gave out Tamale Kaladan Park to your members and today you are coming to arrest people because they also gave lands out? You should let the law work. People have been charged with causing financial loss to the state and you say you have the power to discontinue the case so you discontinue and go and arrest your political opponent for same, is that how you want to run the country?” he questioned on Accra-based Asempa FM.
To Dominic Nitiwul, the NDC government should have allowed the laws to work, and if their members who were standing trial were innocent of the chargers, they would have been served justice.
To him, a bad precedent has been set as other political parties will also discontinue cases when they take over power just because the Attorney General has the power to do that.
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