Education Minister Betty Mould-Iddrisu resigns
Education Minister Mrs Betty Mould Iddrisu has resigned, usually reliable sources told the Ghana News Agency (GNA) on Monday night.
The sources said she tendered her resignation to the presidency on Monday.
The reasons for her resignation not yet clear.
Her resignation followed the firing of Attorney-General Mr Martin Amidu for “misconduct” during a meeting at the Castle on January 13th when he failed to substantiate allegations of “gargantuan crimes” perpetrated against the state by an unnamed colleague.
Mrs Mould-Iddrisu was the Attorney-General and Minister of Justice when the state failed to put up a defence on the suit filed by businessman Mr Alfred Woyome for judgement debt over the aborogation of an alleged contract with the government in 2006 for the rehabilitation of three stadiums.
Source: GNA
this is an election year and it is so indubitable that this gargantuan amount was paid purposely for the financing of the ndc campaign in the forth coming general elections
you reap wha you sow. ghanaians soon forgot that it was this same atta mills who presided over the looting of $22,000,000 by a 30 year old American going by the name juliette cotton. now he has connived with the finance minister, a lazy, unintelligent arm chair lawyer appointed as an attorney general called betty mould iddrisu to steal GHS 58,000,000.00 from state coffers under a fraudulent nomenclature of a ”judgement debt”.It seems to me that this president,in spite of his excruciating poor background,knows nothing about the judicious use of state funds and is prepared to dole it out on any flimsy and fraudulent pretexts.
It is in defiance of conventional wisdom to arrive at any plausible conclusion over a notion that two prominent ministers of government would resign spontaneously without related causes.
The most striking aspect of it all is the accompanying exercise of silence or depth of aloofness to which the public has been drawn away from the entire drama with false belief that an issue of such magnitude would die away through passage of time. Political scientists are also baffled over the logic behind such a move particularly at approach of elections where tactics and avoidance of mistakes must be executed in all major decision making apparatus. It is obvious that , with their action, the echelons of powers have downplayed any seriousness shrouding the causes of such resignations – treating them as acceptable norm befitting a tolerant electorate.
The President’s aloofness is bound to have some striking effects including diminishing his ability to connect with the electorate with impeccability and as accessory of facts, a claim which his opponents will be in position of advantage to label.