Martin Amidu has fired a fresh salvo at Professor Henry Kwasi Prempeh, Chair of the Constitutional Review Committee (CRC), accusing him of hypocrisy and ideological deception in his recent proposals regarding the future of the Council of State.
Amidu slammed Prempeh's reform suggestions reported by Joy FM on 3 May 2025, stating, "Firstly, the paradox, hypocrisy, and lack of narrative coherence in the suggestions attributed to Kwasi Prempeh… is the fact that Kwasi Prempeh accepted without demurrer his 'handpicked' appointment and served for almost years as a member of the Law Reform Commission after President Akufo-Addo had consulted the Council of State." According to Amidu, Prempeh's current posturing is a deliberate attempt to undermine the very institution that enabled his own political rise. "Kwasi Prempeh now sees his suggestions as endemic sins of the Council of State.
This is what is called, double speak!" he said in an open letter available to MyNewsGH.
Amidu further criticised the credibility of the platform and institutions from which Prempeh delivered his remarks, stating, "The IEA and CDD-Ghana have never been politically and ideologically neutral NGOs… These are comprador NGOs working with other comprador Ghanaian political elites for political power to serve the interest of their financiers - the neocolonial foreign masters." He also challenged the philosophical basis of Prempeh's argument for reform. "Mr.
