The Castle, seat of government, might have developed a penchant forte of rubbishing stories concerning that office; yet the Today newspaper can state on authority that a hatched Castle plot to get the Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, Mrs. Betty Mould Iddrisu, out of the ministry, is fast gaining grounds.
The serving harbinger is the recent ruling by the High Court on Kwadwo Mpiani, Wereko-Brobbey Ghana @50 secretariat cases. Betty Mould-Iddrisu is a sure casualty of the ruling party, which inside sources have hinted, constitute a major embarrassment to government.
In the scheme of things, a former deputy Attorney-General in the first administration of the NDC and current Minister of Interior, Martin Amidu, is widely favoured to replace Mrs. Betty Mould Iddrisu, as the substantive Attorney-General (AG). Betty’s adversaries, who had since day one kicked against her appointment in the Mills administration, find the latest legal setback as perhaps the finest catalyst yet to sever perpetual relations with the lady Attorney-General.
Betty Iddrisu But there are others urging government to thread cautiously on the lady Attorney-general lest it triggers the already volatile Rawlings-Mills dichotomy in the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC). Betty was propped up by the Rawlings axis in the NDC and had since not found favour with the inner kitchen cabinet of the President and especially coming at the time of Rawlings’ open hatred against the Mills administration, there is no hidden fact about the growing agitations being made by the all powerful Mills’ cabal to get her out of government.
Although opinions within government on Betty may differ, the factions are unanimous that the current Attorney-General had been a failure at the office and should therefore be changed immediately.
Source: GhanaWeb
