Pressure on the Attorney General Betty Mould Iddrisu to prosecute ex-government officials has hit a crescendo with former Supreme Court judge Justice Kpegah joining the fray. Justice Kpegah believes the seeming inaction of the A-G in the face of abundant evidence of corruption and graft against former government officials had baffled many supporters of the ruling National Democratic Congress who were now disillusioned. Speaking to Joy News’ Dzifa Bampoe, Retired Justice Kpegah said Mrs Betty Mould Iddrisu had no excuse not to have prosecuted anybody in the past administration till date. The A-G has called for evidence to enable her successfully prosecute corrupt former government officials but Justice Kpegah is unimpressed. “The Ghana@50 report doesn’t contain any evidence, is that what she is telling us? The Auditor-General’s report on this TOR [debt] Recovery [levy], billions of cedis gone… into private pockets, why can’t [she] look at the Auditor-General’s report and start something from there?" the learned judge wondered. He does not want the A-G sacked but thinks the appointing authority must give some directions to ensure that some members of the previous government who have been found to have engaged in any financial malfeasance are dealt with according to the law. Justice Kpegah is not the only NDC sympathizer who has problems with Mrs Mould Iddrisu. Supporters of the NDC in La Dade Kotopon Constituency have threatened to demonstrate until the A-G is sacked by the president. An Executive of the youth wing of the party in the constituency, Samuel Kwame Ntiaka accused the A-G of not doing her job and deserves to be sacked by the president. He claimed Mrs Mould Iddrisu had been mingling with members of the opposition NPP and was not capable of prosecuting them. “She must go for someone who is serious to come and do the job for us.” “We are even arranging to demonstrate against her, not only the youth in La, the people in Ashaiman, Teshie, Nungua and the women’s wing, are all” planning to join the demonstration, he stated. But the Deputy A-G, Ebo Barton Oduro has defended his boss to the hilt, saying supporters of the ruling party are simply asking for too much. He said prosecuting a person requires more than just going to court and that the likes of Justice Kpegah were entitled to their views. Mr Barton Oduro, catalogued a number of people in the previous administration who were in court including the former Information Minister, Stephen Asamoah Boateng, former Foreign Minister Akwasi Osei Adjei, former National Investment Bank manager, Daniel Gyima and asked how many high profile cases were prosecuted under the Kufuor administration. Responding to all the hullaballoo about prosecuting former government functionaries, NPP MP for Abuakwa South, Mr Samuel Atta Akyea said the NDC should eat humble pie and admit that bandying about propagandist lies in opposition is an entirely different ball game from going to court. “My concern is the frenzy of the NDC about prosecutions. You see my brother when we are pedestrian, we can just be shouting ‘we will jail them, we will jail them, but that is street talk, when we come to professionalism, the power to jail does not rest with the NDC, so the campaign rhetoric has no consequence at all,” he charged. Even the judiciary which has the power to jail does not just jail people capriciously, he noted. Mr Atta Akyea said jailing a person is “evidence adduced, evidence weighed, proof [established] beyond reasonable doubt, cross-examination done before a pronouncement is made as to whether somebody is guilty or not guilty”. Responding to Justice Kpegah, the Abuakwa MP said “I regret to say that I know him as a renowned judge but he is degenerating. Does he want the job of the Attorney-General? How can he stampede the Attorney-General into prosecuting? He as a judge should know better! “If I am degenerating as a judge, Atta Akyea is degenerating as a lawyer,” Justice Kpegah parried. Play the attached audio for excerpts of the interviews Story by Malik Abass Daabu/Myjoyonline.com/Ghana