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A tough-talking lawyer, Captain (rtd) Nkrabea Effah Dartey says the one-man vigilante, Martin Amidu’s critics of the work of the ace investigative journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas in the judiciary come to him by no surprise.

According to the lawyer for one of the beleaguered judges, Justice Ayisi Addo, he fully agrees with Martin Amidu on the score that Anas goofed with the kind of methodology he used to expose corrupt judges within the judiciary.

Former Attorney-General and Minister of Justice under the former late President Mills has stated what he did not know was that the method of exposing corruption in the judiciary and parliament was going to be through commissioning covert anti-corruptionpreneurs as government agents (to secretly collaborate with established security agencies) to allow for possible deniability.

“The ingenuity, however, becomes farcical when the Attorney General grants immunity and protection to entrepreneurial Government Commissioned undercover agents who collaborate with established security agencies as independent whistleblowers under the Whistleblowers Act, 2006 (Act 720) and contrary to the prohibition of the Police Service (Private Security Organizations) Regulations, 1992 (L.I. 1571),” Citizen Vigilante Martin Amidu said in a statement”.

But commenting on Okay Fm’s Ade Akye Abia Morning Show, Captain (rtd) Nkrabea Effah-Dartey said what Anas did was not correct because he should have done his investigation to expose corruption in the Judiciary in the right way without tempting the judges.

Without pointing accusing finger at anybody, the renowned lawyer rhetorically asked for the person behind Anas investigations and how he got the money to entice the judges; stressing that “morally what Anas did was wrong and we should not encourage it at all”.