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Peacefmonline.com can confirm that the Attorney-General and Minister of Justice Martin Amidu has been relieved of his duties. President John Evans Atta Mills, a couple of minutes ago, dismissed Mr Martin Amidu, peacefmonline can authoritatively say. Director of Communications at the Presidency, Koku Anyidoho, confirmed the news to PeaceFM's Castle Correspondent, Bernard Quansah. It is believed the decision to sack the A-G was over his recent allegation of crime against some ministers in the government. In the wake of the fiery response of a statement he issued last week, which among others alleged a cover-up of "gargantuan" crimes by a colleague cabinet minister and the mercenary nature of some members of the media sympathetic to the cause of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC), President Mills, at a closed door meeting with the A-G on Friday, demanded him to substantiate his claims or jump ship. But it seems the A-G failed to meet the president's demand culminating in the axe being brought on him this afternoon. According to sources, at the said meeting, the Justice Minister, who had said that he had never begged the President Mills to be appointed Attorney-General, pleaded with the President to temper justice with mercy, particularly in the face of the impending Cabinet reshuffle. Mr Amidu, on January 11, 2012, signed and issued a statement titled, �Response to Malicious Libels against the Attorney-General�. In the statement, he claimed, among other things, that �... colleague minister of state who perceived my integrity and professionalism as a lawyer was a threat to the concealment of gargantuan crimes against the people of Ghana in which they might be implicated�. Mr Amidu again alleged, �Fairness requires that NDC criminals be prosecuted by me as well, as an independent and impartial Attorney-General, albeit appointed by the NDC Government.�