The Office of the Special Prosecutor was set up to serve as an independent investigating and prosecution body to make inquiries into corruption, bribery, or other criminal cases at the national level whether they be public or private but many believe that the office has failed to deliver its duties after five years of it establishment because of the constant dropping of a ledge of corruption cases.
Speaking to Mr. Alex Emmanuel Nti a political analyst on EBAANOSEN the late afternoon political show on Plan B FM, Mr. Nti suggested that the Office of the Special Prosecutor should be disbanded because the office is not up to the task.
He added that all the alleged corruption cases raised by OSP have been dropped and cleared by the president on several occasions making the office incompetent.
He stressed that the posture of President Akufo Addo in Charles Bissiw’s bribery case and the inflated figures in the procurement of the Sputnik V vaccine by the health minister Kwaku Agyeman Manu and the expenditure of covid 19 funds etc is a clear indication that President Akufo Addo has failed in the corruption fight in the country.
The Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) has reportedly dropped all the initial corruption charges it filed against the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Northern Development Authority (NDA), Sumaila Abdul Rahman, his two deputies, and a private contractor.
According to a report the OSP, after dropping the initial charges, filed 11 new ones when the presiding judge for the case, which is being heard in the High Court in Tamale, struck out the old suit.
The OSP, which confirmed the 11 new charges in a tweet shared on Tuesday, April 4, 2023, indicated that all the accused persons pleaded not guilty.
They were granted bail in the sum of GH¢2,000,000 on the condition that they will surrender their passports and not travel outside Ghana without informing the court.
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