Private legal practitioner Martin Kpebu has alleged that embattled former Minister of Finance, Ken Ofori-Atta, is making efforts to secure permanent residence in the United States.
According to him, credible information from a source indicates that one of the former minister’s sons is leading the push to convince US authorities.
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Speaking on The Key Points on TV3 on November 22, 2025, Kpebu criticised Special Prosecutor Kissi Agyebeng for what he described as a lackadaisical attitude toward extraditing Ken Ofori-Atta from the US.
“It turns out that in the interim, Ken Ofori-Atta is trying to get permanent residence in the US. You know, this work we do, if I had to disclose all my sources, my sources would dry up. It’s credible, but I have to keep citizen journalism. I have the right to keep it,” he claimed.
Kpebu continued, “So right now, the key thing is that, and that’s why it’s really aching me more. As the OSP was being reluctant, Ofori-Atta, through one of his sons, has applied for permanent residence in the US. So that complicates his return.”
When pressed by host Alfred Ocansey to reveal the source of the information, Kpebu insisted the lead was reliable and verifiable.
“I look at where the source is coming from. I believe it. And of course, if push comes to shove, we’ll go into the US system, which is there, and they’ll say, okay, we’ll do an RTI request to the Department of Homeland Security and the State Department in the US,” he explained.
The outspoken lawyer rejected the OSP’s justification for attempting to try Ken Ofori-Atta in absentia, describing the move as “ridiculous.”
“So the key thing is that, as we’re here, from January [2025] we started asking for trial in absentia. The OSP came and gave us ridiculous, ludicrous answers, that, no, you cannot do trial in absentia. Eleven months! The fugitives, as described, are not in the country, obviously. So the trial is going to go on,” he fumed.
The former finance minister is under investigation for corruption-related offences, but efforts to bring him back to Ghana have so far been unsuccessful.
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