Seven appointed to prosecute corrupt officials

Seven special prosecutors are said to have been appointed by the government of President John Agyekum Kufuor to help speed up the process of prosecuting corrupt public officials, writes The Dispatch.

It said there are indications also that the cases will be put on the fast track system of the Ghanaian judicial system.

It is very likely that many of the early cases will be issues of alleged payments of kickbacks into foreign bank accounts of some leading members of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and top public officials.

The star witness for the various prosecution is expected to be a 54-year-old mining engineer, Dr. Albert Owusu Barnafo.

The paper's investigations have revealed that certain individuals have in various statements to some agencies given a tall list of people they allegedly paid huge sums of kickbacks from contracts to with sources indicating that the list would shock many Ghanaians.