I have been following with avid curiosity conversations surrounding news that the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) has not furnished the Attorney-General’s Office with the Ken Ofori-Atta docket to facilitate his extradition.

I was quite disappointed to read about this development until I read the OSP’s response to the effect that it is padding up the docket with additional evidence to strengthen its case against the former finance minister for extradition.

Unfortunately, there has been a hostile reception of their side of the story from the public to what in my view should have been a reasonable explanation. Now apparently, people are calling for the scrapping of the OSP as an institution.

Failing that, they at least want the Special Prosecutor, Kissi Agyebeng gone. It has taken me some time to realize which quarters these calls are actually coming from.

OSP denies withholding docket needed for Ken Ofori-Atta's extradition

There is no need to belabour the fact that politicians and their cronies in industry generally do not want the OSP as an institution to exist. They were more comfortable with the status quo institutions that watched on while they (politicians) raped this country of its resources meant for developing the various sectors for you and me.

The OSP as an institution led by the Special Prosecutor, Kissi Agyebeng is one of Ghana’s institutions that have investigated, continue to investigate and prosecute former ministers.

The list doesn’t end there, the office also investigated alleged corruption involving a former president. Never in this country’s history have we seen any anti-corruption Office flex its muscles and sneeze so hard the “corruption-preneurs” are catching all manner of infections – from cold to ebola!!

Such boldness from the Kissi Agyebeng led OSP has pushed the corruption-preneurs to sponsor media personalities, both traditional and social media, to wage war against the Office and Kissi. I can understand them and their motivation. The conundrum for me, however, is the ordinary Ghanaian joining these calls.

Let’s pause and consider what we are asking for. With the OSP gone, who fights corruption in Ghana? The Attorney General who holds a political position who is gleefully holding press conferences today like mini soap operas while taking on officials of the former government?

In two years' time, when the sins of the NDC come up, will he still be willing to take on his own people? We have seen it all before oooo. I may have been born yesterday but certainly not this morning. At the very least, the OSP under Kissi Agyebeng has struck fear across the political and economic elite.

Ghanafo, we are being called to join those who will continue to steal from us to scrap the OSP under the guise of inaction, inefficiency, and incompetency. Kissi Agyebeng has been in Office for 4 years and he has built cases to secure 7 convictions. The OSP is currently prosecuting 23 persons in eight (8) prosecutions that are ongoing in Accra, Kumasi, and Tamale.

On Average, trials in this country take about 3 years. That is no fault of Kissi or the OSP, but a legal system problem. Through the payroll investigations, the OSP saved the state GH¢37,103,881.8 million cedis through a corruption risk assessment conducted into government payroll administration.

The savings resulted from the blocking of unearned monthly salaries totalling two million eight hundred and fifty-four thousand one hundred and forty-four and eighty pesewas (GHC 2,000,844.80) for 2024 only.

We want the big fishes. True. But the big fishes have the lawyers to drag cases. The anti-corruption fight requires painstaking work and time. Even the AG and deputy AG have admitted that.

Let us not give in to the agenda of paid pseudo-journalists and their puppet masters. Kissi Agyebeng could walk back into private practice and earn millions. With every anti-corruption institution in this country led by a partisan creature, the OSP and Kissi Agyebeng are the bastion to depoliticize corruption and go after the corrupt, regardless of party colours.

The institution may not be perfect, and the pace of their work may not match the pace of expectations. But we crucify the OSP and Kissi Agyebeng at our peril.

Cecilia Dapaah, Ofori-Atta and the bipartisan loot party will be the biggest beneficiaries. And who are the losers? It’s the person you saw in the mirror this morning!!

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