Ghana’s Ambassador to the United States,Victor Emmanuel Smith, has disclosed that Gabby Asare Otchere-Darko,a cousin of former Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta,called him to say the former minister was willing to return to Ghana to defend himself but was concerned about possible mistreatment.


Speaking on the Saturday, January 17, 2026,edition of TV3’s Key Points programme,Ambassador Smith said associates of the former minister had raised similar concerns.

He later revealed that it was the private legal practitioner who personally contacted him.

“… he thinks that is a worry that his cousin has. And I said, Who’s going to harass him? He has to go through a process, and the Attorney General told me that he will be taken through the due process like anybody else,” Smith said.






Source: dailynewsghana.net