Rockson-Nelson Dafeamekpor, the Majority Chief Whip, has told the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) that they were not given a bulletproof cars not to deliver.
According to Rockson-Nelson Dafeamekpor, the OSP cannot sit in a bulletproof car and prosecute just seven cases.
Dafeamekpor interrogated the effectiveness of the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) over what he describes as low prosecutorial output despite significant state investment.
He detailed that Parliament only approved the procurement of bulletproof vehicles for the OSP and its senior officials due to the high-risk nature of their work.
Speaking on JoyNews’ PM Express on Tuesday, February 3, 2026, Dafeamekpor explained, “You ask for bulletproof vehicles. We agree to that, because of the specialised nature of your work, we approve that you can use bulletproof cars for your operations. We didn’t give you bulletproof cars not to deliver”.
“We expect that you will deliver, but to sit in a bulletproof car and be prosecuting seven, eight cases is a no-no”.
He added, “The Office of the Special Prosecutor gets ¢250 million on average every year, and every day he will report that I’m investigating 15 cases, I’m looking at 20 other cases and prosecuting about seven,” he said.
Meanwhile, the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) has offered a direct rebuttal to critics who have characterised the office as a drain on national resources.
According to the Special Prosecutor, despite the office still being in its formative stages and facing budgetary challenges, they have saved Ghana more than twenty times the total amount of money released to it since its establishment.
In the OSP Half-Yearly Report for December 2025, the Special Prosecutor, Kissi Agyebeng, argued that the OSP has delivered strong results.
Parts of the reports stated, “It cannot be maintained by any form of argument that the Office has not performed as expected and that it is a drain on national resources,” Mr Agyebeng stated in the report. “The Office… had a stellar record and its ultra-high profile and ground-breaking corruption and corruption-related investigations… had saved the nation more than twenty-fold the total amount of money actually released to the Office”.
“Therefore, it cannot be maintained by any form of argument that the Office has not performed as expected and that it is a drain on national resources”.
The report detailed as stated by Citinews stated, “in 2022, the OSP investigated customs advance rulings and introduced measures that ended discretionary discounts on the valuation of imported goods and used vehicles. This action, the report said, blocked corruption opportunities within the Customs Division of the Ghana Revenue Authority and saved the country millions of cedis”.
“The Office also highlighted its 2023 investigation into auction sales at the ports, which led to the introduction of an electronic auction system. The e-auction platform has increased auction revenue by an average of 12 per cent each month, adding millions of cedis to state revenue”.
“Between 2023 and 2025, the OSP investigated procurement contracts awarded by the Ghana Revenue Authority and the Ministry of Finance to Strategic Mobilisation Ghana Limited. The cancellation of those contracts, according to the report, saved the nation about GH₵5.73 billion”.
“In 2025, a corruption risk assessment of disinfection services at Ghana’s ports of entry involving the Ghana Health Service and LCB Worldwide Ghana Limited reportedly saved the country an estimated GH₵345 million”.
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