Duncan Amoah, the Executive Secretary of the Chamber of Petroleum Consumers (COPEC), has warned the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) against damaging people’s reputations unjustly.
According to Duncan Amoah, the OSP must not rush to publicly associate individuals with the alleged Asante Kwaku Berko bribery case, stressing that it could unjustified damage to their reputations could be difficult to reverse.
He argued that a person’s name in court proceedings does not automatically establish their involvement in an alleged offence.
Duncan Amoah urged the OSP to exercise restraint as investigations into the Ghanaian dimension of the case continue.
Speaking on The Big Issue on Saturday, August 30, Duncan Amoah said, “If you find out after your investigations that those people didn’t receive anything and that it was cloud chasing, you would have injured the reputations of those people unjustly”.
“The fact that I work with you does not necessarily mean you know about it or you partook in that thing. You may not even know about it,” he stated.
His comment follows the Kissi Agyebeng, the Special Prosecutor, has named former Power Minister Kwabena Donkor and four other Ghanaian officials as persons of interest in the AKSA bribery scandal.
The Special Prosecutor identified former Power Minister Kwabena Donkor; Francis Walkson Kwasi Dzafa, a former Technical Adviser to the Minister of Power; Solomon Adjetey Sowah, a Deputy Director; Lyndon Nii Mettle, Director of Tricorp Group Limited; and Baffour Ankomah Brobbey, an employee of Tricorp Group Limited as persons of interest.
According to Kissi Agyebeng, the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) had been investigating the Ghana dimension of the case despite its public silence on the matter.
Speaking at a press conference on Wednesday, August 26, 2026, Kissi Agyebeng stated, “As I stated earlier, we have been carefully investigating the Ghana dimension, and our public silence has not meant inaction. Our involvement with the case and the evidence so far enable us to identify the following as the main persons of interest in this case”.
“Kwabena Donkor, who was at all times the Minister of Power; Francis Rockson Kwasi Dzata, who was at all times the Technical Advisor to the Minister of Power; Solomon Adjetey Sowah, who was at all times the Deputy Director at the Ministry of Power; George Nii Mettle, who was at all times the Director at Tricorp Group Limited; and Baffour Ankomah Brobbey, who was an employee at Tricorp Group Limited,” he mentioned.
“Other persons of interest include some present and former employees of Volta River Authority, Ghana Grid Company Limited, Electricity Company of Ghana, Public Utilities and Regulatory Commission, and some staff of the entity formerly known as the Ministry of Power,” he said.
Kissi Agyebeng further stressed that being identified as a person of interest or a suspect does not amount to a finding of guilt.
“Please bear in mind that the person of interest is not necessarily a suspect. The two categories of person of interest and suspect are distinct in investigative classifications and should not be treated as interchangeable,” he explained.
“Identification in either category does not constitute criminal culpability or conviction until guilt is proved beyond a reasonable doubt to the satisfaction of a court of competent jurisdiction,” Agyebeng said.
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