Kissi Agyebeng, the Special Prosecutor, has revealed he has begun counting his days to leave the office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP).
The Special Prosecutor asserted to persistent threats to the survival of the Office of the Special Prosecutor.
Speaking on the performance and public perception of the office, Kissi Agyebeng detailed, “They want an independent institution to fight corruption, separate from the Attorney General and more than 50 per cent, and with this, I take pride in it, of the majority of Ghanaians trust the Office of the Special Prosecutor more than any other institution to fight corruption. And with this, my job is done.
‘However, I have started counting down my days to when I depart as Special Prosecutor,” he said.
“When I become the former Special Prosecutor, I want to look back and say, civil society forged this office, and civil society preserved it. It is your handiwork, do not let it die,” Kissi Agyebeng stated.
“You recall what happened in 2025. Incidentally, it was our best year of performance. At the same time, it was our worst year of existential force,” he said.
“Why should Kissi and a few officers of the Office of the Special Prosecutor be the ones always fighting existential battles just to keep this office running? Had it not been the good-naturedness of the president, the office would have been scrapped by the end of December 2025, in violence,” he stated.
Also, Kissi Agyebeng has said 2025 was the Office of the Special Prosecutor’s (OSP) best year of performance; at the same time, it was its worst year of existential troubles.
According to Kissi Agyebeng, while the office achieved some of its best results, it also endured its “worst year of existential troubles.”
The Special Prosecutor asserted that political calls to scrap the office significantly contributed to the challenges it faced.
However, noted that such pressure stems from its mandate to hold public officials accountable.
Kissi Agyebeng added, “2025 was our best year of performance; at the same time, it was our worst year of existential troubles. Why should Kissi and a few officers of the Office of the Special Prosecutor always fight existential battles just to keep this office running?” he said.
It will be recalled that Majority Leader Mahama Ayariga and Majority Chief Whip Rockson-Nelson Dafeamekpor drafted a Private Member’s Bill seeking the repeal of the Office of the Special Prosecutor Act, 2017 (Act 959).
Also, Alban Bagbin, the Speaker of Parliament, has said Ghana cannot continue to allocate huge sums to the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) when the country is not getting the results.
According to Speaker Bagbin, the Office of the Special Prosecutor was created to prove a point that it was prepared to tackle corruption.
He further questioned the constitutional basis of the Office of the Special Prosecutor.
Speaking during a debate in Parliament on Thursday, November 4, 2024, Speaker Bagbin stated, “If you recall, during the deliberation on the OSP, a number of us stated on the floor of this House that it has no constitutional basis, but we wanted to signal to the world that we are going to fight corruption”.
“At the end of the day…we cannot continue to allocate huge sums to the same office when we are not getting the results. This is one of the agencies we should be looking at,” he remarked.
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