Maurice Ampaw, a Legal practitioner, has claimed the Special Prosecutor, Kissi Agyebeng, foiled the NPP’s campaign message by clearing then-opposition leader John Dramani Mahama’s name in the Airbus bribery scandal.
According to Maurice Ampaw, the NPP’s campaign message was to tag Mahama as corrupt to delay his resumption into office.
He accused the Special Prosecutor, Kissi Agyebeng, of exonerating Mahama in the Airbus scandal just to gain favour in his administration.
Speaking on Wontumi TV, Maurice Ampaw stated, “Nana Addo brought Kissi Agyebeng, taking over power, he went after Akufo-Addo’s opponent like the Air Bus case and then targeted NPP appointees like Cecilia Dapaah and others.
“And when we were getting closer to the election, he went to exonerate Mahama from the Airbus scandal”.
“That was NPP’s campaign message, that Mahama was corrupt, so he could have waited for a while. But he bought the idea that if Mahama comes to power, they will protect him. So, he cleared him, and NPP couldn’t tag Mahama as corrupt,” Ampaw claimed.
He further alleged that “Akufo-Addo worked with traitors and vampires but never touched them or sacked them, including former IGP Dampare, who was making the government unpopular.”
It will be recalled, Special Prosecutor Kissi Agyebeng, during a media briefing ahead of the 2024 general elections on August 8, 2024, cleared President John Dramani Mahama and several other individuals of any wrongdoing in the Airbus bribery scandal.
Kissi Agyebeng, during a media briefing, revealed that after an investigation, which spanned over four years, he found no evidence to support allegations made against the high-ranking Ghanaian officials in the United Kingdom and United States court decisions.
The Special Prosecutor stated, “found no evidence, circumstantial or direct, which suggests that Foster and his associates were actually paid bribes and those bribes were to be transmitted to former President Mahama and that said bribes were actually paid to former President Mahama”.
Meanwhile, in recent times, Kissi Agyebeng is facing three petitions seeking his removal as Special Prosecutor.
Also, Martin Kpebu, a private legal practitioner, has alleged that Kissi Agyebeng was handpicked by Gabby Otchere-Darko, the former Attorney General, Godfred Dame and former President Akufo-Addo to do their bidding.
He further alleged, once again, that Kissi Agyebeng colluded with former Minister of Finance Ken Ofori-Atta to allow him to travel out of the country.
Speaking to JoyNews on December 4, 2025, Martin Kpebu stated, “… The story remains that Kissi Agyebeng sat on his hands and allowed Ofori-Atta to run out of this country, when Ofori-Atta had five cases pending before Kissi Agyebeng, which leads to a reasonable suspicion of collusion.
In the past, Kissi Agyebeng had worked for Ofori-Atta, and also Kissi Agyebeng used to work for Gabby Otchere-Darko, who is related to Ofori-Atta,” he alleged.
He added, “We always have to mention because we are connecting the dots. Kissi Agyebeng was hand-picked because he’s close to Gabby Otchere-Darko, Godfred Dame and Akufo-Addo. He was hand-picked so that he would do their bidding. He wasn’t picked as an independent person.
Martin Amidu was the one who was picked as an independent person, and see how Martin Amidu stung Akufo-Addo as the mother serpent of corruption. So, Akufo-Addo said ‘No, henceforth I’ll pick somebody who will play ball with me,” Kpebu claimed.
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