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”.
Meanwhile, 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.
Also, Rockson-Nelson Dafeamekpor, the Member of Parliament for South Dayi and Majority Chief Whip, has accused the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) of devouring vast public funds without delivering adequate results.
Speaking on Joy FM’s Super Morning Show on Monday, December 22, Dafeamekpor quizzed the reasoning for the significant budgetary allocations made to the office in recent years.
He revealed Parliament had approved a budget of GH¢250 million for the OSP for the 2026 financial year, arguing that the amount was almost identical to what the office received in 2025.
The Majority Chief Whip stressed that the level of funding for the OSP is comparable to that of the Attorney-General’s Department, which delivers far greater value to the state.
Rockson-Nelson Dafeamekpor stated, “The entity was just guzzling money. If you compare the utility value the Attorney-General is giving us, it is clear”.
“Nobody is saying imprison people. What we are saying is that once cases are prosecutable, prosecute them and let the accused persons have their day in court so the cases can be disposed of.”
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