Dr Dominic Ayine, the Attorney‑General, has stated that his office is collaborating with the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) on key corruption investigations.
According to him, although his office is collaborating with the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP), he is not happy with the pace at which they are working together.
Speaking to the media on Wednesday, October 22, Dr Dominic Ayine, “Yes, we are collaborating. Maybe the pace of collaboration is not something that I am happy about, and I don’t think that Ghanaians are also happy about the pace at which we are collaborating.
But yes, the office of the special prosecutor and my office are collaborating”.
He further explained that Ghana cannot formally request the extradition of former Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta from the United States without a docket from the OSP.
Dr Dominic Ayine explained, “When doing extradition, you cannot request unless you have a solid case — a docket that has been built. And in the case of the Americans, the practice is for you to have filed charges”.
Without a docket, we cannot make the request. So we are still waiting for the docket. That is all I can say for now.
I respect the autonomy of the Office of the Special Prosecutor, but we in the Attorney General’s Department cannot begin an extradition request with a bare letter. We need the evidence to be able to do so,” he noted.
His comment came after Dr Justice Srem-Sai, the Deputy Attorney General, revealed that the Office of the Attorney General has still not received dockets from the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) for the extradition of former finance minister Ken Ofori-Atta.
According to Dr Justice Srem-Sai, the AG’s office has written multiple letters to the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP), requesting more than two months now.
He revealed that the Attorney General’s Department is the only authority that can initiate and make an extradition request.
Speaking in a yet-to-be aired interview with Accra-based GHOne TV, Dr Srem-Sai stated, “Mr Ken Ofori-Atta is the subject of several criminal investigations. I think the most well-known is the one being conducted by the OSP, which we are made to believe is at an advanced stage where extradition may be required.
Indeed, the OSP has already put a Red Alert notice on him. But the INTERPOL alert is not an extradition procedure. If we really want the person to come, formal steps must be taken,” he said.
He further detailed, “I want to make this clear; we [the Attorney General’s Department] are the only authority that can initiate and make an extradition request, but we need the investigative docket from the OSP to do so. As of today, we still don’t have the docket, despite sending several requests, including written letters and formal demands”.
“It’s been two months, and we still have not received the docket from the OSP. Without the docket, you cannot approach the American authorities to initiate the extradition,” Dr Srem-Sai said.
Meanwhile, the OSP has come clean on the extradition of former finance minister Ken Ofori-Atta from the United States following the Deputy Attorney General, Dr Justice Srem-Sai’s remarks.
According to the OSP, they informed the Attorney General that their office was in the process of compiling the various dockets on Ken Ofori-Atta.
In a statement issued on Monday, October 20, 2025, the OSP detailed, “The Office considers it necessary to provide factual clarity on this matter, reaffirm the procedural steps already undertaken, and address security concerns arising from a recent leak of highly sensitive communications that pose grave risks to ongoing investigations and the safety of OSP personnel.”
“Mr Ofori-Atta, who left the jurisdiction in January 2025, has by his actions shown clearly that he is unwilling to voluntarily return to the jurisdiction to attend the OSP,” the statement read.
The OSP statement further added, “The Office has since successfully defended several applications filed by Mr Ofori-Atta in Ghanaian courts, in attempts to have his name removed from the List of Wanted Persons”.
“The Chief of Staff duly transmitted the OSP’s extradition request to the Attorney General on June 3, 2025. The process goes through the Attorney General because his department is the Central Authority for such requests under the Mutual Legal Assistance arrangement. By a letter dated June 13, 2025, the Attorney General informed the Special Prosecutor of the transmission by the Chief of Staff of the OSP’s extradition request,” the OSP said.
It clarified, “In respect of the request for a copy of the docket, the Special Prosecutor informed the Attorney General that the OSP was in the process of compiling the various dockets on the subject”.
The OSP maintained that it has “lawfully commenced steps to secure his extradition to Ghana under international legal and diplomatic frameworks”.