We do not trust AG to prosecute his own – NPP on AKSA energy $1m bribery deal

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AG, Dr Dominic Ayine

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has said they do not trust the Attorney General and Minister for Justice, Dr Dominic Ayine, to independently investigate and prosecute individuals caught up in the controversial AKSA energy deal.

According to the NPP, they have lost confidence in the Attorney General’s ability to handle the matter.

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They argue that the AG’s decision to discontinue or abandon a number of high-profile prosecutions involving individuals connected to the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) raises questions about the government’s commitment to accountability.

The NPP cited several cases in which the Attorney General entered a nolle prosequi, resulting in the discontinuation of criminal proceedings against members of his own party.

Speaking at a press conference on Thursday, August 14, Manhyia South Member of Parliament Nana Agyei Baffour Awuah stated, “NPP wishes to place on record its lack of confidence in the current Attorney General as far as the handling of the AKSA energy matter is concerned.

Since assuming office on January 22, 2025, Dr Dominic Ayine, as Attorney General, has been associated with or has been keen on the filing of discontinuance or nolle prosequi or abandonment of prosecutions involving persons connected with both the previous government and the current NDC administration.

“We recall in particular the Attorney General’s entry of nolle prosequi in matters including the SSNIT scandal, the Saglemi housing project case, the COCOBOD-related cases, and the UniBank case, among others. These decisions have raised serious questions about accountability, the recovery of public funds and the state in which taxpayers may ultimately bear the financial consequences.

“Against this background, we do not believe that the Attorney General can command the confidence of the Ghanaian public to independently investigate or prosecute allegations involving officials or politically connected persons of the NDC.”

The NPP remarks follows, the Deputy Attorney General, Dr Justice Srem-Sai, in a social media post who revealed that the Government of Ghana, through the Office of the Attorney General and Minister of Justice, is working with the United States (US) authorities to bring to book other persons linked to the million-dollar Turkish Power Plant bribery deal,

It will be recalled that the former TOR MD, Asante Berko, was convicted by a federal jury in the United States over a bribery and money laundering scheme linked to a power plant project in Ghana.

Asante Kwaku Berko, a dual US-Ghanaian citizen, was convicted in Brooklyn on August 6, 2026, on all counts in the indictment, following a nine-day trial before US District Judge Diane Gujarati in the Eastern District of New York.

According to information gathered, Asante Berko and others conspired to pay more than US$1 million in bribes to Ghanaian government officials to help secure a multimillion-dollar power plant deal for Turkish energy company AKSA Enerji Uretim A.S.

The shady deal centres on a power plant deal that was under development and financing between December 2014 and July 2015.

However, details provided by US court documents disclosed that several Ghanaian officials allegedly received bribes to facilitate a power plant deal during Ghana’s power crisis in 2014 and 2015.

The US court documents further indicate that members of Ghana’s Parliament were among the alleged recipients of bribes.

They disclosed that in August 2015, Berko and his co-conspirators discussed $250,000 in bribe payments to various individuals, including $46,000 to Members of the Ghanaian Parliament who had ratified the agreement between Aksa and the Government of Ghana, revealing that payment to the MPs was made by Berko himself.

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