Chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Asiedu Nketia, believes that there is a need for the Office of the Special Prosecutor to be scrapped.
According to him, that office must be replaced with a career Attorney General who will have the power to investigate and prosecute issues.
This Asiedu Nketia believes will help the country in the fight against corruption.
He made this known while speaking on Accra-based Radio Gold.
Asiedu Nketia indicated that he had earlier made this suggestion to Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo before the establishment of the office, and if he had listened, the OSP wouldn’t have been where it finds itself as a toothless bulldog.
“I have been very consistent that the OSP won’t be beneficial to us as a country. You see that they are making noise about Ken Ofori-Atta, but with time it will just die out. If the Attorney General does not pursue this case, it will just turn out to be one of those cases.
What I suggest is that we should separate the Attorney General’s Office from the office of the Minister of Justice so that we look for a career Attorney General so that he can prosecute. So if you’re in government and you go against the law, you can be prosecuted; if you’re in opposition and you go contrary to the law, you will be arrested. This will mean he has the authority to do it,” he said.
“But currently, the Attorney General is a Minister, and he sits and decides on several things with his colleagues. So if there is some financial malfeasance, how can he go and arrest his colleagues? So from the beginning, I told Nana Akufo-Addo that if he wants to fight corruption, he should amend that part of the constitution. If he had done that…he knew that he would have been arrested and would not finish his tenure of office, which is why he refused to do it. But we intend to do that this is why we are amending the Constitution to get things right so that anyone who is involved in any scandal can be dealt with,” he stated on Radio Gold in Accra.
