Ken Kuranchie Drags Attorney General, Special Prosecutor To Supreme Court

The Editor-in-Chief of the Daily Searchlight Newspaper, Kenneth Kwabena Agyei Kuranchie has sued the Attorney General (AG) and Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) over the constitutionality of the latter

The 2024 independent parliamentary candidate is seeking to have the creation of the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) and its powers declared unlawful.

This includes the OSP’s powers of arrest, detention, freezing, and seizure, which he has described as abusive.

He wants the Supreme Court to declare the OSP as unconstitutional.

Among other things, Mr Kuranchie in his writ to the Supreme Court sighted by Citi News on Saturday, July 6 invoked the Supreme Court to declare the Special Prosecutor Act, 2017 (ACT 957) as contrary to “Articles 11, 17. (1)(2) and (3), 88. (3) and (4), 289.(2) 290. (1) (f)) and 290. (2) to (4), 12. (2) and 107 (b) of the 1992 Constitution.”
He is seeking to place the OSP’s prosecutorial powers under the direct control of the Attorney General, similar to the Economic and Organized Crime Office (EOCO), Police, and National Investigation Bureau (NIB).

The Special Prosecutor Act, which was used to establish the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) as a specialised agency to investigate specific cases of alleged or suspected corruption and corruption-related offences involving public officers and politically exposed persons in the performance of their functions as well as persons in the private sector involved in the commission of alleged or suspected corruption and corruption-related offences, prosecute these offences on the authority of the Attorney-General and provide for related matters.

Earlier, a former Special Prosecutor, Martin Amidu filed a petition, calling for Mr. Agyebeng’s removal.

However, the Chief Justice, Gertrude Torkonoo on Friday, July 5 dismissed the petition which she deemed baseless and without merit.

Find the suit filed at the Supreme Court below:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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