Tag Archives: Special Prosecutor

The Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) has asserted that it possesses the authority to arrest suspects of interest without a warrant. The OSP clarified its position on Twitter shortly after a Human Rights Court granted an interlocutory injunction restraining the Special Prosecutor or its assigns from arresting Charles Bissue. …

The Office of Special Prosecutor has been barred from effecting any warrant allowing it to arrest the former Secretary of the defunct Inter-Ministerial Committee on Illegal Mining (IMCIM), Charles Bissue. The court presided over by Justice Nicholas Abodakpi has also asked the OSP not to apply for a further warrant …

The Special Prosecutor Mr Kissi Agyebeng has said that as far as the work of the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) is concerned, no one is an angel to them when it comes to corruption. He said the OSP will go after anyone suspected to have engaged in acts …

Former President John Dramani Maham a is under investigation by the Special Prosecutor’s office over allegations of bribery. According to reports, Mr. Mahama paid over GHC14,203,680 to 355,092 delegates of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the party’s recently held primaries. The money, which was given under the guise of …

The Special Prosecutor has arrested four persons – three public servants and one civil servant – and charged them for failing to comply and declare sources of income in contravention of regulation 20 of LI2374. The four, Issah Seidu, James Keck Osei, John Abban and Peter Archibald Hyde are due …

The Aggrieved Nations Builders Corps (NaBCo) Trainees Association wants Special Prosecutor (SP) Kissi Agyebeng’s intervention to enable them to claim their nine-month arrears from the government.   “The leadership of the aggrieved NaBCo Trainees Association (ANTA) petition your good self as a Special Prosecutor, as a matter of urgency, to …

The Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) has charged Mr. Sumaila Abdul–Rahman, the Chief Executive Officer of the Northern Development Authority, and two of his deputies– Mr. Stephen Yir-eru Engmen and Mr. Patrick Seidu– as well as the Chief Executive of A&QS Consortium Limited, Mr. Andrew Kuundaari for conspiracy to …

The Special Prosecutor, Kissi Agyebeng says his outfit has initiated steps to investigate circumstances leading to an unnamed businessman, described as wealthy, attempting to bribe some New Patriotic Party Members of Parliament to soften their demand for the dismissal of Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta. This is contained in a half-year …

The Special Prosecutor says it has finalized investigations into two cases of corruption the office was handling. This involves allegations of the use of public office for profit against former Secretary of the erstwhile Inter-Ministerial Committee on Illegal Mining (IMCIM), Charles Bissue. The other has to do with that the …

The Special Prosecutor, Kissi Agyebeng, has expressed doubt about the country’s preparedness to fight corruption. In a presentation on Newsfile, Saturday, full of rhetorical questions, he asked, “are we ready for the fight against corruption?, from where I sit, I don’t think we are.” “We expect so much from the …