Special Prosecutor Kissi Agyebeng has denied allegations of attacking the judiciary in connection to his media briefing held last year.
During a press briefing in November 2023, Mr. Agyebeng expressed discontent with the judiciary’s management of cases brought forth by his office to the third arm of the government.
In his adress, the Office of the Special Prosecutor disclosed several setbacks in cases it was prosecuting, as it warned against dismissive court rulings on corruption related cases.
“It will be absolutely of no good should it be the case that the OSP is set against the judiciary or that the judiciary is against the OSP. That will surely spell disastrous consequences for this republic, especially in the fight against corruption to the glee of corrupt persons.”
“I do not intend to sound as though I’m predicting doom but we are facing doom. With this development, it will not be long, before a suspected murderer or armed robber will boldly walk to court with the unthinkable prayer that the court should injunct law enforcement agencies from investigating him” he stated
After his address to the media, he was heavily criticized by some people.
But speaking in an interview on Citi TV’s The Point of View on January 8, Kissi Agyebeng clarified that he was only highlighting some red flags obstructing the country’s fight against corruption.
“I wasn’t looking for sympathy. Those who were responding to me negatively thought I was attacking the judiciary. I wasn’t attacking the judiciary. What I was doing was pointing out things that, in our evaluation, we thought were not right,” he insisted.
He further explained that Ghana’s fight against corruption could be compromised if such bottlenecks were not addressed.
“Maybe my demeanour suggested some frustration, but you don’t deliver sombre news with a smiling face. I was sounding an alarm that we ought to rework the way we were doing things otherwise there was this sector that if we continued on the path that we were, from my evaluation, we were going to lose the fight against corruption. I was like a gong-gong beater sounding an alarm.”
“That is my mandate as the Special Prosecutor of the republic to draw our minds to where we are in the fight against corruption, what we are doing, and we are getting it right and what we are doing that we are not getting it right, and how we ought to restructure things and reverse the negatives and highlight the positives to set us on a proper footing for the fight against corruption.”
