Constitutional lawyer, Kwame Adofo, has expressed strong reservations about the performance of the Special Prosecutor, Kissi Agyebeng, saying he has lost confidence in his leadership of the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP).
Speaking in an interview on ABC In The Morning, Mr. Adofo stated bluntly that he no longer has “any hope and faith” in Mr. Agyebeng, citing what he described as persistent failures in delivering results expected of the anti-corruption office.
According to him, despite the high public expectations that greeted the appointment of the current Special Prosecutor, the OSP has not lived up to its mandate of effectively combating corruption at the highest levels of public life.
“I don’t have any hope and faith in him,” Mr. Adofo said during the interview, arguing that the office has struggled to secure convictions in major corruption-related cases and has fallen short of restoring public confidence in the fight against graft.
However, the constitutional lawyer was careful to separate his criticism of the Special Prosecutor from the relevance of the institution itself. He rejected calls for the complete abolition of the Office of the Special Prosecutor, stressing that the concept behind the office remains important to Ghana’s democratic and accountability framework.
“I don’t agree that we should collapse the office entirely,” he said, explaining that dismantling the OSP would amount to throwing away a critical anti-corruption tool rather than addressing its operational challenges.
Mr. Adofo suggested that reforms, stronger oversight, and possibly leadership changes would be more appropriate responses to the concerns surrounding the office, instead of scrapping it altogether.
His comments come amid renewed public debate over the effectiveness of the OSP and growing political discussions in Parliament about proposals to repeal the law establishing the office.
