The Supreme Court has dismissed a review application filed by Kenneth Kwabena Agyei Kuranchie, Editor-in-Chief of the Daily Searchlight Newspaper, seeking to challenge the constitutionality of the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP).
The nine-member panel, presided over by Chief Justice Gertrude Sackey Torkornoo, ruled that Kuranchie’s application did not meet the threshold for a review of the Court’s earlier directive.
Kuranchie had initially filed a writ in 2023 seeking to declare the OSP unconstitutional but withdrew the case nine months later without submitting a required statement of case.
The Supreme Court subsequently struck out the writ, denying him liberty to reapply.
Dissatisfied with this decision, Kuranchie filed for a review, arguing that the directive was unconstitutional and constituted a miscarriage of justice.
However, the Court, after hearing submissions from Kuranchie and legal representatives from the Attorney General’s Office and the OSP, dismissed the review application, describing it as an abuse of process.
Chief Justice Torkornoo, along with eight other justices, deferred the full reasoning for the dismissal to December 20, 2024.
The ruling solidifies the legal standing of the Special Prosecutor Act, which Kuranchie sought to annul, arguing it contravenes several constitutional provisions.
The Act establishes the OSP as a specialized agency to investigate and prosecute corruption-related offenses.
