Special Prosecutor, Kissi Agyebeng, has firmly dismissed calls for the disbandment of his organization, asserting that such appeals lack merit and fail to substantiate claims of the outfit’s inefficiency.
Critics, including economist Dr. Michael Ayamga Adongo, have expressed dissatisfaction with the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP), arguing that its functions overlap with those of the Attorney General and other investigative bodies.
Despite criticisms, former legislator Inusah Fusieni defends the OSP, emphasizing its crucial role in the fight against corruption.
Agyebeng, during a roundtable discussion, countered the calls for dissolution, stating that a thorough evaluation revealed the lack of grounds and supporting evidence for such demands.
He said: “We hear calls, a lot of the time from very high places, that the OSP should be scrapped and that it serves no useful purpose. On another score, there have been and there are attempts to discredit the office and its principal officers unfairly and unjustly, alongside formidable resistance and pushback.”
“A careful examination of the reasons for the calls to do away with the OSP suggests that they were made without reference to the actual performance of the office in the six years of existence and that the calls are borne out of many of the teething challenges confronting the establishment of the office,” he added.