President Nana Akufo Addo is expected to name the much anticipated Special Prosecutor some time after May 2017, Minister of Information, Mustapha Abdul Hamid has revealed.
He disclosed in an interview with Bola Ray on Starr Chat on Starr FM Wednesday, the government will lay a Bill in Parliament when the House reconvenes in May to be passed into law that will establish the Office of the Special Prosecutor.
The NPP in its 2016 manifesto Chapter 12, page 135, titled ‘Governance, Corruption and Public Accountability,’ promised to “establish, by an Act of Parliament, an Office of the Special Prosecutor.”
The party has indicated that the office would be “independent of the Executive, investigate and prosecute certain categories of cases and allegations of corrupton and other criminal wrongdoing, including those involving alleged violations of the Public Procurement Act and cases implicating political officeholders and politicians.”
Then newly elected President, Nana Akufo Addo on December 12, in an interview with BBC said his government would fight the menace of corruption which has bediviled the country.
“We have decided that we want to take the politics out of it [the fight against corruption], so that the screams of witch-hunting and others will not arise, by establishing an office of a special prosecutor or somebody who will be independent of the executive and whose remit will be to investigate and tackle issues of corruption.”
A section of the public especially some members of the opposition NDC have expressed apprehension with some asserting the office would be used to witch-hunt former government officials under the esrtwhile Mahama administration.
However, President Akufo-Addo has insisted that the office of the Prosecutor would be used to fight the menace of corruption.
Source: kasapafmonline.com
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This is why Nana Addo was voted overwhelmingly to defeat the corrupt government. The people of Ghana including some ndc supporters will welcome the persecution of the corrupt past government officials if it is devoid of witch hunting and proven to be really independent.
The special prosecutor should deal with the officials of the past government as soon as possible to serve as a deterrent to the officers of the present government. To GOD be the glory and GOD bless Ghana.
Ndc is finished. Any government can borrow money, use part of it to do or build the so called development projects and "p0cket" the rest as witnessed sadly and angrily by the people of Ghana just recently before we voted them out. I hope and pray that the special prosecutor should be truly independent and does his/her work without fear or favour. Nana Addo will be compared with Nkrumah. Corruption and mismanagement are cancerous to the development of the people of Ghana and Africa. God bless Nana Addo, God bless the people of Ghana.
...the young generation of Ghana must be exposed to the concept of responsibility and accountability, honest work and reward, sowing and reaping. To God be the Glory.