President Akufo-Addo is the key suspect in the agenda to get William Kissi Agyebeng out as Special Prosecutor (SP), private legal practitioner, Martin Luther Kpebu, has alleged.
He says President Akufo-Addo asked Mr. Agyebeng to resign some few months ago which he refused. Mr. Kpebu has been explaining that Martin Amidu’s petition to get Kissi Agyebeng out has given the President the opportunity to remove him.
Speaking on the KeyPoints on TV3 Saturday, May 18, 2024, Mr. Kpebu admonished Ghanaians to stand against what he has described as the President’s agenda to get the SP out.
“Ghanaians shouldn’t sit quiet. We are allowed to advocate to show our support to Kissi so that it will signal to the President that he shouldn’t even contemplate that because we are seeing his hands all throughout this petition. His hands are all over the petition,” he said.
He reiterated an earlier assertion on the same show that the President himself is a candidate for prosecution and shouldn’t try removing the SP.
“He has just six months to go. He himself very soon he will be facing the law courts. Yes, Akufo-Addo himself will be a candidate for prosecution,” he added.
On the allegation about the President capitalising on Martin Amidu’s petition, he said “now Martin Amidu has served as an opportunity for President Akufo-Addo to get Kissi out. Akufo-Addo had asked Kissi to resign a few months ago. The time he was doing the ‘Ankwaanoma‘,” he said.
“Yes, I know, I also have my sources. People at the presidency, you think people are happy about the things Akufo-Adddo is doing? Yes, he asked him to resign and Kissi said no I’m not going anywhere,” he said in response to host, Alfred Ocansey’s probe if he had evidence to his allegations.
He continued that the President is orchestrating Mr. Agyebeng’s removal “because you know why, Akufo-Addo is scared that the way Kissi has shown a bit of independence, he’s shown a bit of steel, if he leaves Kissi in office, Kissi is likely to prosecute him and his appointees.”
Background
Martin Alamisi Burnes Kaiser Amidu, the former Special Prosecutor, has filed a petition for the impeachment of William Kissi Agyebeng as the current occupant of the office.
Mr Amidu alleges procurement breaches in the purchase of vehicles for the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) and abuses involving judges and the administration of justice as part of his call for Mr. Agyebeng’s impeachment.
Other allegations include violations of citizens’ rights through arrests and detentions, violations of the right to information, and improper appointments of personnel to the office.
Additionally, Mr. Amidu alleges a violation of the right to information when he requested appointment letters and salary details of all OSP staff to be put on a pen drive for him, which Mr. Agyebeng refused.
The petition dated April 30, 2024, was presented to President Akufo-Addo and forwarded to the Chief Justice, Gertrude Torkornoo, on May 6, 2024 for onward processing.
The Chief Justice, according to sources, is determining whether there is a prima facie case to establish a committee for Mr. Agyebeng’s removal as required by the Constitution in Article 146.
