Legal practitioner, Martin Luther Kpebu, has said the private member’s bill seeking to get the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) scrapped will aid the country’s fight against graft.
Majority Leader and Majority Chief Whip, Mahama Ayariga and Rockson-Nelson Dafeamekpor, have filed a private member’s bill in Parliament to get the Act that established the Office repealed.
This follows the recent brouhaha about the constitutionality of the OSP and its functions, generating a debate over whether the Office should be maintained or dissolved.
Speaking on the development, Martin Kpebu, who has hinted of petitioning the presidency to remove William Kissi Agyebeng as the Special Prosecutor, says the emerging trends around the issue is good for Ghana’s corruption fight.
Reacting to the petition on Ghana Tonight on TV3 Wednesday, December 10, 2025, the lawyer, who has, from previous commentaries, indicated that he doesn’t support the scrapping of the Office, but rather the occupant that should be changed, noted that the development will help shape the institution into a better one that will aid the corruption fight.
According to him, the litigation and conversations, especially with the President’s input, will drive reforms making the Office a better anti-corruption agency.
“It’s good Hon. Ayariga and Dafeamekpor have also taken it to another level and the President of Ghana has waded in, so bottom line, by the time we are done, minimum, we’ll get better reforms, so that the laws will be better, so that the fight against corruption will be better,” he indicated.
Background
Majority Leader Mahama Ayariga and his Chief Whip, Rockson-Nelson Dafeamekpor, have drafted a private member’s bill to repeal the OSP Act and abolish the Office of the Special Prosecutor.
The draft bill is yet to be presented to Parliament.
The bill came the same day President John Dramani Mahama indicated that it is too early for anyone to call for the abolition of the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP), insisting the institution still holds an important role in Ghana’s anti-corruption framework.
Speaking during a courtesy call by the National Peace Council at the Jubilee House on Wednesday, December 10, 2025, the President stressed that the OSP remains the only anti-corruption body with full prosecutorial independence.
“I think it’s premature to call for the closure of that office,” President Mahama said.
“The unique thing about that office is that it is the only anti-corruption agency that has prosecutorial powers to prosecute cases itself without going through the Attorney-General.”
He explained that public distrust in the Attorney-General’s office, because the A-G is part of the sitting government, makes the independence of the OSP even more crucial.
“People believe the Attorney-General will be very reluctant to prosecute his own,” he noted.
“But if there is an independent office like the Office of the Special Prosecutor, it won’t matter who you are, because they have security of tenure and the prosecutorial authority to act.”
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