The Member of Parliament for Gomoa Central, Kwame Asare Obeng also known as A Plus, says Ghana should forget about fighting corruption and scrap the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP).
The independent lawmaker argues that graft has existed since Kwame Nkrumah’s time but didn’t “collapse” the country.
According to him, the United States’ Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has files since the independence era showing how corruptible Ghanaian leaders have been over the years, and yet hasn’t collapsed the nation.
His comment is in relation to the recent brouhaha surrounding the prosecutorial powers of the Office of the Special Prosecutor.
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In an interview with the Daily Graphic, A Plus called for dissolving the OSP, leaving the Attorney-General as the sole corruption prosecutor in the country. He argued that Ghana wouldn’t end if the Office is scrapped.
“The OSP—let’s just collapse it. Let’s go back to factory settings, where we used to have the Attorney General. Let’s just forget this corruption fight and move on. Look, when you read CIA files and see the amount of money that was stolen from Kwame Nkrumah’s time till we established the OSP, Ghana—if it would collapse, it would have collapsed a long time ago.”
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