The Minority in Parliament has accused government of orchestrating the recent brouhaha surrounding the prosecutorial powers of the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP).
According to the caucus, the recent legal and political actions targeting the OSP is part of a coordinated effort meant to weaken the anti-graft institution for pursuing high-profile prosecutions.
Member of Parliament for Gushegu and Ranking Member on Parliament’s Legal Affairs Committee, Hassan Tampuli, addressing the media at a press conference on Tuesday, April 21, 2026, noted that the sequence of petitions, parliamentary moves and court actions against the OSP were not isolated events, but “political weapons” aimed at dismantling an institution performing its mandate.
“The petitions were not serious legal instruments. They were political weapons designed to harass, delegitimise, and remove from office a public servant whose crime was that he was doing his job,” he said.
The Minority’s allegations are stemming from an April 15, 2026, ruling of the Accra High Court, declaring all OSP prosecutions null and void on constitutional grounds, resulting in a debate over the future of the anti-graft agency.
The MP said the petitions submitted to President Mahama seeking the ousting of the Special Prosecutor were “coordinated and strategically timed” to create public dissatisfaction.
He indicated that the petitions had no basis, thereby being dismissed by the Chief Justice. “Three referred formally to the Chief Justice. Zero prima facie case established,” he stated.
Mr. Tampuli further alleged that the government sought to use Parliament to curtail the powers of the OSP after the petition processes failed, an attempt he said also collapsed publicly.
As part of what the Minority described as the government’s sustained strategy to weaken the institution through different legal channels, Mr. Tampuli further referenced a Supreme Court suit filed by a lawyer, challenging the constitutionality of the OSP’s prosecutorial powers, describing it as the “third phase” of the strategy.
“When you cannot kill an institution by statute, you attempt to do so through constitutional litigation,” he argued.
The Supreme Court case remains pending.
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