Minority Leader, Alexander Kwamena Afenyo-Markin, has criticised the Government’s approach towards fighting corruption, indicating the administration’s interference in criminal cases undermines the fight against graft.
For the NPP administration’s fight against corruption, Afenyo-Markin says the creation of the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) by the Akufo-Addo/Bawumia government showed their commitment towards the fight against the canker.
According to him, their government didn’t interfere in the work of the OSP, unlike the current administration which discontinued many of the corruption cases that were running by the time they took over.
During an exclusive interview on TV3’s NewDay morning show on Tuesday, May 12, 2026, he said the fact that the OSP was able to take cases involving the administration that appointed him without any interference was evident of how committed they were towards the fight.
He cited the Fourth Estate’s investigation on the Strategic Mobilisation Limited’s (SML) revenue assurance contract with the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) which the OSP later took over.
“It is clear that Kissi Agyebeng who is the head of the institution was able to take up issues even against the very administration that appointed him,” he stated.
“However the difficulty, the NPP government did not interfere in the work of Kissi Agyebeng and the OSP. At least, the public record has it that there was no such interference by the Akufo-Addo/Bawumia administration,” he explained.
He slammed the Attorney-General for not allowing the fate of those on trial to be determined by the courts but rather filed multiple nolle prosequi to discontinue the trials.
“Then, our friends came into office, talking about ORAL and all of that. The first thing the Attorney-General did, which I think the government lost the plot was to enter a nolle prosequi.
“All those who were undergoing criminal trial were left off the hook. My thinking is that, if the government was serious about its reset agenda, they should have allowed the judicial process to continue [to] let the courts discharge them.” he added.
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