The Office of the Special Prosecutor Act, Johnson Asiedu Nketia, has said, was a dead on arrival law, something he said he cautioned against prior to its promulgation.
He says the nature of the law was going to make it ineffective to achieve the intended purpose.
Asiedu Nketia has said President Akufo-Addo in a haste, established the office to deceive Ghanaians that he was fighting the canker of corruption.
He tells Nana Yaa Brefo on Onua FM Wednesday, May 22, 2024, that he was certain the law could not even arrest a fly.
“When they brought the Special Prosecutor law I said if you use this law to appoint the Special Prosecutor, the Special Prosecutor cannot arrest even a housefly. The law is not good so any appointment stemming from it would not work.
“Nana Akufo-Addo was aware the law is bad but he wanted to deceive Ghanaians that he was fighting corruption with that system. Akufo-Addo and Bawumia’s tactics of fighting corruption and ‘galamsey’ are likened to a hunter who claimed to have shot some thieves just to allow the community to stop pursuing them,” he said.
He also described President Akufo-Addo’s fight against corruption as a charade which Martin Amidu, the former Special Prosecutor, is playing with him.
His comment stems from Amidu’s petition to the President to remove Kissi Agyebeng as Special Prosecutor.
“Martin Amidu cannot be exempted from the ongoing charade because how can you claim you were forced to do certain things against your will and resigned, calling the President ‘Mother serpent of corruption’, would you have written a letter to the Mother serpent of corruption if you were Amidu?
“Didn’t Martin Amidu said he was being forced to do something to protect Finance Minister (Ken Ofori-Atta) which he didn’t for which he resigned? So the government is rather fighting the person fighting against corruption and rot. He fought Amidu and Agyebeng. The NDC has been quiet over it because we are fed up and we’ve realised that the whole fight against corruption is a charade,” he said.
Bawumia should have ended his campaign the day he said he was a driver’s mate – Asiedu Nketia
