Ghana now has the best bet anti-corruption architecture – Special Prosecutor  

Ghana now has the perfect wager anti-corruption structure – Particular Prosecutor  

Mr Kissi Agyebeng, the Particular Prosecutor, says Ghana has now developed a strong structure to successfully struggle non-public and public sector corruption by establishing the Workplace of the Particular Prosecutor (OSP).   

In a mirrored image on the nation’s 68-year journey after gaining independence in 1957, he famous that varied frameworks and establishments had confronted gaps, making it troublesome to holistically sort out corruption amongst each private and non-private actors.  

Regardless of its personal challenges, he said that the OSP remained the nation’s ultimate institutional response to investigating and prosecuting corruption and corruption-related offences, recovering and managing property.  

The Particular Prosecutor spoke on the 2025 African Union Advisory Board In opposition to Corruption (AUABC) excessive stage Convention, held in Accra on Friday, on the theme: “Revitalising the Anti-Corruption Structure in Africa: Ghana’s Accountability Journey.”  

“The extra legal guidelines we cross, the extra individuals steal and nothing occurs,” Mr Agyabeng mentioned, attributing the canker to the nation’s imperfect anti-corruption structure, calling for a renewed political braveness in direction of corruption struggle.  

He defined, for instance, that the Fee on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) might solely examine however not prosecute, whereas the reliance of the Financial and Organised Crime Workplace (EOCO) on the Lawyer-Common made it ineffective in pursuing politically uncovered individuals.  

Mr Agyabeng mentioned the OSP mannequin offered a novel four-fold mandate and afforded the establishment the political neutrality and non-selectiveness within the struggle towards corruption, guaranteeing optimum supply of duty.  

The four-fold mandate are investigating corruption and corruption-related instances, prosecuting suspected offenders, recovering and managing property, and taking steps to forestall corruption.  

“The mannequin is just not with out its shortcomings – as is suffered by each human assemble. But now we have a golden alternative to, as soon as once more, re-tool and reshape it to suit our functions – throughout the present train of structure evaluate,” he famous.  

Mr Agyabeng cited the nation’s legal guidelines being a step behind legal innovation and technological development, issue in engagement of rich individuals  for corrupt practices, and the usage of ‘after-the-fact fashions’ as challenges to the nation’s corruption struggle.  

“The main focus must be on a system, which might stand the check of time – with this in thoughts, that whereas no anti-corruption system is failsafe, ours must be moderately in a position to face up to assault,” the Particular Prosecutor beneficial.  

He known as for a acutely aware nationwide effort to design and construct integrity into the academic system, from primary faculty via to the tertiary stage, getting ready the younger ones to forestall and higher struggle corruption.  

“We should try to vary the narrative and style our personal trigger and course by preserving the glimmer on the horizon glowing till the sunshine beckons nearer and shines overhead in a simply and affluent trajectory,” he mentioned.  

Madam Yvonne Mutepuka Chibiya, AUABC Board Member, counseled Ghana for strengthening its home anti-corruption structure, citing as laudable the general public sector accountability, institution of the OSP and the passage of the Proper to Data Act.  

She applauded the nation for being one of many first to have ratified the African Union Conference on Stopping and Combating Corruption (AUCPCC).  

She pledged the AUABC’s dedication to additional strengthening Ghana’s structure to struggle corruption, by revitalising its authorized frameworks and establishments to speed up progress in direction of an built-in, affluent and peaceable Africa.  

Supply: GNA  

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