A former Speaker of Parliament, Professor Aaron Mike Oquaye, has said that a Private Members Bill can be prepared and taken to Parliament to dissolve the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP).
According to him the state should channel its resources to strengthen the Office of the Attorney General so that it can handle investigations and prosecutions effectively.
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“Parliament can have a private members’ bill to dissolve this office if that is the situation we are going to have in this country, and then strengthen the AG office,” he said in an interview on TV3 and monitored by GhanaWeb on Thursday, December 3, 2025.
The former Speaker of Parliament also condemned the manner in which bail conditions and investigative powers are sometimes used to “show people where power lies,” insisting that such practices undermine human rights and principles of law.
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“All well-meaning Ghanaians must condemn it. Bail being used to show people where power lies is not a yesterday matter; we have known this decades ago. Bail being manipulated in this regard, there is no principle in law anywhere in a civilised country. The bail that must be justified must have landed property in the name of the person who is a suspect. Does that mean that people who don’t have landed properties can never get bail? What is this?
“These are matters of principles, issues of law, issues of human rights. Now, because they can’t get the man on what they really wanted, they say why do you grant an interview? Do you want to suppress his freedom of speech? You cannot question his granting an interview,” he noted.
The Office of the Special Prosecutor was established in 2018 as a specialised independent institution aimed at combating corruption in Ghana.
It operates under the framework of the United Nations Convention Against Corruption (UNCAC) and is designed to address the inadequacies of existing anti-corruption agencies.
The OSP has the authority to investigate, prosecute, and recover proceeds from corruption-related offense.
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