Sammy Darko is the Director of Strategy, Research, and Communications at the OSP
The Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) has stated that it has saved Ghana millions of cedis by exercising its preventive mandate to identify and halt corruption risks before they result in financial losses.
This was made known by the Director of Strategy, Research, and Communications, Sammy Darko, on Sunday, December 28, 2025, on Facebook.
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Explaining the impact of the OSP’s work, he said the office has focused not only on investigations and prosecutions but also on preventing questionable transactions that could harm the public purse.
“The OSP…using its preventive powers,” he noted, has played a critical role in protecting national resources.
He cited the now-suspended Agyapa Royalties deal as a major example of effective intervention.
According to Darko, the OSP raised concerns about corruption risks surrounding the transaction, which ultimately prevented its implementation.
“The OSP saved Ghana millions of cedis when it raised corruption risks around the Agyapa royalties deal.
“Those concerns stopped a bad deal that could have cost the country far more in the long run. That money stayed with Ghana, not private interests,” he said.
Darko also pointed to the planned sale of the Tema Oil Refinery (TOR), where similar concerns were flagged.
“The same thing happened with the planned sale of TOR. The OSP flagged corruption risks in a proposed partnership, and the sale did not go through,” he indicated.
He stressed that without the OSP’s intervention, the country could have lost a strategic state asset.
“Without that intervention, a key state asset would likely have been lost,” he added.
Beyond major transactions, the OSP has also helped curb financial leakages within the public sector payroll.
Darko revealed that the office uncovered ghost names despite existing Ghana Card verification systems.
“These were people being paid even though they did not exist or no longer worked there,” he explained.
According to him, removing such names from payrolls prevented continuous losses to the state.
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He concluded that these examples demonstrate the value of preventive anti-corruption measures by the OSP.
Darko’s comments follow the reopening and operation of the Tema Oil Refinery (TOR), which, according to him, was one of the institutions the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) prevented from being sold after it flagged corruption risks in a proposed partnership with Tema Energy and Processing Limited around 2023–2024.
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