The National Chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Johnson Asiedu Nketiah, has asserted that his government’s decision to combine the Office of the Attorney General and the Ministry of Justice was wrong.
Speaking at an event in Accra on Thursday, June 26, 2025, Asiedu Nketiah indicated that having the same person as Attorney General and Minister of Justice hampers the country’s fight against corruption.
He argued that the Attorney General, being a member of the cabinet, the financial decision-making body of the government, makes it difficult for him to prosecute members of the administration who engage in corrupt activities.
“From hindsight, I think that we were wrong in combining the Office of the Attorney General and Minister of Justice. This is because you could have an Attorney General, and if he is the Minister of Justice, he sits in cabinet with his colleague ministers. All policies that are coming from the other sectors are cleared at cabinet.
“So, it becomes very difficult for that same member of the government or cabinet to now seek to arrest or prosecute his colleagues. The prosecutorial powers of the country are vested in the Attorney General, who also happens to be the Minister for Justice. So, on the one hand, he will sit in cabinet, participate in the approval of all the programmes, and when one of the programmes goes wrong by way of implementation, and you ask him to now go and arrest his colleagues and prosecute them, it becomes a problem.
“I think that we should have a separate Attorney General who, in my view, ought not to be a politician. It must be an independent expert acting as the Attorney General so that he will not rely on any political party to put him there,” he added.
Watch video of his remarks below:
We should have an Attorney General separate from the Minister of Justice, someone who is non-political and independent of the political system… – Johnson Asiedu Nketiah (NDC National Chairman) #GHOneNews #EIBNetwork #GHOneTV #NewsAlert pic.twitter.com/14qqHFzX4O
— GHOne TV (@ghonetv) June 26, 2025
I don’t see Ghana as being truly determined to fight corruption… – Johnson Asiedu Nketiah (NDC National Chairman)#GHOneNews #EIBNetwork#GHOneTV #NewsAlert pic.twitter.com/uMTPER0QSK
— GHOne TV (@ghonetv) June 26, 2025
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