When the ruling of a High Court regarding the prosecutorial powers or not of the Office Of Special Prosecutor (OSP) was pronounced on Wednesday it had in effect spelt the end of press conferences ahead of intended goose chasing sprees by the Special Prosecutor.
Whatever happened to his announced investigation into allegations of corruption in the recent by-election in the Ayawaso East constituency in Accra?
The good intention behind the setting up of the OSP…probe corruption and related ills… is yet to be realized and might not be.
We were blessed with long essays from the previous manager of the office which lovers of such voluminous treaties including some of us missed when he exited the place.
He was replaced by a man many loved to hate.
Perhaps Kissi the expert criminal lawyer as we have been told succeeded in three areas since assuming the reins of that office…providing contents to media entities, humiliating former public office holders and exonerating President John Dramani Mahama and his brother Samuel Adam Mahama from the $4.5million Airbus scandal.
Those whose efforts eventually led to the clipping of the wings of the Office should have considered the yeoman’s job he did for the image of the President ahead of a crucial election in 2024 and not gone ahead to request an interpretation from the court.
At a time when the Airbus admitted to wrongdoing and decided to protect suspects some of who could have faced capital punishments for the scandal in their jurisdictions, by using codes Kissi Agyebeng beat the world class investigators by deciding otherwise. That did not conceal the identities of the suspects or even the culprits…the Government Officials.
That has not earned him a reciprocal gesture from the ruling government whose minders have not relented in their resolve to as it were clip the wings of the OSP.
The realm of politics is an interesting one full of twists and turns. Once upon a time the Special Prosecutor embarked on an ambitious legal task of probing the man alleged to have financed the political project of the Attorney General. The assignment lost altitude and now gathering dust at the plush OSP. With the OSP now subservient to the Attorney General, legal scholars have a lot of explaining to make to the many unlearned ladies and gentlemen of this country of the nuances of the seismic development as Kissi Agyebeng serves notice to march to the Supreme Court to test the law.
With no sympathisers in both the ruling party and the opposition NPP, Kissi might have to fall on the neutrals, who are no longer in existence anyway.
Can we forgive him of his political trespasses during these trying times when neither the armoured cars he ordered nor endless press conferences can help him?
