Executive Director of the Ghana Centre for Democratic Development (CDD Ghana), Professor H Kwasi Prempeh, has expressed dissenting views on calls to scrap the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP).
He says nothing good will come out of it if the office is abolished.
Prof Prempeh was responding to Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin, who had said there was no constitutional basis for the establishment of the Office of the Special Prosecutor.
The Speaker had noted that Ghana only established the Office to prove a point that it was prepared to tackle corruption.
“If you recall, during the deliberation on the OSP, a number of us stated on the floor of this House that it has no constitutional basis but we wanted to signal to the world that we are going to fight corruption,” Bagbin stated.
Speaking on the floor of the House, Thursday, December 4, 2025, Bagbin emphasised that the end results for the establishment of the OSP has vindicated persons who oppose its formation earlier, noting that government cannot continue to allocate huge sums to the Office without any relevant outcome.
“At the end of the day, we have seen the results and we cannot continue to allocate that huge sums to the same office when we are not getting the results. This is one of the agencies we should be looking at,” he remarked during the debate in Parliament about the constitutionality and effectiveness of the OSP.
Reacting to him, in a Faceboom post, Prof Prempeh said “No, my good Rt. Honourable Speaker, Parliament shouldn’t. That would amount to throwing the baby out with the bath water.
“Nothing good would be achieved by so doing. It would only go to confirm one thing: That Ghana has one political class divided into two think-alike political parties that, self-interestedly, share a common enemy. Resist the temptation, Sir.”
Source: 3news.com By Laud Nartey
