Former president of the Ghana Bar Association, Sam Okudzeto, has criticised the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP), describing its very basis as a perilous experiment that used to be by no means grounded in necessity.

Speaking on Joy News’ PM Express on December 8, he wondered the good judgment, aim and effectiveness of the establishment, insisting that Ghana didn’t desire a parallel prosecutorial frame within the first position.

Okudzeto stated the massive query Ghanaians should confront is discreet: why used to be the OSP created and what has it accomplished?

“Sometimes someone says it is not what you think you are entitled to, it is what you can give, but it should be. So you’re asking me this question. The question is simply this: why was the institution set up? Has it achieved its purpose?”

When host Evans Mensah pressed him for a solution, he didn’t hesitate.

“I don’t assume so. That is strictly the problem that I’m looking to power right here. He hasn’t accomplished his aim since the corruption continues to be on. I see it each day. Everywhere you flip in each establishment, you notice it brazenly.

“They don’t even… they aren’t even afraid. People are not even afraid. You cross there, they usually call for cash from you to try this for you, while you already paid.”

To him, this on my own presentations the OSP has didn’t justify its life. And when requested whether or not scrapping it’s the answer, he stood organization.

“Yeah, I’m saying that that institution is not achieving its purpose. Because look at it this way, you have an attorney general’s department. Is that not correct? Yes, in that department, they have a civil section, and then they have a prosecutorial section. This one is headed by the Director of Public Prosecutions. The other one is headed by the Solicitor General.”

He stated the core purposes exist already. “Now, what’s the director of all prosecution meant to do? He’s meant to prosecute prison offences which can come with corruption, corruption-related.

“There is not anything which makes corruption anymore other from every other crime. We have direct or to public prosecution, this is his task. Why do you create any other establishment to do the similar task? That’s the entire factor.”

Evans Mensah reminded him that the OSP used to be created as a special-purpose automobile. But Okudzeto rejected the fashion Ghana followed.

“You see, somewhere else the place you may have this particular prosecutor, it way that there’s a explicit downside that has arisen, and you need that particular person to head there and clear up that downside.

“You don’t create the entire establishment for it, as we’ve performed; in the event you like, you’ll cross and seek and ask the place and the place we’ve that more or less establishment?”

He referenced multinational and native prosecutorial traditions to make his level.

“You see, the Prime Minister of England, you know what his position was before? You know how he got the knighthood? He was the director of public prosecution. Justice D. F. Anang, who became the Speaker of Parliament, was also Director of Public Prosecutions.”

For Okudzeto, the answer aligns with the ones calling for a go back to the Attorney-General’s mandate.

“That is what should have been done. But I suspect that somebody thought that corruption was too rampant in the country, and, therefore, to create an institution for that purpose was a good idea.”

He warned that the OSP turned into centred on a person fairly than an institutional machine.

“And then, of course, you appoint an individual. Don’t forget, it’s just an individual you’ve appointed. Then you are now trying to create an institution around that individual. What is the background of that? That’s the question I ask. What is his background of that individual?”

He added that the issue isn’t solved via merely naming any person to a brand new place of business. “If I am going to try and select one of the top legal luminaries and say that I’m giving him that just a different thing.”

His ultimate caution used to be blunt and stark. “I’m just saying that when you don’t train people to do a job, you think that creating institutions, particularly when they think it’s just an individual, it’s dangerous….It’s very, very dangerous.”

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