Investigative journalist Manasseh Azure Awuni has expressed critical doubts in regards to the credibility of the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP), bringing up inconsistencies within the establishment’s public statements and timelines.

Speaking on PleasureNews’ Newsfile on Saturday, December 6, all through discussions on calls to scrap the OSP, Mr Awuni stated his private interactions and findings raised considerations in regards to the reliability of the place of work’s claims.

“It is difficult to believe this office… it is difficult at this moment to just believe everything that they say,” he said.

Awuni defined that his scepticism stemmed from conflicting data supplied through the OSP, specifically referring to its probe into Strategic Mobilisation Ghana Limited (SML). He recalled that officers from the OSP contacted him previous this yr about his petition.

“Officials of that office reached out to me on the 29th of January 2025 and the call was the fact that: you petition our office to begin investigating SML, we are about to start the investigation and we think it is proper that we understand the petition.”

He stated the officers asked additional data and held a gathering on 31 January, adopted through an e mail on 6 February asking him to offer further paperwork “for the preparatory process for the investigation.”

Mr Awuni added that the character of the OSP’s requests satisfied him that no critical paintings had but begun.

“When I saw the nature of the evidence… none of the people who were major targets in the investigation was involved.”

He stated he had additionally noticed an inside OSP “diary of action,” which indicated that the place of work had documented the case previous than it publicly claimed.

“The first entry on that diary of action… was entered on the 29th of January 2025 at 12:40 p.m.”

Awuni argued that the OSP will have to have known all key individuals of pastime on the initial level.

“This diary from the OSP shows that the persons of interest are identified at the preliminary stages of the investigation.”

He added that the place of work’s failure to incorporate some people discussed in his documentary prompt that it had now not performed essential initial assessments.

Mr Awuni additionally challenged the OSP’s declare that it had stored the state US$2.7 billion within the SML subject.

“The last time Sammy Darko spoke on your show, he said the office had saved $2.7 billion that would have been paid to SML. $2.7 billion translates into GH₵30 billion.”

He defined that the contract sum he exposed didn’t fortify that determine.

“I spoke to the Special Prosecutor himself, Kissi Agyaben… and I told him that the entire contract sum for the SML, the five-year contract, was $500 million, a little over $500 million. So where did you get this $2.7 billion from?”

Mr Awuni stated the PPA letter he acquired didn’t include such an quantity.

“In my investigation, I had a PPA letter, and the letter did not in any place state the $2.7 billion that Kissi Agyaben claimed.”

He famous that the OSP later adjusted its figures to check the volume he had revealed.

“If you go to the OSP’s website now, they have come back to the same figure, the $500 million that I mentioned earlier.”

Mr Awuni concluded that those discrepancies justified rising public doubts in regards to the place of work.

“If an office of this nature is coming up with information, it is difficult at this moment to just believe everything that they say.”

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