Deputy Chief Executive of the Forestry Commission, Elikem Kotoko, says the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) must no longer exist as an unbiased establishment however moderately function as a division beneath the Office of the Attorney-General.

Speaking on Prime Insight on Joy Prime on Saturday, December 6, all the way through discussions at the arrest and detention of legal professional Martin Kpebu and the renewed requires the scrapping of the OSP, Mr Kotoko mentioned the construction of the Office used to be wrong from the start.

“I suggested over here the last time, and I want to reiterate further that the Office of the Special Prosecutor could even be created as a special unit or department under the Ministry of Justice and Attorney General, and it will function.”

He argued that keeping up the OSP as an unbiased establishment had change into wasteful and useless.

“Now we are spending millions on somebody who is moving about with military men and trying to intimidate everybody,” he mentioned.

Mr Kotoko added that concern a few of the public had additionally weakened open complaint of the OSP.

“The reason why many even fear talking about him now is that a lot of people feel they may have some cobwebs in their wardrobe. So they don’t want to go after Kissi Agyeben,” he mentioned.

He insisted that the OSP is failing in its function and harmful public self assurance.

“That is why I’m repeating here that Kissi Agyeben is a coward and what he is doing is tarnishing the image of the office,” he claimed.

Mr Kotoko mentioned contemporary movements of the OSP, in particular the arrest of legal professional Martin Kpebu, showed long-standing considerations concerning the establishment’s relevance.

“I support Parliament fully that we should scrap that office and I have maintained, because in the NDC for instance, it has been maintained that there was no need for that office.”

He mentioned Mr Kpebu’s arrest used to be unacceptable and mirrored deficient judgment.

“What he did with Martin Kpebu was the last straw to break the camel’s back… one would have thought that he, being a lawyer, would have been wise enough to know that what happened there was a no-no,” he mentioned.

Mr Kotoko mentioned that the issue used to be no longer the idea that of investigating political corruption, however the construction and scaling of the OSP.

“The Office of the Special Prosecutor, I imagine the issue isn’t with the place of business itself; it’s the character. However, my most powerful view has been that – that are meant to had been created as a division beneath the Ministry of Justice and Attorney General. Then they are able to carry out the ones purposes really well… however to have it by itself and dissipating the general public like the way in which it’s…,” he mentioned.

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