Nothing useful will come out of any investigation into the Ghana – AKSA bribery deal – Martin Amidu writes

After six years of investigation by the OSP, President Mahama’s government during whose tenure the bribery transaction was hatched and operationalized is informing the public that the Economic and Organized Crime Office (EOCO) is to assume responsibility for the intended investigation of the Asante Berko-Aksa-Ghana bribery deal.

The examination of the qualitative research data available to me, my experience as a participant observer in the Ghanaian political and constitutional process which extends into decades, and my analysis of the extant data in this discourse grounds in me the sincere believe and conclusion from the bottom of my heart that nothing useful in the nature of a thorough professional investigation will come out of any Ghanaian investigation into the Asante Berko-Aksa-Ghana corruption, corruption related and other criminal offences such as money laundry deals that was consummated between 2014 and 2017 leading to the conviction of the principal facilitator of the corruption transactions, Asante Kwaku Berko, by the Unted States District Court Eastern District of New York on 6 August 2026.

On 9 August 2026, I wrote a discourse on the Asante Berko-Aksa-Ghana bribery deal in which I called on President Mahama as the repository of the executive power and branch of government to tell Ghanaians, “What happened to the OSP investigation into the Aksa bribery deal?