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OSP Act lacked checks to rein in Special Prosecutor, Kpebu says
“And that’s what the Supreme Court did by now putting the OSP under the Office of the Attorney General, so that the Attorney General supervises the special prosecutor,” he said.
Private legal practitioner Martin Kpebu says Ghana’s Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) Act, 2017, failed to provide adequate checks and balances to control the occupant of the anti-corruption office.
Speaking on Joy News’ PM Express on Monday, Mr Kpebu said it was difficult to separate the institution from the person occupying the office because the Special Prosecutor is its “number-one ambassador” and “the face of the organisation.
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