Supreme Court ruling will keep OSP in check – Martin Kpebu

Private legal practitioner Martin Kpebu has described the Supreme Court's ruling affirming the Attorney-General's authority to discontinue prosecutions initiated by the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) as a significant constitutional safeguard that will keep the anti-corruption agency in check.

The Supreme Court's ruling followed a constitutional challenge filed by private legal practitioner Noah Adamtey, who argued that Parliament could not confer independent prosecutorial powers on the OSP because Article 88 of the 1992 Constitution vests that authority in the Attorney-General.

According to Mr Kpebu, the ruling confirms that although the OSP has prosecutorial powers under the Office of the Special Prosecutor Act, those powers are exercised on behalf of the Attorney-General.