OSP speaks on challenges undermining Ghana's corruption fight

The Special Prosecutor, Kissi Agyebeng, has warned that persistent attempts to weaken or abolish the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) are undermining Ghana’s fight against corruption and serving the interests of corrupt actors.

This was contained in the OSP Half-Yearly Report for 2025 released on Thursday, January 29, 2026.

Kissi Agyebeng argued that anti-corruption efforts would be more effective without what he described as “constant and needless existential battles” confronting his Office.

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"The fight against corruption would be carried out much more effectively and won if the OSP is spared the constant and needless existential battles. It serves no purpose to expose the Office to daily barrages of acts aimed at abolishing it and extinguishing its powers and mandate.

"The reckoning that these existential challenges emanate not only from actors and their associates seeking to avoid accountability but also from public official actors, including some Members of Parliament, make it all the more worrisome", it noted.

He emphasised that such actions cannot be justified as being in the national interest, noting that weakening the OSP ultimately strengthens corruption by allowing impunity to thrive.

“These actions are not and they can never be characterised...as being in the national interest as they weaken the OSP and thereby weaken the fight against corruption,” the report stated.

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The Special Prosecutor proposed the creation of a fully independent constitutional body with exclusive authority to investigate and prosecute corruption-related offences, which would either absorb or replace the OSP.

Such an institution, he said, must be insulated from political control, operate independently of the Attorney General and Minister of Justice, and be backed by enhanced powers and adequate resources.

“If the nation sincerely desires to meaningfully fight corruption, we

should embrace and implement the recommendation by the Constitution Review Commission of the creation of an independent institution firmly grounded and boarded-up in the Constitution with exclusive authority to investigate and prosecute corruption-related offences to take over or merge with the OSP

and to be independent of political control and have prosecutorial

powers separate from the Attorney General and Minister of Justice", the report added.

Read the full report below:

The Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) has published its Half-Yearly Report for the second half of 2025, in fulfilment of its statutory mandate under the OSP Act. A quiet audit of power, the report details assets recovered and blocked, key cases on trial and under… pic.twitter.com/OgA4kkRtKZ

— Office of the Special Prosecutor-Ghana (@ospghana) January 29, 2026