General News of 2026-09-03
Supreme Court rejected Attorney-General’s case against OSP entirely – Martin Amidu
Martin Amidu has said the Supreme Court rejected the Attorney-General’s case against the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) and upheld the OSP Act, 2017 (Act 959) in its entirety.
The former Attorney-General and Special Prosecutor made the claim after studying the Supreme Court’s judgment in Adamtey v Attorney-General, which was delivered on July 29, 2026.
In an open letter, Amidu said he had read the judgment several times since receiving a copy on August 8 and had examined it to determine whether the Court had preserved the OSP’s independence or reduced it to another state agency under the Attorney-General's control.
His conclusion is that the OSP’s independent status remains intact.
“A careful reading, examination, and analysis of the Supreme Court judgement in Adamtey v Attorney-General leads to the conclusion that the Court upheld the Constitutionality of the Office of the Special Prosecutor Act, 2017 (Act 959) established bipartisanly by Parliament and assented to by President Akufo-Addo on 2 January 2018 in its entirety,” he wrote.
Amidu said the Court “refused to and did not reduce the OSP to another investigatory and prosecutorial agency under the absolute discretionary control and direction of the Government through an Attorney-General appointed and dismissible at the whims of the President.”
