A member of the Anti Coalition Campaign has said the call by the ruling New Patriotic Party(NPP) on the Office of the Special Prosecutor to provide a status report on work done so far are misplaced.
The party is concerned that the seeming inaction of the Special Prosecutor Martin Amidu could affect its electoral fortunes in the 2020 elections bearing in mind that the party came to power with the promise to deal with corruption with the establishment of the Office.
The NPP Director of Communications, Hon. Yaw Buabeng Asamoah at a press conference urged the Special Prosecutor, to publish a status report on the progress made thus far on investigations aimed at reinvigorating public confidence in the government and President Akufo-Addo’s resolve to fight corruption in the country.
“I can urge him to demonstrate some readiness, maybe some low hanging fruits, make some pronouncements. I think some sort of status report at this stage may help us.”
Speaking to Starr News a member of the Anti Corruption Coalition, Harrison Cudjoe said the NPP cannot single out the office of the Special Prosecutor in its lackluster fight against the menace.
“I’m surprised that the NPP is calling on him to provide this update, you are the party in government you could have gone to him and pile pressure on him to have honoured what the law says but you haven’t done that. You are now how many months into his governance and you’re now calling on him to provide this information. He should provide the half-yearly report but I don’t think the NPP is right in calling for it now.”
“What happened in January this year didn’t they know that they had to ask him to provide that information? why have they waited until now to call the OSP to act, is it because they feel that people are now saying that this government has failed the anti-corruption fight that’s why they want to absolve themselves of it and so they want to push him out there and make it look like he’s not doing his work. The government’s image has been affected already, all the corruption scandals that came up that this government has failed to deal decisively with, their image is already affected. I don’t see how pushing the OSP out here is going to clean their image,” Harrison Cudjoe added.
