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Anti-corruption campaigner, PC Appiah Ofori has urged Special Prosecutor (SP), Kissi Agyebeng to dig into the public sector because there is more corruption cases there.
His advice comes after the SP disclosed that his office was investigating thirty-one corruption-related cases after a review.
Kissi Agyebeng, during the commemoration of the International Anti-Corruption Day in Accra on Thursday, 9th December 2021, said his office will in due course begin the prosecution of strong cases in the court.
“The OSP has completed a review of all the alleged cases of corruption and corruption-related offences before it. Currently, the OSP is investigating thirty-one (31) active cases, and it will in due course commence the prosecution in the courts of the cases it considers probatively strong,” he said.
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He said there is no case commenced by the OSP pending in the courts at the moment.
Kissi Agyebeng further said the office will soon begin carrying out corruption risk assessments on all major government contracts and legislations dating back to 2020.
“[We’ll carry out] an Anti-corruption risk assessment and review from January 2020 of all major public contracts, legislations, and draft legislation. This is intended to avoid toxic deals and the prevalence of judgment debts and arbitration awards,” he noted.
OSP to start ranking public institutions on corruption from 2022.
Kissi Agyebeng again said his outfit will from 2022 start ranking public institutions based on corruption perception. He said the office will rely on experts and business people through a strategic partnership with the Ghana Integrity Initiative (GII) to produce the ranking, which will be made public every December 9.
Speaking on Atinka TV’s morning show, Ghana Nie with Ekourba Gyasi Simpremu, PC Appiah Ofori hinted that per the Auditor General’s report, a lot of people in the public sector have stolen money and need to be investigated.
Although he applauded the SP for the list of corruption cases he intends to probe, PC Appiah Ofori said he should not limit himself to that because there’re more corruption cases in the public sector.
“The corruption in the public sector is more than the corruption in the private sector. He is a public prosecutor and so he can prosecute them. He is the SP for the whole country so whether private or public sector he has to arrest people when they do that,”he said.
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