Private legal practitioner Bobby Banson, has refuted the assertion by the Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin, that the creation of the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) was an act in futility.
Mr Banson contends that since its establishment, the OSP has made positive contributions to the country's fight against corruption.
During the consideration of the Promotion of Proper Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Family Values Bill 2021, Speaker Bagbin emphasised that the OSP would not achieve any significant results in combating corruption.
He recommended the decoupling of the Attorney General's department from the Ministry of Justice.
“As for the law you passed on the establishment of the Office of the Special Prosecutor, I did tell you that it was an act in futility, you were not going to achieve anything but you went ahead and passed it,” he said.
In response to the Speaker's remarks on TV3 on Saturday, December 16, Banson called for public support for the OSP to ensure its success.
He said the failure of the OSP would be a collective indictment on the entire nation, not just the Special Prosecutor.
"It is not true that the creation of the OSP is a waste of resources. We all agree that the Ministry of Justice should be decoupled from the Attorney General’s office. However, the constitution has not been amended. So if parliament has created the OSP, I think the best we can all do is to support the office to do its job for the purposes it was created."
"If the office fails, it’s not an indictment on the person manning the office but all of us as citizens. So I don’t agree that the creation of the office was a needless creation."
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