{"id":106502,"date":"2025-12-12T11:44:24","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T11:44:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/?p=106502"},"modified":"2025-12-12T11:44:24","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T11:44:24","slug":"osp-under-coordinated-political-attack-senyo-amekplenu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/?p=106502","title":{"rendered":"OSP under coordinated political attack \u2014 Senyo Amekplenu"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Senyo Amekplenu, a member of the NPP communications team, claims recent attacks on the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) by the Majority Leader form part of a deliberate and coordinated effort to weaken the anti-corruption institution.<\/p>\n

Speaking on the AM show, Amekplenu argued that the criticism is not isolated but reflects a broader political attempt to \u201ccripple the one watchdog they can\u2019t control.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Majority Leader\u2019s attacks on the OSP aren\u2019t accidental \u2014 they\u2019re a coordinated attempt to cripple the one watchdog they can\u2019t control,\u201d he said, suggesting there is a calculated move to undermine the independence and authority of the office.<\/p>\n

A Private Members\u2019 Bill \u2014 the Office of the Special Prosecutor (Repeal) Bill, 2025<\/em> \u2014 has been laid before Parliament by MPs Mahama Ayariga and Rockson-Nelson Dafeamekpor.<\/p>\n

The bill seeks to repeal the OSP Act, 2017 (Act 959) and return full prosecutorial authority over corruption cases to the Attorney-General\u2019s office.<\/p>\n

Debate in Parliament has intensified in recent weeks, with proponents of the repeal arguing that the OSP has failed to deliver on its mandate despite receiving significant budgetary allocations since its establishment. <\/p>\n

Others insist the office remains essential for insulating corruption investigations from political interference.<\/p>\n

Amekplenu maintained that, regardless of its challenges, the OSP remains \u201cthe only institution positioned to independently tackle public corruption\u201d and must be strengthened rather than scrapped.<\/p>\n

He cautioned that moves to abolish the OSP risk sending a troubling signal about Ghana\u2019s commitment to fighting corruption.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\"OSPSenyo Amekplenu, a member of the NPP communications team, claims recent attacks on the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) by the Majority Leader form part of a deliberate and coordinated effort to weaken the anti-corruption institution.<\/p>\n

Speaking on the AM show, Amekplenu argued that the criticism is not isolated but reflects a broader political attempt to \u201ccripple the one watchdog they can\u2019t control.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_2277560469115098_106292521332774":"","twitter_aToxNzczMzI3Njk4OTg4ODUxMjAxOw==_1773327698988851200":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[928,335,10,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-majority","category-osp","category-politics","category-popular"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=106502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=106502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=106502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=106502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}