Garrulous Special Prosecutor is talking too much, he should get PRO — Dafeamekpor

Member of Parliament for South Dayi constituency, Rockson Nelson Dafeamekpor has said the Special Prosecutor Kissi Agyebeng should talk less and do more.

Speaking on Accra based Joy News today, the lawmaker stated that, the Special Prosecutor should stop talking plenty and start acting on all the numerous cases it says it is working on to boost the confidence of Ghanaians.

He advised that the Special Prosecutor get a Public Relations Officer (PRO) to handle the communications aspect of the office instead of always being in the news with trivial issues.

“I think the OSP is becoming garrulous, he’s talking too much he needs a PRO so that the special prosecutor himself can do his work. The office is turning into another usual state investigative institution and that is not the intent. Their performance must speak for itself. He should get a PRO so that some of these things can be addressed. Every time he’s in the news he’s speaking to very trivial issues,” he stated.

Another panelist on the same show, Hardi Yakubu who is the Fighter-General of the Economic Fighters League stated that there was no need for the Special Prosecutor to go public on cases it is yet to act on.

According to him, his predecessor run the office in a familiar way where a lot was said but very little was done.

He said that the office of the special prosecutor was losing credibility and so the special prosecutor has to work hard and clear that notion.

“This bit about in the coming weeks you’ll hear from me on these cases; I don’t really see the point in that. Why can’t the special prosecutor just tell us that these are the actions that have been taken so far or wait till he takes those actions and then us? I mean Martin Amidu run the office in such a way that I think that is weighing on him. He basically just wrote a lot and granted a lot of interviews and we barely saw any actions. The only action we saw was maybe his action on Agyapa. So I don’t know maybe that’s what is weighing on the special prosecutor preventing him from seeing cases through because he doesn’t want to meet the same fate,” Hardi Yakubu stated.

The office of the special prosecutor on February 14 released a statement giving details about some three cases to take action on. The three cases include that of LaBianca company limited, former Public Procurement Authority (PPA) boss, Adjenim Boateng Adjei and Alexander Kwabena Sarfo Kantanka who went after Assemblymembers to collect back bribes he paid to confirm his nomination as Chief Executive of the Juaben Municipal Assembly in the Ashanti Region.