Check the statistics if you doubt OSP’s performance – Kissi Agyebeng to critics
Special Prosecutor Kissi Agyebeng has defended the performance of his office, saying its record in investigations, prosecutions, asset recovery and corruption prevention demonstrates measurable results.
He said the OSP is prosecuting 33 persons and had 79 cases at the full investigation stage as of December 31, 2025, with another 161 cases at the preliminary investigation stage.
Kissi Agyebeng also said the office had secured seven convictions and recovered GH¢8.5 million and US$2 million, in addition to movable and immovable assets, as part of its anti-corruption work.
Addressing a press conference at the OSP’s office in Accra on Wednesday, August 26, the Special Prosecutor said the institution’s performance should not be judged solely by the number of convictions it secures.
He said the OSP’s mandate also includes recovering assets, preventing corruption, assessing corruption risks and correcting systems that expose the state to losses.
“If you do this dispassionately, it will occur to you that the OSP has performed creditably. Our performance is neither shrouded in secrecy nor obscurity. We pride ourselves with openness,” he said.
Kissi Agyebeng said interventions by the OSP had contributed to savings and prevented potential losses to the state, including more than GH¢100 million saved through changes to the government payroll system.
He also cited the office’s work in the natural resources and ports sectors, as well as interventions in the Customs sector, as examples of its broader anti-corruption work.
“The OSP has saved the nation more than twentyfold the total amount of money related to its establishment, and it has thereby fully paid for and far above the resources invested in it,” he said.
The Special Prosecutor's comments come weeks after the Supreme Court unanimously upheld the constitutional foundation of the OSP’s prosecutorial mandate in a case brought by private legal practitioner Noah Ephraem Tetteh Adamtey.
The Supreme Court on July 29, 2026, dismissed the core challenge to the OSP’s prosecutorial powers and held that the Office of the Special Prosecutor Act, 2017 (Act 959), is consistent with the 1992 Constitution.
The ruling overturned an April 2026 High Court decision which had held that the OSP lacked an independent prosecutorial mandate and directed that cases being handled by the office be handed over to the Attorney-General.