Private legal practitioner Martin Kpebu is calling for the immediate resignation of Special Prosecutor Kissi Agyebeng.<\/p>\n
He says the conduct of the Special Prosecutor in the high-profile Ken Ofori-Atta case shows a failure of duty and a breach of public trust.<\/p>\n
Speaking on Joy News\u2019 PM Express on Wednesday, vociferous Kpebu said he had been invited by the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) but stressed he was \u201cnot being investigated for any offence at all.\u201d<\/p>\n
He said the office only wanted him to clarify comments he had made, comments which he said were meant \u201cto help the corruption fight.\u201d<\/p>\n
He then outlined the basis of his criticism.<\/p>\n
According to him, \u201cthe most salient\u201d point is that \u201cby now, the Special Prosecutor himself should have resigned.\u201d<\/p>\n
He said the OSP had \u201cfinally come to confess\u2026 on November 5\u201d that before former Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta travelled, \u201che, Kissi Agyebeng, intercepted the letter Mr Ofori-Atta wrote to both the incoming Chief of Staff and the outgoing ones.\u201d<\/p>\n
Kpebu said the Special Prosecutor admitted he intercepted the letter and then urgently sought support from security agencies.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe said he intercepted the letter, then he ran to the National Investigations Bureau (NIB), but he didn\u2019t get help, then ran to National Security, but didn\u2019t get help there either, and finally he ran to the Ghana Immigration Service and still didn\u2019t get help.\u201d<\/p>\n
He called it a major indictment of those institutions, but insisted the bigger failure was the Special Prosecutor\u2019s own silence.<\/p>\n
He said, \u201cWorst of all, it didn\u2019t occur to the man who had done the \u2018Ankwanuma\u2019 press conference that he should blow the whistle.\u201d<\/p>\n
He said the OSP should have \u201cinformed the people of Ghana through a press conference and say \u2018Hey, people of Ghana, I\u2019ve clear evidence Mr Ofori-Atta is about to travel out of Ghana and I\u2019ve gone to these institutions, but they are not helping me.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
Martin Kpebu argued that a public alert would have changed everything. \u201cYou know how many people would have taken steps to the airport to prevent him from travelling?\u201d he asked.<\/p>\n
He said he was at the time part of the ORAL team. He said the team \u201chad security capos like Kofi Boakye\u201d and others \u201cin the back room\u201d who could have acted if the information had been shared.<\/p>\n
Mr Kpebu insists the failure to do so is enough reason for the Special Prosecutor to step down.<\/p>\n
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