Author: Krobea

President John Dramani Mahama has requested the two National Democratic Congress (NDC) Members of Parliament (MPs) seeking the abolition of the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP). On Wednesday, December 10, the Majority Leader in Parliament, Mahama Ayariga, and the Majority Chief Whip, Rockson-Nelson Etse Kwami Dafeamekpor, initiated parliamentary proceedings through a Private Member’s Bill to repeal the Office of the Special Prosecutor Act, Act 959. This comes days after a heated debate in the House with the Speaker, Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin, also supporting calls for the scrapping of the Office. However, in an interaction with the Peace Council…

Think tank Election Watch Ghana has urged all actors, particularly the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and the New Patriotic Party (NPP), to actively participate in the upcoming rerun of the 2024 Parliamentary Elections in the Kpandai Constituency. It argued that participatory democracy thrives on inclusive engagement and that must be seen in the upcoming exercise. The Electoral Commission, Ghana (EC) on Wednesday, December 10 announced a rerun of the 2024 Kpandai polls for Tuesday, December 30 for only the three parliamentary candidates. The NPP, which won the elections last year, has protested the decision by a Tamale High Court, insisting…

Former Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has condemned the circumstances under which Parliament wrote to the Electoral Commission, Ghana (EC) to declare the Kpandai seat vacant. He says it appears the whole process has been railroaded through to have the EC set Tuesday, December 30 as date for rerun. “To say the least, I’m very disappointed with what is going on in our country,” Dr Bawumia said in an interview. “It looks like our institutions of democracy and our tenets of democracy are being undermined. “The issue of Kpandai with Matthew Nyindam is not a new issue in our democratic…

Former Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has expressed extreme disappointment in the apparent undermining of democratic institutions in the country in the Kpandai parliamentary issue. Despite an appeal process filed by the Member of Parliament (MP) for Kpandai, Matthew Nyindam, challenging a High Court order for the 2024 Parliamentary Election to be rerun, Parliament wrote the Electoral Commission (EC) declaring the Kpandai seat vacant. The EC subsequently announced a date for the election to be rerun. Both Parliament and the EC have come under criticism for ignoring the appeal process, and the former Vice President has also taken a dim…

The Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) has announced that the trial of former Finance Minister Kenneth Nana Yaw Ofori-Atta and seven others including two former Commissioners-General of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) and a sitting Member of Parliament (MP) is set to commence today, Thursday, December 11, 2025. The trial will be heard at an Accra Criminal Court. The eight persons have been slapped with a total of 78 charges of corruption and corruption-related offences regarding the government’s engagement with Strategic Mobilisation Limited (SML). Mr Ofori-Atta faces 28 counts of corruption and corruption-related offences including willfully causing financial loss…

The Chief Executive Officer of Agri-Impact Limited, Dr. (h.c.) Daniel Fahene Acquaye, has welcomed the government’s significant increase in budgetary allocation to the agriculture and agribusiness sectors from 0.5% of the national budget in 2025 to 5% in 2026, describing it as a bold step toward strengthening the sector. Speaking at the Regional Agribusiness Dialogue held on Tuesday, December 9 at the Global Dream Hotel in Tamale in the Northern Region, Dr. Acquaye noted that the new allocation, amounting to approximately GH¢13 billion, is ten times higher than the previous year’s. He, however, cautioned that without addressing Ghana’s persistent post-harvest…

The Electoral Commission, Ghana (EC) has set Tuesday, December 30 for the rerun of the 2024 Parliamentary Elections for the Kpandai Constituency. This follows a November 24 High Court ruling in Tamale and a letter of notice served the Commission by the Clerk to Parliament. Presided over by His Lordship Justice Emmanuel Brew-Plange, the High Court declared as null and void parliamentary results of the polls in Kpandai and ordered the EC to conduct a rerun within 30 days of the ruling. Consequent to this, the Clerk to Parliament on Thursday, December 4 wrote to the EC to notify the…

President John Dramani Mahama has disclosed a sustained effort by government to resource institutions such as the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) to fight corruption. Therefore, he describes as “premature” calls by a section of the public to scrap the Office. The talk about the scrapping of the Office heightened following the recent arrest of private legal practitioner Martin Kpebu at the premises of the OSP. He was there to assist in investigations over comments said to have brought the name of the Office into disrepute. The action by the OSP stirred a debate in Parliament with the Speaker,…

In a nation rich with talent and potential, it is inspiring to see young individuals excel in their chosen fields. On 10th December 2025, one of Ghana’s brightest young medical minds added yet another laurel to his already rich academic and professional resume; Dr Gideon Kwame Assan was inducted as a Family Physician Specialist. He becomes the youngest Family Physician Specialist in the 2025 cohort of Family Physician inductees of the Ghana College of Physicians and Surgeons. Before this, he had earlier in October been inducted into the West Africa College of Physicians and Surgeons. As the African proverb goes,…

Two members of the Majority in Parliament have sponsored a Private Member’s Bill to ensure that the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) set up in 2017 is abolished. “The Office of the Special Prosecutor was established in 2017 as a specialised independent body to focus on corruption and corruption-related offences,” the memorandum on the new bill read in part. “However, operational experience since the establishment of the Office of the Special Prosecutor has revealed persistent challenges, including the duplication of constitutional prosecutorial functions of the Office of the Special Prosecutor and the Attorney-General, institutional friction and jurisdictional overlap resulting…