The Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) has clapped back at criticisms that it has not lived up to expectations since its establishment.
In its half-yearly report released at the end of 2025, the Office said it has saved the nation 20-fold of the total amount released for its operations between 2018 and December, 2025.
“Therefore, it cannot be maintained by any form of argument that the Office has not performed as expected and that it is a drain on national resources,” it stressed.
It listed five key investigations that have saved the country a lot of money.
Among these is the 2020 assessment of the risk of corruption in respect of the Agyapa Royalties transaction.
The assessment, according to the OSP, saved the nation “billions of dollars and the potential loss of sovereignty over our natural resources”.
It expressed gratitude to President John Dramani Mahama for intervening when a Private Member’s Bill was initiated in an attempt to abolish the Office.
“The Office highly commends the President – and the nation has His Excellency to thank – for the swift and decisive call for the withdrawal of the bill.
“The President’s action stamped firmly the well-considered collective wisdom stated in the first National Anti-Corruption Action Programme in the establishment of the Office as the gold-standard independent anti-corruption agency separate from the Attorney General on the very obvious and practical consideration that the Attorney General, being a member of Cabinet and chief legal advisor to the Government is not well-suited to investigate and prosecute members of a government to which he belongs.”