Felix Ofosu Kwakye has clarified that the government has not received any formal request or indication to scrap the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP), emphasizing that any such decision would rest solely with the President.
Speaking on GHOne TV, Mr. Ofosu Kwakye acknowledged that citizens are free to voice opinions on public offices.
“Ghanaians are free to run commentary on public office holders and what they perceive to be their outputs. So if someone is of the view that a similar treatment ought to be admitted out to the office, they are entitled to hold such a view,” he said.
However, he stressed that the establishment of the OSP was backed by law. “As a government, as far as I sit here, the one who will call such a shot will be the president himself because the OSP’s office was created by law,” he added.
Mr. Ofosu Kwakye also explained that any attempt to dissolve or restructure the office would require legal and parliamentary procedures. “Any moves to contract [or abolish] would have to go through due process and law, and it has to go through the rigours of parliamentary scrutiny,” he noted.
On whether the President has communicated any intention to consider scrapping the office, the Deputy Communications Minister said unequivocally: “As I sit here, there’s no indication from the boss I serve, the president, that he is going to take any such action.”
He concluded by reiterating the public’s right to express views on the necessity and function of the OSP. “In terms of the right of those individuals to express their views about the OSP and the functional necessity of that office, they are entitled to those views,” he said.
